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[Caz]

10. Host regular moon-viewing and tea-drinking parties.
I'm arranging this for the full moon each month and I've successfully had two of these so far. I need to make a guest list and menu for March. I just picked up some new silver tip jasmine tea, which will be great for a Spring but I need to think up a new simple dessert. I also need to send thank-you cards for Monday's celebration.

Whaaat. I want to be your friend.

[Arx]

I'm gonna open up easy with two three four goals, but I'll add more as they become apparent.

1. Learn isiXhosa. Properly. None of this pansy partial-speaking and pidgin.

2. Get into tutoring. Preferably in conjunction with the above.

3. Take singing up a notch. I'm holding steady, but not really improving. I want to get it up to 'good' or 'great', not just 'above average'.

4. Get through any one major project. Could be the experimental physics, could be something computational, whatever. Learn/improve a skill and do something awesome.

[Bauglir]

February has been a month of "The hard stuff is easy, the easy stuff is hard." Bleeeehhhh. I can do better!

[Corselet]

Whaaat. I want to be your friend.

Okay

[Tiruin]

Whaaat. I want to be your friend.

Okay

You two are awesome people (yes Caz ) and I must do my goals for later <_<

[Vector]

-snip-

[MaximumZero]

Spoiler: MaximumUpdate March 2016 (click to show/hide)

Failing Miserably | Meh | Some Progress| Good Progress | DONE

1]Make an effort to actively spend more time with my family. I don't get much time with the wife and kids, and I need to capitalize on that time.
2]Figure out a way to go on a date with the wife. Shoot for once a month at least.
3]Lose weight. Doesn't matter how much. Starting the year at 215. Currently at 202.
4]Get promoted or get a new job. Doesn't matter which. Make more money.
5]Get child support fixed. I'm paying way more than necessary. The state is doing something, but they won't tell me what.
6]Write a short story. Complete it. Doesn't need to be NaNoWriMo, just do it. Fucking DONE. No, you can't read it.
7]Programming. Make some kind of progress into understanding the arcane.
8]Buy a bicycle and ride it to work when it gets warmer.
9]Work on my game. At least a little bit.
10]Use the Ninja to make veggie/fruit smoothies that I'll actually drink. Drink no less than two per week.
11]Have dinner with friends at least a couple of times.
12]Join the local MMA gym.

[Bauglir]

Spoiler: The Year Marches On (click to show/hide)

1. Earn Master's Degree.
2. Subgoal: Maintain 3.9+ GPA
3. Subgoal: Convince POS committee to let me do my creative component in a way that involves recurrent neural networks and natural language processing.
4. Find employment for after goal 1. Don't need to be actually employed before 2016-12-31, but do need to accept a job offer (which means getting one).
5. Participate in 2016's NCAC. Doesn't count unless we make it to DC again, but we don't have to win for this goal to be satisfied. It'd be nice though.
6. Attend at least one local Cyber Defense Competition.
7. Learn Torch and use it for things.
8. Configure my pentesting/development laptop.
9. Obtain the Despecialized Edition of Star Wars.
10. Cook something vaguely healthy at least twice a week. Doesn't count unless it's got two or more vegetables in it.
11. Shave at least twice a week.
12. Read The Society of Mind and finish Plato's Dialogues.

Doing better! Still got some heavy stuff to get started on, but I'm feeling less guilty. This update may be a bit premature, but March so far has been a huge improvement on the malaise of January and February.

[Shook]

doot doooooot

Spoiler: lerpdurk (click to show/hide)

[spoiler=shoals]basically same colour scheme as you guys

1. Get used to waking up at 8AM before mid-August. And by that, i mean getting up at 8AM without my bowels being cranky as hell.
Alarm clock rings at 10AM every day now, although i don't necessarily get up when it does so. :v

2. FINISH ANGRY LASER SPACE, DAMMIT
same as before

3. Make a MAXIMUM EFFORT arting.
Fucking DING. I feel good about myself now. :v

4. get a job
Well, have gotten my first explicit rejection, so that's a start i guess?

5. Make some sort of animation that's a bit longer than 4 frames (this also kind of ties in with the above MAXIMUM EFFORT arting because i have a hard time putting serious effort into anything)
Fuckin' hard to get hold of a good animation program that doesn't cost a gorillion dollars, but i have been practicing.

6. Draw something EVERY time i'm in the "i want to art but anxiety is evilllllll" mojo. Doesn't have to be big, just SOMETHING.
Mmm, goot progress.

7. Link my deviantArt page to someone i know in meatspace, possibly my brother. (o boy this one's a scary thought)
NYET.

8. TRY MUSIC
still not yet

9. Bit of a vague one but TRAIN TO SPEAK SLOWER AND MORE CLEARLY. I stumble over my words way too frequently, and it's annoying as hell.
Not actively, but eh.

10. Earn enough dosh to afford folk high school without resorting to Parental Loan(tm).
Kind of making negative progress here due to the lack of income. :v

11. Be rid of the pain in my arms.
Getting better, slowly.

12. get used to not being on the loo for half an hour every time
Have pooped in as little time as 15 minutes, but it varies a lot. :U

So one behemoth down, that's pretty rad.

[Caz]

Self improvement is a goal in itself. Everyone who posts in this thread is a winner in my book tbh. If you tried your utmost and failed, it doesn't matter. 'Cause you keep getting up and trying again and again. You can lose a thousand battles and win the war. Just fight until you can't.

Aand I'm a rambler but the point of this post is just to say that you're good folk. As long as you keep trying.

[Arx]

So far, so mediocre. No real progress on any goals, but no regression.

[MaximumZero]

3. Make a MAXIMUM EFFORT arting.
Fucking DING. I feel good about myself now. :v

You should. That's fuckin' neat.

[Vector]

-snip-

[Tiruin]

I can't believe that the year is going by so fast.

Me too
I made a list of my goals but then I lost it, then I tried to make it again and I met a memory void or gap in between. Argh.

Spoiler: Tirigoals for edit (click to show/hide)

1. Always keep loving learning [Edit; Specify]
2. Keep connections between good relationships* [Auto; Specify]
3. Focus on studies and aim for high marks*
-- Finish undergrad thesis
-- Finish Volunteering Reformation Project Movie-making
[Edit]
4. Get informed about own financial and insurance stuff [Very much edit]
5. Keep writing in journal // Check emails regularly [Yep; Auto; Specify?]
6. Practice and grow better at art [General]
-- Aim to be able to make a card or giftart for friends by half/later quarter/end of year.
7. Keep reading novels/develop a memory catalog of novels and preferred genres [Memory/Narrative+; General]
8. Create Thank-You cards for classmates/schoolmates/instructors/past professors//teachers
9. Enjoy Summer Vacation [While having graduated well*] while keeping up with the above* and improve at least 3 skills.
10. Find medical aid for personal reasons [General; Needed]

[Bauglir]

Spoiler: Color Scheme (click to show/hide)

Black = Unstarted
Green = Succeeding
Orange = Uncertain
Red = Failing
Green Struck Through = Succeeded
Red Struck Through = Failed

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

1. Earn Master's Degree.
2. Subgoal: Maintain 3.9+ GPA
3. Subgoal: Convince POS* committee to let me do my creative component in a way that involves recurrent neural networks and natural language processing.
4. Find employment for after goal 1. Don't need to be actually employed before 2016-12-31, but do need to accept a job offer (which means getting one).
5. Participate in 2016's NCAC. Doesn't count unless we make it to DC again, but we don't have to win for this goal to be satisfied. It'd be nice though.
6. Attend at least one local Cyber Defense Competition.
7. Learn Torch and use it for things.
8. Configure my pentesting/development laptop.
9. Obtain the Despecialized Edition of Star Wars.
10. Cook something vaguely healthy at least twice a week. Doesn't count unless it's got two or more vegetables in it.
11. Shave at least twice a week.
12. Read The Society of Mind and finish Plato's Dialogues.

I know I only posted a week ago, but I scratched one off the list.