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What are Your Long Term Goals?

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#1 ·
What are some goals that you would like to accomplish in the future? What would you like your life to look like in the future?

This thread is to help encourage user to keep their dreams in mind.
 
#4 ·
1. Marriage
2. Lots of sex
3. Move
4. Climb up the corporate ladder? Financial security

Yes. I wish I could put chuldren on this list but seeing that my love life is practically non-existent, I'll aim for the sex first ;)
 
#6 ·
- Eating healthy, loosing some weight and becoming stronger with workouts and strength training
- Become very skilled at Art
- Learning 3D software and Zbrush
- Making a living as a freelancer in graphic design, illustration and concept art
- Writing novels and short stories
- Traveling
- Making new friends who understand me
- being confident, carefree and happy

...too optimistic goals, right?
 
#8 ·
~ Get my SA down to a manageable level
~ Have some type of income coming in
~ Get my sleeve tattoo I've always wanted
~ Get a girlfriend with pretty eyes

I seriously doubt any of this will happen but here's hoping for the best.
 
#9 ·
- Get down to a Size 4 dress size (i.e. lose 20 pounds and keep it off!)
- to maintain a healthy lifestyle, and to do it for myself, not for anyone else, or to get guys to like me.(working out 1/2 an hour each day/eat healthier)
- Get to a point where I'm more confident in my social skills and don't beat myself up about it when I mess up in conversation
- Get to a point where I'm comfortable with my body and stop loathing/despising it
-Reach a point where I'm happy with myself/my hobbies/interests(i.e. love myself) so that I DON'T NEED a man in my life to love me to feel good about myself- that is when I would actually be ready to have someone in my life.
- To strengthen my faith in God and to know for sure what I believe in
 
#10 ·
* Get my degree. I already have a POA in place, I just need to do it.
* Lose 20 pounds
* Save up $500
 
#67 ·
What this guy said.

I really want to see my kids grow up, to see them graduate hs and college, to see them happy.

Life goals change as you get older. I know that one of the things everyone has to do eventually is bury their parents. It's not something anyone thinks about but it is a part of life. My mom is in really bad physical health, it's been declining for the last twenty years or so. I honestly don't know how I'm going to get through that stage of my life. But I guess I will, when it gets here, I will get through it somehow. That really worries me. I never had a relationship with her (she was my abuser). And I cannot even think about my dad passing away. But it's going to happen.

I just want to be healthy, and get better at handling my anxiety and depression. I'm so tired of dealing with it all, I've been dealing with it for my entire life, ffs.

I hope when my kids get older they still remember me lol, they still come around to visit once in a while. They're always going to be my whole world.
 
#14 ·
In only a relative order of events:

  • Get healthier, physically.
  • Get a life partner.
  • Finish my Paramedic license
  • Get some good work experience that will make me a good candidate for Paramedicine in a place of beauty (doesn't matter which country or location).
  • Get some land in a beautiful place within a reasonable drive to "civilization" Vistas and some water would be ideal.

I know I'm not cut out for urban living and the whole heavy social scene. Whether it's going to end up as little ole' me, or hopefully with someone else, I just want to be able to be immersed in some natural beauty in an otherwise ugly world.
 
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#18 ·
1) A large collection of writing, preferably published but potentially polished and self-published for niche audiences.

2) Get and stay in shape. Keep junk food to a minimum.

3) Reasonably secure job in a field I like.

4) Commandeer one of the programmers I talk to into being half the development for an indie game.

5) Become a polymath.

6) Speak a second language fluently.

7) Teach day classes or tutor people in English, math, or something else.
 
#21 ·
Long term goal: being myself, making more than 1 friend, getting a (stable) gf, pursuing my passion as my career, landscape photography that is. Ideal life would be traveling the world with 2-3 friends and my gf, taking pictures of every place as I move from A to B, to C and so on.

In one word: living a happy fulfilling life.
 
#22 ·
Build my relationship with God and get my SA down to a manageable level.
 
#24 ·
- Get a job as a Junior Developer.
- Get a girlfriend.
- Get back in shape
- Go back to Japan
- Be able to talk to someone on the street.