January Goals Thread

[dutchdisease]

This thread is dedicated to the monthly goals of the members of INTP central. It is meant to act both as a way of sharing current aspirations and as a form of motivation for the people who post their goals.

The thread will work like as follows: members will post their goals (preferably) a few days before the start of the coming month. Once the month begins updates on the level of completion of the current goal can be posted freely. On the last day of the month (or sooner if preferred) members will post a final summary relating to the success, failure, surprises, etc., etc., etc. relating to their goal.

If this thread garners a reasonable level of success a new thread will be created for the next month.

I will post my personal goals sometime in the very near future.

Have at it.

 

[QuickTwist]

Good idea, but very scary for me. I am one impulsive sob.

 

[Sinny91]

I'm an impulsive slob (sob?) too.

I quit my job this week... My friend planted the seed..
So I suppose my goals for January include getting a new job, making sure I get a new hair cut, cutting down on the weed - and smoking in general. Start getting fitter (gunna start playing basket ball).. and erm... get a new phone/or get this one fixed... go do that thing at the nurses I need to do.. Go dentist... Complete some uni obligations... Resolve my dating problems.. Avoid my family problems..


Not alot to do then

 

[dutchdisease]

Good idea, but very scary for me. I am one impulsive sob.

Understandable, I'm not much better but this year I'm really trying to make an effort to improve myself. I sort of feel as though I have too, too much time has gone by with nothing for me to show for it. For once I feel like i'm actually on track to accomplishing something of my own making.

I'm an impulsive slob too.

I quit my job this week... My friend planted the seed..
So I suppose my goals for January include getting a new job, making sure I get a new hair cut, cutting down on the weed - and smoking in general. Start getting fitter (gunna start playing basket ball).. and erm... get a new phone/or get this one fixed... go do that thing at the nurses I need to do.. Go dentist... Complete some uni obligations... Resolve my dating problems.. Avoid my family problems..


Not alot to do then

Keep us posted I'd like to know how it's going Sinny

 

[Sinny91]

Aye I will do, thanks for showing an interest

 

[QuickTwist]

Understandable, I'm not much better but this year I'm really trying to make an effort to improve myself. I sort of feel as though I have too, too much time has gone by with nothing for me to show for it. For once I feel like i'm actually on track to accomplishing something of my own making.

If I was going to come up with some actual goals for the month of January, it would look something like this: Make all my appointments, keep doing brain exercises, start volunteering at my potential workplace, be more fiscally responsible. Something like that.

 

[dutchdisease]

Officially I have two main goals. First I want to develop a good understanding of basic German. Second when school starts I want to hit the ground running.

 

[Cheeseumpuffs]

My goal for myself this month is to set a goal for myself this month.
But actually, figuring out how to spend less money on food is an admirable pursuit I might need to master.

Officially I have two main goals. First I want to develop a good understanding of basic German. Second when school starts I want to hit the ground running.

Es ist schwierig, sich Notizen zu machen, wenn Sie immer läuft.

Spoiler

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[TheManBeyond]

record the killest record ever in history of music

 

[Alias]

Officially I have two main goals. First I want to develop a good understanding of basic German. Second when school starts I want to hit the ground running.

What a coincidence, I'm working on learning German too. My other goals are to keep up with what I've been doing. Working out regularly, going for a run as often as possible, and just maintain what I've been doing right.

Never been one for New Year's Resolutions, I prefer making goals without the time of year as an excuse.

 

[onesteptwostep]

Running and exercising for a month so that I can recover from the stress damage I took in November and early December. I've also started a blog elsewhere to keep an archive on my more personal thoughts. There are couple of songs on the guitar I want to learn, so I've also been working on that.

As for what I wish I could do: study a bit of Korean and even Japanese more, and learn a BIM software. I already have Revit downloaded but can't find a source to self-teach myself. I'm also wondering whether I should spend my cash on going to art museums or buying books. Hmm..

 

[Irukanji]

100kg Power Clean
Fix handbrake in the car(crushed the pad on my thumb last time, gave up. Everything just needs to be adjusted since I left it installed)
Install extractors into the car
Remove/replace bushes in the front of the car
Change oil.

Other than that, nothing. Shit, I might not even get around to it with the weather being mad hot.

Made a start last thurs, got the bolts removed and cleaned up some less than desirable threads with a tap, everything should screw in nicely by hand and it does now. But last time I tried to put it in, I had fitment issues and ultimately wasted 2 days. This time I intend to get it to work.

 

[Absurdity]

Finish the piece I started today.

 

[nanook]

I'm in the mood for physical and spiritual detoxication. That means fasting. Can't formulate a rigid goal with something like that, the body decides ...

Other than that i always try to become more awake to possibilities anyways, basically fighting the dragon of unconscious Si routines. Which often leads to goals or visions of sorts. So i might come up with more throughout January.

It's still .... what are they called in english, Yule / Christmasstide, those days after christmas or the 12 pagan days after winter solstice. I've read that for each of those 12 days, you might divine what happens for that month of the next year. So today, 27th, is for a summer month ... but i hate superstitious divinations. Anyhow, i picture myself being healthy, lean and sporty and on a whole new level of 'openness', because i am ready to let go of some ... stuff.

 

[Minuend]

Get a job. Probably in industry/ factory/ storage.

Spoiler

Sometimes I'm filled with doubt and an overbearing sense of failure. I think in part it's a remnant from my teenage years where I was ostracized and despised for who I am, so sometimes I feel I should do something more major to have that perception of me proven wrong. And I guess one part is feeling I have failed for not being able to reach my goals and worry I'll never be able to "use my mind" the way I always wanted to.

Though, I guess in the end one might ponder if either option is truly worse or better than the other if you look to the current state of the world and such.

I think some of it is also often feeling people (in real life) are talking down to me. Like they are simplifying their words or speaking in terms where they don't expect I'd be able to follow them if they did not. Though, again this is probably part where people are used to talking like this to each other in general, though possibly there is some aspect of perceived stupidness due to my autism and awkward vocal interaction with people. I do believe I sometimes appear a bit oblivious due to the way I communicate. I might seem ok at writing here, but believe me I'm much worse and weird in real life. Sometimes I wonder if that is a testament to my uselessness.

Anyways, in the end I find the best option to keep my doubts at a reasonable level where they don't interfere with my psyche, so that's what I'm always striving for when they hit me at worst. To unify realism, pragmatism, pessimism and optimism

 

[Ex-User (9086)]

Study, until my head explodes and the coroner has to scratch my brain off the wall.

 

[Tannhauser]

Try to survive in a new city.

 

[Pyropyro]

Shed my holiday fats.

 

[Architect]

I'm too busy doing what I want to have goals.

 

[Brontosaurie]

Work on Beach Bod 2016, change as much as possible, try to remember to appreciate something once in a while though it feels very alien to do so.

Get a job.

 

[headspace]

Have sex with five hundred women.

 

[Tannhauser]

Architect: "I'm too fabulous to have goals"

 

[Brontosaurie]

Have sex with five hundred women.

In january. Fucking constantly.

 

[headspace]

Do five hundred drugs.

 

[al.otakupunk]

I guess one would be to be more active on here. I haven't been on much, but everyone on here is hella interesting, even when shit gets real.

Other than that:

- Get back on the drums. I already bought my kit, and I'm ready to rock.

- Related: start a band. The last couple of tries failed, but I'm not giving up.

- Finish my fanfic.

- Related: write an actual novel.

- Exercise more. (Read: play Burn Your Fat With Me! again because I will wipe that little asshole smirk off that bishounen's face, damn it!)

- Learn to use my boomerang.

-Last but not least: improve my brain. Do logic problems, get back on Coursera, work on my programming more, get back on my German and Japanese, etc.

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[dutchdisease]

You know, I really should have waited a few extra days before posting this thread.

 

[JPS]

- stop wallowing in self-pity
- work on screenplay
- start ADHD medication
- keep up with schoolwork
- work on a website I've been conceptualizing
- start waking up early
- get band together
- get better at guitar

 

[Irukanji]

>Install extractors into the car

Well...I guess I can't do it in January now. Got a one day reprieve from the mid-high 30's(celcius), better now than ever.

I read that INTPs are notorious for having a bajillion projects and never finishing them. Something clicked and I've been following through with them for a while. Even built a spudgun(10-year project), 2% ignition rate but it worked so whatever.

 

[peoplesuck]

occasionally go to bed at normal human times. be more efficient in my effort to learn to draw. install a light dimming dial to my lamp.http://www.intpforum.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=2688&stc=1&d=1451470182

 

[Urakro]

I have goals, but they didn't come about because it's January. The start of a New Year just coincides with my current ambitions, and it makes things easier to wait until the holiday season is over and society's system begins to operate normally again.

One of my goals is to start packing my stuff for a new place to live. This is after my application I had sent in for an apartment gets approved. As a backup plan, keep a lookout for other, better places. Lately, I've been obsessively working out a budget, (or a monthly spending plan) to keep myself in balance between living somewhat comfortably, while finding an optimal way of repaying my debts and saving. In order to pull this all off, I have to be sure I enjoy and stay at my job, or be prepared to transition smoothly into another if something unforeseen comes up.

One obstacle to all this is my neurological health seems to be plummeting down a steady decline. I'm finding paranoia is getting worse, and experiencing persistent ideas of reference that is sustaining the paranoia. I've been trying to fight it off with shifting my perceptions and using mind over matter, which works to a certain degree, but the increasingly foggy cognition and lacking of insight is trumping. In the meantime, I plan on finding some supplements that theoretically decrease brain inflammation (DHA in omega 3), and working on my diet. In the new year's, I'll probably schedule an appointment with a psychiatrist to work out a low-dose neuroleptic.

My fan in my desktop PC's power supply unit is failing, and before it destroys the whole system, I need to work out how I'm going to get it fixed. For simplicity and budget, I plan on buying a new PSU of the same model and replace it, then take the old one and see if I can replace the fan. If I'm successful with the repair, I'll return the new PSU to get the money back. This may not actually be that simple.

And then hope everything else will just work itself out.

 

[dutchdisease]

Let the games begin!

 

[headspace]

Let the games begin!

0/500 so far.

 

[headspace]

Although I have had caffeine and THC, and will likely get on the nicotine and most definitely alcohol by the end of the day so I expect to be at least 4/500 for my goal to do five hundred drugs.

Perhaps if I mix alcohol and swagger in equal parts I'll somehow manage to get going on my primary ambition for the year.

 

[TheScornedReflex]

To come up with a decent goal.

 

[Roni]

I had an embryonic new year's resolution of "something something facebook" that remains undetermined.

January goal: work out what it is I don't like about facebook and what I need to do about it.

Progress so far: have logged out of facebook with the intention of staying away a week to find out what I miss.

 

[Haim]

Keep on working on my game.
Destroy this thread.
Move to an apartment of my own,get a job and decide how/where if at all to study for a major.
Alternative with luck find a work as software developer or specifically as game developer,alternative become rich from my game,alternative some combination of them.

 

[Happy]

Cut down 2kg to go down a weight division.
Fill a sketch journal.
Get a new job.
Get a new place.
Buy that book I've been eyeing off for ages.

All accomplishable.

 

[Alias]

Oh right, I forgot to wish everyone a happy new year! Happy new year! Glücklich Januarfest! (I'm fully aware that this means January fixed and not January 1st/fest.)

 

[dutchdisease]

Keep on working on my game.
Destroy this thread.
Move to an apartment of my own,get a job and decide how/where if at all to study for a major.
Alternative with luck find a work as software developer or specifically as game developer,alternative become rich from my game,alternative some combination of them.

Care to share what that game is?

Oh right, I forgot to wish everyone a happy new year! Happy new year! Glücklich Januarfest! (I'm fully aware that this means January fixed and not January 1st/fest.)

Also Alias any German tips i'm about 10 days into it.

 

[Haim]

Care to share what that game is?

It is in very early state.
The goal/core game is to hunt the enemy spaceship,the enemy spaceship will hide and you will need to face obstacles in your way to the enemy,spaceships trying to kill you or slow you down and moving things.The idea is to create inverse sneaking game,where the enemy is sneaking instead of you.


EDIT
Currently you can move the enemy spaceship to the mouse clicking location(with an awesome dynamic obstacle avoidance :P),move the player with w,a,s,d new:and see the enemy hiding.
The game is targeted to be used with touch screens(phones) and controller(pc)
http://spaceshiphunt.byethost17.com/game/?v=alpha-0.12

Now i am working on the hiding(which is currently buggy largely working)

 

[nanook]

6th day of fasting, i am doing fine. they say fasting can bring up insights about old conditioning and i already had two of those. being 9 pound lighther is also fun, i can already get into pants that i had grown out of over 2 years ago. (4 pounds of that are waterweight)

In germany we party at Sylvester, on that occasion we say "Frohes neues Jahr (Merry new year)" or "Prosit Neujahr (Cheers to the new year)". The First of january is a holiday: "Neujahrstag" which means nothing to us but an opportunity to sleep out the rush and i am not aware of a special greeting for that day. I never even heard the word "Januarfest", which isn't even known by german wikipedia.

 

[DrSketchpad]

Become better.

DrSketchpad_2: "Overcome my lazy sack of shit part of my personality. The weight of my ego."

DrSketchpad_1:"But I thought we were cool with not being a physical part of reality, DrSketchpad! Come to the non-materialistic side!"

DrSketchpad_2:"That's great and all, but I need novelty, stimulation, REAL accomplishment. You know, that sort of thing."

DrSketchpad_1:"Ah fooey! You know all of that stuff is some weird pseudo-compromise between objectivity and subjectivity anyhow. You do remember that your only possible relationship with the object is through subjective interpretation, right?"

DrSketchpad_2:"But isn't that in itself an objective claim?"

DrSketchpad_1:"You see?! There's a bunch of bullshit like that to explore that you couldn't get in "the real world". Why don't we tell reality to bugger off and take part in the mess of visions that you'll feel is more important anyway."

DrSketchpad_2:"But haven't we basically concluded between us that the reason my wanderings feel meaningful is because of their abstracted relationship with real life things like people?"

I'm not schizophrenic,* it's just an internal monologue turned into a dialogue.

These sorts of gut decisions aren't largely based purely from my ego anyways. It's largely effected by whatever hormones and neurotransmitters that are largely effected by my diet. If you want to know my real goals you'll have a better chance of asking this jerky I'm eating. Maybe you could ask my mattress and bedroom window's lights as well (sleeping patterns).

*My mother and her father might have been however. Doesn't schizophrenia often show up in your twenties anyways? Hrmmm

 

[Pyropyro]

let's have a December 2016 recap thread when the time comes.

 

[Perfectly Normal Beast]

is there a deadline on this eek

 

[Minuend]

Only for those who don't like deadlines

 

[Perfectly Normal Beast]

oh good because i secretly love deadlines

 

[Pyropyro]

oh good because i secretly love deadlines

They secretly love you too PNB.

 

[Perfectly Normal Beast]

They secretly love you too PNB.

i'll try to resist any urges i may have to use this information to my advantage

 

[Haim]

It is in very early state.
The goal/core game is to hunt the enemy spaceship,the enemy spaceship will hide and you will need to face obstacles in your way to the enemy,spaceships trying to kill you or slow you down and moving things.The idea is to create inverse sneaking game,where the enemy is sneaking instead of you.


EDIT
Currently you can move the enemy spaceship to the mouse clicking location(with an awesome dynamic obstacle avoidance :P),move the player with w,a,s,d new:and see the enemy hiding.
The game is targeted to be used with touch screens(phones) and controller(pc)
http://spaceshiphunt.byethost17.com/game/?v=alpha-0.12

Now i am working on the hiding(which is currently buggy largely working)

link is dead.(stupid free sever)
http://spaceshiphunt.esy.es/

 

[Sinny91]

I'm an impulsive slob (sob?) too.

I quit my job this week... My friend planted the seed..
So I suppose my goals for January include getting a new job, making sure I get a new hair cut, cutting down on the weed - and smoking in general. Start getting fitter (gunna start playing basket ball).. and erm... get a new phone/or get this one fixed... go do that thing at the nurses I need to do.. Go dentist... Complete some uni obligations... Resolve my dating problems.. Avoid my family problems..


Not alot to do then

I've thus far applied for ..one job...
and cut down smoking slightly .. yay me.