What are your goals?

[Hand of Evil]

I turn 45 this year and I find myself feeling adrift, so my goal is to find some focus in my life.

 

[Angel Tarragon]

1) Get my butt back to college (this hould be easy, my parents will be paying for my first semester)

2) Read more novels. Lately I find my self bored with the selection of books that I have, but at least 50% of them remain unread.

3) Write an adventure that sses the light of day in Dungeon magazine.

4) Start work on a novel of my creation. Not sure what to call it though. It is about 4 Dwarves trying to survive in the frostfell.

 

[Rel]

Wife? Kids? Bah! I desire nothing less than the absolute subjugation of this planet and all of its people.

Yeah...that sounds like a lot of work. I found that when I gave up on subjugating the world I had a lot more free time. It used to be EVERY NIGHT I was slaving away at the world domination thing. Now it's a bit more laid back:

Rel's Wife: "What are you going to do tonight?"

Rel: "The same thing I do every night!..."

Rel's Wife: "Put the child to bed, watch some bad TV, play around on the computer and then try and get into my pants?"

Rel: "Yep!"

Rel's Wife: "It's good to have goals, I suppose..."


Then again, I should have guessed from your name that you think big. So if world subjugation is really your dream, TW, knock yourself out. But, if I might make a suggestion, set some intermediate goals to help break it up a bit. Like tonight you could just subjugate your hall bathroom or maybe a corner of the living room.

By late next week you may well have subjugated the entire back yard!

 

[Henry]

But, if I might make a suggestion, set some intermediate goals to help break it up a bit. Like tonight you could just subjugate your hall bathroom or maybe a corner of the living room.

By late next week you may well have subjugated the entire back yard!

Beats poking rats in the bottom with a stick, I suppose.

My goals?

1. Pay the bills - be not a debtor to my fellow man.

2. Game often - life's too short to work all day.

3. Leave something behind, making the world better than I found it.

Past that, I'm good to go.

 

[randomling]

The big one, currently, is to stop being a financial burden on my parents. That means either dropping out of college or getting my dissertation done in record time.

Find a job I enjoy and make money doing it.

Get back to volunteering with young people, preferably the 13-19 age group, preferably doing something that's vaguely to do with education.

Re-awaken my creative side with gaming, writing, and learning to sing.

Get fitter and learn to eat better.

Improve my self-confidence.

Rebuild my social life.

 

[Desdichado]

A few things:

1. Restructure our debt again within two years (when our ARM runs out) to lower our monthly mortgage payments, and hopefully have very little else we're making payments on at that point.
2. Retire comfortably by the time I'm 55. This one may be tricky unless I really tighten my belt, but there you have it.
3. Successfully send my kids out into the world prepared to deal with it. A bit of a long-term one there.
4. Get out of Michigan within a few years. My wife prefers Texas as a destination, but we've already done Texas for years and years. I'd actually prefer one of the Rocky Mountain states like Utah, Colorado or Arizona myself. Luckily my first choice is also her second choice, and vice versa, so we'll both likely end up pretty happy whenever I do move on.
5. Write a novel. Publishing it can come later; first I just want to get it written.

 

[Desdichado]

I guess I could stand to lose 20-30 lbs. too, but that's a more nebulous goal. In other words, I have no plan to actually accomplish anything yet, unless my wife succeeds in getting the two of us to work out together. I always tell her I've got a great workout plan for the two of us, but she doesn't seem to think that counts. Apparently we're not catching the right muscle groups or something.

 

[der_kluge]

I always tell her I've got a great workout plan for the two of us, but she doesn't seem to think that counts. Apparently we're not catching the right muscle groups or something.

I told my wife the same thing! And yea, we didn't lose much weight either. Of course, when you're only "working out" once a week, it's not very helpful. And it seems like I'm always the one sweating when we're done. Someone's not pulling their weight!

 

[Ry]

Pay off my student debt, and my wife's student debt.

Live in a house, not an apartment.

Own a car. Nothing fancy - if I can one day buy a new Honda Civic, that'll be the height of my awesome.

Make my wife laugh as much in 50 years as I do now.

Have 2 kids (and a vasectomy) and raise them in a happy home (not the vasectomy).

Retire early.

Improve myself every year.

 

[der_kluge]

Rel's Wife: "Put the child to bed, watch some bad TV, play around on the computer and then try and get into my pants?"

Rel: "Yep!"

Rel's Wife: "It's good to have goals, I suppose..."

ROFL! Oh, my sides...