What are your goals?

[Bird]

Your realistic goals.

 

[Anthile]

What are your goals?

At first I was like ...

Your realistic goals.

...but then I 'd.

 

[gruesomebrat]

At first I was like ...

...but then I 'd.

My thoughts exactly. Although, I found out yesterday (well, this morning) that I have a great chance to get into a business at the ground floor as a partner. It would give me the opportunity to get some real business experience on my resume, which will then help with my long-term goal, which is to start a small manufacturing/vehicle design company.

 

[Bird]

Yeah, I thought I should specify
precisely for that reason (:

 

[dark]

What do you mean by realistic? Like what I want to do or what is more logical that I will probably achieve?

My current goal that is the later, is to learn. Nothing beyond that really.

@ gruesomebrat, very awesome goal, if you are in the US, take a page from the Germans, make a good vehicle, and learn how to make it so everyone can afford it like the Japanese do. Also move to Detroit so the Americans will shut the hell up about the car industry. Btw I love cars. If you make a cool drivers car I would buy it. Also I am thinking ICE are going to be part of the past, there was a thing I watched on television about some French making a car that ran on compressed air, which is a promising new technology in my book as long as some people get an interest in it.

 

[warryer]

Also I am thinking ICE are going to be part of the past

I don't think ICE is going anywhere. There is still plenty of room for improvement and comparable technologies are still too expensive. The output power is only limited by the properties of the materials available.

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Realistic Goals:

Start an alternative energy company. Be it geothermal heating/power, wind energy, solar thermal or otherwise. Geothermal heating/cooling is what I am leaning towards.

Unrealistic:

To be able to generate terawatts of power from geothermal. Not so unrealistic from a technology stand point but, it would cost billions.

Mining for resources on asteroids. Again not so unrealistic but, tech would have to be developed and the money invested would be unimaginable but, so would the profits.

 

[Stoic Beverage]

My goal? Find a worthwhile goal to pursue.
Though that may be classified as unrealistic.

 

[EyeSeeCold]

My goal? Find a worthwhile goal to pursue.
Though that may be classified as unrealistic.

 

[nexion]

Create a language.

And... to find more. To grow more. To discover more. I would love to no end to be able to leave no stone unturned in my search for something which I could find extremely meaningful. But, that is probably unrealistic.

 

[dark]

@ warryer, What I mean by ICE seemingly ending is the entire energy petroleum deal I keep hearing about in the US. Sure if there was an alternative non-petroleum fuel source then yeah it may stay but even BMW's ICE hydrogen car requires the hydrogen to have come from somewhere. It takes energy to make the stuff etc. So far our most common source of energy is via fossil fuels, albeit Europe is doing some major steps to go into alternative energy forms like wind energy, so hopefully after we rid ourselves of fossil fuel usages we may see some usages of alternative ICE. I know there is bio-diesel but it requires energy to make also, energy is not free unless you count fusion, which I heard they have made some advancements in cold fusion which is exciting to me. To bad I don't know enough yet to understand really in-depth, but hopefully one day I will. (According to the science program I watched there was for every 1 input of energy used, 75 output energy was made. Of course they used better wording but I don't understand statistics and stuff to explain it better.)

Also apologies for derailing this. I really didn't think I knew anything about anything new but I guess I keep up on some of the science things.

 

[gruesomebrat]

According to the science program I watched there was for every 1 input of energy used, 75 output energy was made. Of course they used better wording but I don't understand statistics and stuff to explain it better.

Hmmm, I'm not too sure about this part, dark. While I agree with the rest (about energy never being free), I do have a little trouble believing that fusion would allow us to harvest 75 times the energy we put into it. Sounds too similar to perpetual motion to me.

Bio-fuel, battery, and solar cars all have severe limitations that will be, if not impossible to overcome, then prohibitively expensive and difficult. Bio-fuel, of course, as dark mentioned, uses more energy in it's production than can be harvested from it, making it useless as a long-term solution to travel. Batteries have incredibly limited range, and while we've seen some improvement there, until we see lighter batteries capable of traveling about 500km (300mi) on a single charge, batteries don't do us any good. Solar cars are a great alternative to gas-powered cars, unless you live somewhere that has cloudy days anytime in the year, or need to go out at night. Suddenly, your beautiful zero-emission car, is actually just a beautiful art sculpture. I don't see fusion ever going into cars, as it would take up an immense amount of space in the vehicle.

However, as much as all of the fuel substitutes are not feasible options, I also disagree with warryer's assertion that the ICE isn't going anywhere. Granted, fuel alternatives are too expensive, but we're quickly coming up on the day when gas will also be too expensive an option to continue with fueled transport.

So far as I've seen, the only real long-term answer to the internal combustion engine is a return to pedal power, at least until they come up with a way to make perpetual motion work.

I think the most likely situation will be that personal vehicles, at least, convert to pedal power. When you think about it, it kind of makes sense. It's entirely possible to ride a higher-end bicycle upwards of 50-75km/h (30-45mph). It is also possible to load up a bike capable of 30km/h (~20mph) with around 150lbs of cargo. Considering that the average motorist on the road today isn't carting around anywhere near that kind of weight, I don't see there being much problem with that kind of capacity.

 

[dark]

Only problem is for areas with hill country, like where I live. No mountains just masses of little hills everywhere. If you could make it work to where there was minimal effort placed on the pedal person then yes it should work. It would consist of complex gear ratios and such much more complex than today's top end bicycles.

Well the cold fusion thing I mentioned was on a science show, don't know the name of it but it was some lab working for a space agency that achieved it.

I can't remember much about Helium-3 in fission but that is what a lot of people think will be the future. Nuclear power is the most promising power.

I really need to look this up to see if I can find it anywhere and post real stats other than my memory, I did just watch it 3 days ago and it was a new episode so it should be online somewhere.

 

[Solitaire U.]

Survive the next 20-odd years of my 'career' so I can retire and move back to the serenity and freedom of Mexico, where I intend to do nothing at all.

 

[EyeSeeCold]

Realistically, I plan to:

Find myself:

• Sustain a regular job
• Earn one or more Bachelor's degrees (or higher)
• Develop an intimate relationship
• Experience more of the world/Travel
• Create art

Enter professional life:

• Subject to change

Retire:

• Write poetry and novels
• Consume drugs
• Attend the 100th anniversary of Woodstock

Die:

• Subject to change

 

[Fukyo]

Stay alive.

 

[Required Username]

Finish college.
Become famous
use my fame to make people aware of psychological issues so there is less anger
and less bullshit in the world.
Commercialize sleep.
Start the next enlightenment period
Get socialized healthcare in America, so whenever i go to the doctor, i dont have to pay 45$

 

[EditorOne]

Keep in mind I'm almost as old as AlisaD and therefore have had time to fulfill a lot of goals. Here's the plan for the second 60 years:

1. Use the time I now have available due to "retirement" to parlay the modest stock investments I own into modest monthly increases, to help pay for my youngest son's college tuition.
2. See if it's true that profitability really does follow in the wake of excellence (the writing thing. Feel free to encourage me by buying ebooks. )
3. Continue to rehabilitate this annoying damaged knee so that I can get away when they come after me.
4. Figure out who "they" are.
5. At least book a year for the next ten years. Should have a new one up and out there in the first quarter of 2011.
6. Postpone the date at which I have to trigger Social Security (see #1) for as long as possible. Ditto the pension from my first employer.
7. Spend more time doing nothing except re-acquiring my you-must-be-a-surfer tan. (I'm not a surfer.) This is actually one of the tougher goals.
8. Re-learn the piano so I can amuse myself and annoy others in one additional venue.
9. Finally get my bachelor's degree. Now that it truly no longer matters, it seems like just the thing to do. The idea of having people look at me and shake their heads at the futility of my choices is very, very appealing.
10. Live to at least 120. Really, I just want to see how it all turns out....

 

[Puffy]

I think I'd like to write a book even if it was just for me and close friends.

 

[Trebuchet]

I love your list, EditorOne. What e-books should we buy?

Here's mine, which is kind of boring, but potentially doable.

Short term (weeks)
Finish cleaning up the aftermath of a very small slab leak in the house.
Redo the household budget for 2011.

Long term (years)
Get my daughter safely to adulthood.
Get solar panels on the roof some day.

 

[Wallflower]

I assume that in order for something to be a realistic goal, it should not only be attainable, but work to achieve some positive benefit for the holder of that goal (or for other people). So, naturally, I think of knitting.

I want to finish my scarf. Which is pretty silly, considering that by the time I finish knitting it, it'll be hot out again. Perhaps, I should re-define that goal as, I want to continue working on my scarf, in which I am also succeeding at acheiving the goal of maintaining my image. In other words, having people tell me I look like an old lady. Even further, and probably more important, by continuing to knit, I'll also achieve the goal of maintaining my sanity, by reducing the self-induced stress caused by school, in the sense that I am actually creating something useful, entertaining, and out of my own interest, rather than being forced to create a useless and boring paper for my history teacher (who is probably a sadist and will give me a B, anyway).

I find the process of knitting to be quite satisfying. I also believe it to be a reasonable goal to continue to do something that makes me happy.

 

[Audentia]

You didn't give a time-frame which makes things a little tricky, particularly since I'm a dreamer and a planner, lol.. so my goals are always being re-worked, re-planned, contemplated.

So here goes:
-2. Make time for friends
-1. Get back into great biking shape and bike miles and miles and miles every week.
0. Read the 250 free books on my family's kindle account (got a kindle for christmas, woo!).
1. Work up to being the business office manager within the company I work for and eventually executive director. Because it is a rewarding and meaningful business to work in and the people rock (I work in assisted living).
2. Finish as much school as I can and complete a business degree
3. Move to Austin or San Antonio Texas. Where I've wanted to live for some time.
4. If I like it as much as I think I will, eventually buy a home with a bit of land and grow lots of veggies and flowers. Also get a few little dwarf nigerian goats, a few ducks and chickens, and have my own small hobby farm.
5. Go to every state in the US and see all the US things I've wanted to see. And go on the ultimate best food in the US road-trip. Go to Greece, Australia, Argentina, Scotland, England, Nepal, Bahamas/Caribbean, Barcelona, Switzerland, Bali, Boracay and Bora Bora, The Seychelles, Croatia, Aruba, Chile, and a few more.
6. Find an awesome guy to spend my life with and be happy.
7. Maybe have kids or a kid or maybe adopt a kid. Not sure how that will end up.

 

[Cognisant]

-Create AI worthy of human rights.
-Achieve long term life extension.
-Become wise.
-Die satisfied.

I've already done most of the easy stuff.

 

[nyaneko]

I still haven't found something that I like. Interest hobby goal whatever...

But I just want to do whatever the fuck I want to do. (Of course I will consider the consequences) but try live without regrets... (cliche)

 

[GYX_Kid]

make a bunch of experimental rock/metal albums full of substance, then keep adding and re-polishing them until i think they're complete (while keeping them away from my competitive ex-bandmate)

spend more time in japan, bermuda and other areas

make more recipes that are better than egg coffee, patent a bunch of insane inventions

increase lots of skills, in areas such as music, adrenaline-sports like snowboarding, game design, and people

 

[EditorOne]

-Create AI worthy of human rights.
-Achieve long term life extension.
-Become wise.
-Die satisfied.

Those are good ones.

 

[Moocow]

They change every time someone raises the question, but at the moment I'd imagine...

In descending order of perceived likelihood:

-Compose music that is at least passably beautiful.
-Complete at least 3 to 5 metric fuck-tons of artwork.
-Live somewhere nicer (permanent goal)
-Learn calculus
-Remain alive

 

[Anchorite]

- Master the English language
- Become fluent in an other language (Not Spanish, it bores me)
- Get a job I enjoy
- Find a girl I don't get sick of before I even begin to date
- Live to at least 100
- Visit Rome
- Visit Tokyo
- Keep my current set of friends - and gain new ones
- Remain skeptical

 

[Architect]

This is cool, I've done a lot of these by midlife. Good worklife, good INFJ wife and INTP son, traveled the world on the company dime, got to deep study music, physics and a few other subjects, life is good.

Remaning goals are a continued deep study of computers, create consciousness in a computer.

 

[Inappropriate Behavior]

Realistic goal: Get out of bed tomorrow morning.

Less realistic goal: Do something once I'm out.

Wishful thinking: Get some writing done.

Not gonna happen: Invent FTL drive and go for an intergalactic cruise.

Realistic goal: Get back in bed tomorrow night......

 

[Girl Sweat]

So, naturally, I think of knitting.

i used to knit like crazy but not much anymore. at my old uni i made a few knitting friends in my piano studio and my piano teacher was a knitting fiend and, long story short, when she felt we were worthy, she brought us to her house and showed us her "room of yarn." she was strange. anyway maybe i'll take it up again



my short term goals: finish a few designs i've been working on. particularly this chair i've been thinking of for far too long - finalize the design and finally build it. start making music again. learn to dance.

long term goals: meet a beautiful girl. love her, take care of her. build beautiful children. most of all, build beautiful buildings (i am an architect). among other things

just all-around be as beautiful as possible

 

[yoopernation]

Short term goals ... find one more way to make a little extra money so I can stay in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. A Yooper isn't a Yooper unless he's in the U.P. I've had to work with 'city people' before, and I'm not doing it again!

Long term realistic ... go back to college to study religion, sub-atomic physics, etc.

Long term un-realistic ... start my own community here in the U.P. If you can pull your own weight and aren't a total pain in the butt, you can live there. You screw up, you get banished to Wisconsin, or sent down to live with the trolls!

 

[Polaris]

I don't really have definite goals, just vague, half-hatched ideas.

What I wish for, and kind of work towards:

Finish degree, stop procrastinating and decide on a topic for a Ph.D.

Perhaps aim for a teaching/lecturing position, whilst doing my own research. Travelling with this position would be the icing on the proverbial cake. Could travel between my home country and where I live now, ideal.

Buy a small property in the country side/down the coast where I will try my best to live in harmony with the landscape/reduce my imprint on the planet.

Perhaps be lucky enough to meet someone to share my life with who doesn't mind my quirks/eccentricities.

Aquire an animal or two.

 

[JarNew]

Become a doctor or get my PHD in whatever the fuck I can get a phd in to beat my dad's level of education

lo0ol0o0l0l :smiley_emoticons_mr

But I'm definitely going to learn another language. That seems like a popular one.

 

[gnome]

To become financially independent using music.

 

[Bunkerman]

My goals? Interesting question.

Short Term
Six pack abs
Continue rock climbing
Continue training parkour
Get back into running
Eat better, less wheat, dairy, and simple sugars.
Practice guitar daily.
Study my chess game.
Get a job for the spring.
Get my shroom grow-op up and running again (The last batch didn't germinate)
Start a Fight Club
Go to more parties (I hate them, but I don't get laid enough without them.)

I finally figured out that unless I keep myself a list of goals, I become a rather hopeless human being. Every goal I make gives me some tangible benefit, such as improved skill, knowledge, fitness, money, women, etc. They also have to have positive identities that people will associate me with.

 

[final-dimension]

To get the highest marks in my uni the next year.
To read and study about a lot of things I need to know about.
I would like to be a professor at the uni for limited time.
Start a great project or just being an amazing engineer is good enough though.
To use my time and skills that I know I am currently wasting!
To solve my self-confidence issues.

 

[final-dimension]

Even if you might think my goals are stupid,they are important to me and I am willing to achieve them.
Also I want to make a positive change in this world! This is my biggest goal!

 

[Panopticon]

I want to establish life ground. Its a very uncertain future, we have to prepare for the worse. I want to do all I can to establish as self sustainable a living as i can in the future.

That means:
- Learn all I can about alternative energy. geothermal, solar, wind, ect. Get off the grid.

- Learn to produce my own food. I have been dabbling into hydroponic agriculture, and it seems very interesting. Cheap, effective, and easy. Does anyone know about this? I'd like to learn more.

- Optimize my physical and mental health. I would like to eliminate as many toxins as I can from my diet. No more sugar, salt, and fat. Organic juicing/detoxification.Eliminate all chemical food additives, and exposures. Hopefully cure underlying disease and re align my human body with nature.

 

[nexion]

I want to establish life ground. Its a very uncertain future, we have to prepare for the worse. I want to do all I can to establish as self sustainable a living as i can in the future.

That means:
- Learn all I can about alternative energy. geothermal, solar, wind, ect. Get off the grid.

- Learn to produce my own food. I have been dabbling into hydroponic agriculture, and it seems very interesting. Cheap, effective, and easy. Does anyone know about this? I'd like to learn more.

- Optimize my physical and mental health. I would like to eliminate as many toxins as I can from my diet. No more sugar, salt, and fat. Organic juicing/detoxification.Eliminate all chemical food additives, and exposures. Hopefully cure underlying disease and re align my human body with nature.

Fascinating goals.

 

[Reluctantly]

- Optimize my physical and mental health. I would like to eliminate as many toxins as I can from my diet.

Eliminating the human race will be hard, but I think I have something you can use. Take one of these.

*gives Pan a magical item*

Good luck. Use its magic (un)wisely.

 

[Unsure]

My goals:

First of all, get over my depression, so I'll actually do all these things; and then-

Go back to college.
Hybrid a new species of rose.
Learn another language, probably Japanese or Mandarin.
Get married again, only to Mr. Right, instead of Mr. Wrong.
Write a book or two, and several short stories.
Create more art.
Learn all I can about everything I am interested in.
Move out of this country.

 

[DarkGreen]

To complete my bucket list.

 

[kinetickyle]

To be as well-rounded, worldly, and interesting as possible. It's an impossible goal, but still worth striving toward.

 

[final-dimension]

Realistic goals=goals
unrealistic goals=dreams
so I think "your goals" enough as a title.
I think I am saying stupid stuff again,sorry.

 

[Sosekopp]

a) Find more people I enjoy being with, and become friends with said people.
b) Clean my room and generally stop procrastinating.
c) Write songs that don't sound like Syd Barrett-gone-electronic.
d) Write a novel.

 

[Cavallier]

And... to find more. To grow more. To discover more. I would love to no end to be able to leave no stone unturned in my search for something which I could find extremely meaningful. But, that is probably unrealistic.

This might freak you out...just a fair warning: You remind me so much of myself from 8 years ago.

@EditorOne: I wish my parents were where you are at. They opted to spend all the money they would have otherwise put into a retirement plan into paying for me to go to college. It's a retirement plan of sorts I suppose. I love them dearly and appreciate what they've done for me but I worry that they made the wrong decision. I worry a lot. I'm an only child.

As for my realistic goals...

I'd like to become an author. I'd like to be able to make a living doing something that I don't absolutely hate on almost every level. I'd like to see Europe. I've always wanted to travel but I couldn't bring myself to "waste" the money since my parents were paying for college out of pocket and I worked all summer every summer to fill in the gaps financially.

 

[nyaneko]

This might freak you out...just a fair warning: You remind me so much of myself from 8 years ago.

I would imagine many people on this world have the similar determination. I have respect for people like you and have hope that you guys don't die out because you guys are great motivation.

 

[nexion]

This might freak you out...just a fair warning: You remind me so much of myself from 8 years ago.

Eh...? Why would that freak me out? I actually like you quite a lot.

So what happened over the course of the eight years?

 

[Jade Adagis]

Goals:

1. Write a thesis worthy of publication and finish my Master's in May.
2. Create upheaval in my career field so other people start thinking and stop doing what they do just because they did it last year (if you know what I'm talking about, you know why).
3. Fully embrace my inner INTP without having to completely hide my face in public.
4. Pick a subject for Doctoral studies and get a PhD.
5. Get the heck out of my career field if #2 doesn't come to fruition.

With regard to #2. Why did the auditor cross the road? Because that's what the audit program said he did last year.