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Author Topic: The Goals/Motivation thread: You know you want this.  (Read 3248 times)

sonerohi

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The Goals/Motivation thread: You know you want this.
« on: May 23, 2010, 09:07:44 pm »

As it says in the title. Share goals, big or small, with the community at large. Once we know what you are up to, you don't have to believe in yourself anymore. You can believe in us, who believe in you. Basically, a small group inter-blag exists right here. Right here. Right now.

I would like to start us off. I have to read a hefty Mythology book and do 5 pages of report on it, along with answering 7 typed out (like, size 6 print with no spacing) pages worth of questions on it. I also have to read a 3 part work on the second invasion of Greece by the Persians. A full 9 pages of questionings on that, along with closed note quizzes the first day of school, and a philosophical paper on a quote from the book. All this while taking my summer school courses. My goal for this right now: Acquire and leaf through the books within 3-4 days. Type the paper on the quote within a week from now.
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Re: The Goals/Motivation thread: You know you want this.
« Reply #1 on: May 23, 2010, 09:14:45 pm »

OP:C, and preparing to jump into a new town with new people in the Fall
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Re: The Goals/Motivation thread: You know you want this.
« Reply #2 on: May 23, 2010, 09:18:02 pm »

Google can't figure out what OP:C is, so I'm going to level my best guess given that we have an organization here with a similar name. Order of Preachers: ??? ?
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Re: The Goals/Motivation thread: You know you want this.
« Reply #3 on: May 23, 2010, 09:23:18 pm »

It's the bodybuilding thing I don't shut up about, Operation: Cardio

It's also a precurser to breakdancing, since I'll need a lot of upper body strengh to keep myself up with only my arms

In regards to the mythology paper binge, chug chug chug! (reading, that is)
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Re: The Goals/Motivation thread: You know you want this.
« Reply #4 on: May 23, 2010, 10:19:13 pm »

It's my goal to actually make a goal and stick to it.
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Re: The Goals/Motivation thread: You know you want this.
« Reply #5 on: May 23, 2010, 10:30:07 pm »

I've got all summer to read both books, and the reading won't even be an issue given that I've been consistently 5-6 grades above my reading level. The problem is typing out answers and expanding on them to some 16 pages worth of questions.

Also, break dancing is sweet as hell. My senior "mentor" dude does it (His name is seriously even Dorian John [lastnamehere]) and it is sweet. He got shafted though, because he was the only guy on the team. The girls made him dress like a fairy princess.

@Jackrabbit: Try harder man. You got this, you can do it!
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Re: The Goals/Motivation thread: You know you want this.
« Reply #6 on: May 23, 2010, 11:45:30 pm »

I think I just did.
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Re: The Goals/Motivation thread: You know you want this.
« Reply #7 on: May 23, 2010, 11:48:17 pm »

I'm almost complete with my goal to splice my personality into multiple pieces and re-thread them all into a much better stronger cord/single personality.

As for other goals, I've entirely given up on finding a date and completing my research into guaranteeing a date (basically to help the hopeless, and do it right, for an unreasonably cheap price; reason why it cannot complete is due to a lack of a proper success. IE- a date.). Basically it was to not only fulfill a goal, but also to help others in their own similarly hopeless situations get the fuck out of them. So far, my research is only helpful to the next generation, and would require a good decade to make some use. In the meantime, I think I'll just let it rust into obscurity. It won't be relevant by then; my information has been a good decade-long project, and it has no end, apparently. Even worse, all my research has been considered "debunked". Or simply, the biggest waste of my life ever. My constant failures didn't help one bit either. It probably gave me more reason to be an elderly jackass for the remainder of my life.

Another goal is sorta a polar opposite; just for the hell of it (like most of my best work). Considering all my qualities and such ((at least as I've been beaten over the head with by everyone), you know, looks talents, etc. (same old crap)), I intend to see if it's possible to be the complete opposite of what is expected of me initially.

So to put it, if I acted opposite of what I think people would expect of me, would I still be appealing? If someone sees past it, I want them, because to be able to see past my "Bullshit" screen that I setup; they have one hell of a "bullshit" meter, and I would like to see where I went wrong. In any other case, can they handle my honesty when I reveal that I am NOT a complete loser, and am actually a really nice person?

I think I tend to have fun testing people. The results are just too entertaining and oddly useful. In a way, I think I would make an epic supervillain. Reason not a goal: Simply put, Brilliant but lazy. But even so, completely under-funded and without any staff, I can still find all sorts of opportunities for making total dick moves in a glimpse. Then again, working at a mind-numbing job with jackass customers tends to do that.

On that note, one of my more present goals is getting new work that would pay better, and require less effort, but still leave me open to other options/opportunities.

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Learning at least a level of Japanese on Rosetta Stone was a goal for a New Year's Resolution. Yeah, it didn't work out. Initially, it turned out I accidentally uninstalled it, and now I'm just either too busy, or lazy as hell. Considering my fading interest in Japan, I no longer see the point.
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Re: The Goals/Motivation thread: You know you want this.
« Reply #8 on: May 24, 2010, 12:12:17 am »

Jump to 3-kyu in the November kendo test.  Only problem with this is that I hear guys don't like chicks who can beat them up  :-\  Practicing kendo at that level involves a rather large amount of dense muscle (plus enough stamina to run around stabbing things and screaming for three hours straight).  Oh, well.  *stabbity*

Get a working knowledge of Japanese/French.

Gain beginning graduate level mathematical maturity.

Learn how to drive/be more proficient at riding a bike.

Learn all those little household chore thingies so I don't totally die.


^ These are the short-term things I want to get done before I go back to college.  There are some more long-term goals, but I don't like to think too far ahead or I get all tangled up in myself.


For the completely short-term, I have a few little projects here and there I'm working on :3  Hopefully they'll turn out well, and I'll be able to post pictures... but for now I'm going to keep those under the hood.
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Re: The Goals/Motivation thread: You know you want this.
« Reply #9 on: May 24, 2010, 12:14:08 am »

Beat the god damned exercise induced asthma.

I run like an obese chain-smoker.
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Re: The Goals/Motivation thread: You know you want this.
« Reply #10 on: May 24, 2010, 12:15:58 am »

1) Move out of my parents house this year, with a good job in tow.

2) Help my high school friend start up a successful video game company.

3) Write stories.  Short stories, novels, figure out how to motivate myself to write.

4) Permanently change the world for the better in a way that I don't currently understand.  At the moment, human lives are painful, miserable and short.  Sometime, somehow in my life, I want to change that, or open the way for others to improve on my work.  The world is trapped in a "box" that makes our lives that way, I want to blow open the top at least.  I want to improve the quality of life of the world in a spiritual way I think; improving health, lifespan, quality of life, or wealth doesn't do anything.

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Re: The Goals/Motivation thread: You know you want this.
« Reply #11 on: May 24, 2010, 06:26:38 am »

Reduce existential risks. (aka save the world)
Cause a friendly singularity.
> [S ] Ascend to metaphorical godhood.
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Re: The Goals/Motivation thread: You know you want this.
« Reply #12 on: May 24, 2010, 06:31:38 am »

Beat La Mulana.
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Re: The Goals/Motivation thread: You know you want this.
« Reply #13 on: May 24, 2010, 06:34:34 am »

Become a education minister of a third world country. Only thing that stands in my way is that politicians are complete retards and would rather give the position to someone who can't even get a second class degree in theology.

More realistically, get my first patent/publication :P
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Re: The Goals/Motivation thread: You know you want this.
« Reply #14 on: May 24, 2010, 07:12:48 am »

Reduce existential risks. (aka save the world)
Cause a friendly singularity.
> [S ] Ascend to metaphorical godhood.

Okay good, now we scale back. Just a bit.
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