-Get obsessed with comedy. Throw myself into it. -Write a stand-up set and perform it. -Continue to dominate with my improv troupe. -Write and perform some sketches. -Get back into writing all together. Submit some short stories. Slam some poetry (which I am fairly good at, according to others) -Third attempt to learn guitar. Ganbatte. -Learn a martial art. -Lose more weight, gain extra muscle for the martial arts and the following goal -Gain more dive certs. I need to make Dive Master by the time I'm out of college. -Read like I once did. I used to go through books like I breathe. I lost this habit when my workload picked up in High School, and I need it back. -Get straight A's. Mine is the intellect that shall pierce the heavens. -Declare my majors: Bio and Creative Writing. Do not listen to those who try to tell me otherwise. -Absorb more media (more anime, manga, movies and comics), expand my geekeries. -Get a girl. -Get an apartment. -Cook way more, pack a bento jar for lunch daily to eliminate bad eating choices. -Finish my 40k armies, make them orkz downrigh' orky. -Get into parkour -Find some people needing a vocalist and/or a rhythm guitarist, start jamming regularly.
-Get back into TKD, work towards my 3rd dan. -Get a driver's license -Write another novel and screenplay -Build and maintain some upper body strength, so I can... -...Get back into Parkour and be able to participate in regional jams by the time I can drive' -Get back into drum lessons, get into a regular practice schedule so I can... -...Join a band by the time I can drive -Make more friends, preferably geeky ones -Release a rap album -Get a website and host a regular webcomic on it -Graduate high school and start earning some early credits at a community college before I apply to a 4-year school
-Consume media that is in my house unconsumed (before I buy anything else) -be able to run a half-marathon in 2 hours. -find some sort of "creation" hobby that I feel like doing (and not nessarily the one you all just thought of....)
-Consume media that is in my house unconsumed (before I buy anything else)
Oh man, I'm stealing that one.
Sign me up too.
And me. So many video games unbeaten...
I've been on this plan for about seven years, and have yet to accomplish it. *sigh* At least I'm only getting new games for four consoles now, and not for the eight that I have.
I've added a new goal for 2010: Get rid of (trash the trash and donate the good stuff) all the crap that I don't really use any more. I have a closet full of crap I haven't touched in years. Time to get rid of it.
One of my goals for 2010 is to write and record an album's worth of songs, so to get myself into the project I decided to actually finish writing this one. This is a song I started writing on a beach in Ireland, back in 2006. I only just finished it today.
I never did post my plans and goals to the forum, only a link to my blog. To keep better track of the many points, I numbered them. Here's the full list:
1 - Work and travel: 1.1 - Keep working on cruise ships, though structuring the my time away better than last year to maximize time in Berlin/with friends/doing my own thing. 1.2 - I already know I'll be visiting, on various cruises, Papua New Guinea, New Zealand, India, and Dubai for the first time, along with a few other places. I may be going to Antarctica again too. 1.3 - On top of work travel, spend some frequent flier points and travel home from various gigs independently. In this way I hope to spend a week in New Zealand, and a week in Japan. 1.4 - Release my International Juggler 2009 video, the one I've been working on for the last year, which features me juggling in every country/place I visited. 1.5 - Shoot, edit, and release International Juggler 2010, a similar video as above, of all the places I visit in 2010. I have some ideas about how to make this different/better than the 2009 video, but I don't need to think about that too much for the next few weeks. 1.6 - Go to Poland. I live really close, but have never been. What's up with that? 1.7 - Go to the Berlin, British, and European juggling conventions. And a convention in September/October too. Maybe the Turkish again, maybe another. 1.8 - Spend four to six weeks in New York. I've visited the city for a few weeks, but I want to get to know the city better. I hear so many people from there talk about it, and I want to experience it all first hand. 1.9 - Maybe, if I can sort the dates right, I might go to DragonCon, to nerd out with the scifi and podcasting geeks.
2 - Juggling: 2.1 - Keep improving my solo shows and performing skills. 2.2 - Work on my Room show project, a juggling theater show. I plan to have all the set building work complete by March, and 20-30 minutes complete by May. 2.3 - Perform a short version of the Room Show at the Berlin Juggling Convention in June. 2.4 - Have an hour show finished by October, and put on a series of shows in my own home for invited audiences. 2.5 - Finish other juggling routines I'm working on at the moment. 2.6 - Run the British Young Juggler of the Year show for the sixth year. Also do a series of online workshops for those taking part, in attempt to raise the quality of the acts. Nobody has won a Gold Award yet! 2.7 - I'm in charge of the Open Stages at the EJC in Finland. That means seven or eight nights of zero stress and easy work as my superior organization skills result in everything running smoothly, and every night's show rocking. Or so I hope. 2.8 - Generally rock out playing combat. 2.9 - Beat Jochen in the final of a Fight Night 3 Club Combat tournament. I've won a tournament we both entered before, but I wasn't the one to knock him out. 2.10 - Release some more Juggling Podcasts. 2.11 - Release some interesting juggling videos on YouTube (I have a few good ideas). 2.12 - Juggle 9 clubs for 19 passes each with Pola. 2.13 - Also, depending other work commitments, I might enter Britain's Got Talent. If I do have the time, the final decider will be the question "Will this cause me any stress at all?" At the moment I have very little stress in my life, by design, so I might as well keep it that way.
3 - Writing: 3.1 - Keep writing for this blog. 3.2 - Finish editing and release (and decide on final titles for) on my two works-in-progress novels: Combat Story and Monster Story. Completion dates: January and March. 3.3 - Have another run at Human Danger (working title), the novel I began but didn't complete in 2009. I have a feeling this will be a longer-term project than just this year though. 3.4 - Research, outline, and write another novel I'm giving the working title "Arc of Life." It'll be a fantasy novel set in a world of strange creatures and magic. My fiction writing style at the moment is very much a "just get on with the plot" kind of thing, which means a lot is packed into a very small package. This works well for near-future science fiction thrillers. Writing fantasy set in a strange new world with a completely different history and landscape than our own will hopefully force me to concentrate more on descriptive scene-setting writing, rather than character, dialogue, and action. 3.5 - Start work on the final novel in the Minding Tomorrow world. 3.6 - Do an audio recording of one of my novels. As long as I keep my novels short, this could be a good way to get more readers/listeners. I'd need to buy a new microphone though.
4 - Podcasting: 4.1 - Keep reading science fiction novels and reviewing them for the Science Fiction Book Review Podcast. I also plan to review any fantasy novels I read. 4.2 - Be a guest on other podcasts. I know I'll be back on the SFFaudio podcast at some point. 4.3 - Doing some more Juggling Podcasts. I really miss the interviews I did with other jugglers. 4.4 - I'm thinking of starting a new podcast about traveling. I enjoy posting photos here on the blog, but I see and do lots of things that I never write about here. For example, I have a lot to say about a place like Punta Arenas, but it's not the kind of thing that would work as a blog post. I'm thinking of doing a trip-by-trip podcast, or just saving up enough observations and stories and experiences to fill 45 minutes, and releasing it whenever. 4.5 - If I'm going to do this, I'm going to buy a portable mp3 recorder with a mic attachment, so I can record easily while hiking across a city or up a hill. 4.6 - Thinking about that last point, what I should actually do is see if my iPhone would work just as well, as then I need to carry one less gadget.
5 - Photography: 5.1 - I have no plans for my photography. It's the only hobby I have which has no performance aspect at all (I even podcast about my reading), so there is no pressure to do anything at all. I'll just keep carrying my camera, and keep improving my skills and artistry. 5.2 - But I will try to keep posting photos to my blog. 5.3 - And I'm going to buy a new zoom lens, because the autofocus on my current (really shitty) zoom lens is broken. 5.4 - And I'll probably buy another two or three camera bags.
6 - Music: 6.1 - Write an album's-worth of new songs and record them by the end of the year. 6.2 - Write the music for Room. 6.3 - Buy a five string bass guitar and learn to rock.
7 - Other goals: 7.1 - Get better at speaking German. I plan to hire a personal tutor, as regular classes don't work with my schedule. 7.2 - Try to spend a few hours a week in the gym whenever I'm on a cruise ship. I spend way more time than that in the bars, and in the jacuzzis, and eating, and other unhealthy things. A few hours in the gym will help me keep my fitness levels up. 7.3 - Spend more time with friends. 7.4 - Make new friends. 7.5 - Have sex. 7.6 - Maybe buy a new laptop. This macbook has served me well for almost two years, but I'm doing more and more music and video and photo editing, and it's struggling a bit. I think I'll buy a full spec 13" MacBook Pro, and upgrade to a solid state hard drive for super quick load times.
8 - Consumption of entertainment: 8.1 - Catch up with Dexter. 8.2 - Watch more than the first episode of Battlestar Galactica. I've had the season 1 box set in my cabin(s) for the past eight weeks, and haven't watched a single episode. 8.3 - Play more Natural Selection and, if it is ever released, Natural Selection 2. I might need more memory for my PC though.
It adds up to 50 numbered goals.
So far: Failed - 2.25 Future Win - 22.75 In the works - 18.5 Win! - 6.5
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-Win a rap battle using verses from "It's all about the pentiums" by Weird Al.
Also, from my long list of goals; one tick.
-Don't give a fuck: Everything else
-Get obsessed with comedy. Throw myself into it.
-Write a stand-up set and perform it.
-Continue to dominate with my improv troupe.
-Write and perform some sketches.
-Get back into writing all together. Submit some short stories. Slam some poetry (which I am fairly good at, according to others)
-Third attempt to learn guitar. Ganbatte.
-Learn a martial art.
-Lose more weight, gain extra muscle for the martial arts and the following goal
-Gain more dive certs. I need to make Dive Master by the time I'm out of college.
-Read like I once did. I used to go through books like I breathe. I lost this habit when my workload picked up in High School, and I need it back.
-Get straight A's. Mine is the intellect that shall pierce the heavens.
-Declare my majors: Bio and Creative Writing. Do not listen to those who try to tell me otherwise.
-Absorb more media (more anime, manga, movies and comics), expand my geekeries.
-Get a girl.
-Get an apartment.
-Cook way more, pack a bento jar for lunch daily to eliminate bad eating choices.
-Finish my 40k armies, make them orkz downrigh' orky.
-Get into parkour
-Find some people needing a vocalist and/or a rhythm guitarist, start jamming regularly.
-Get a driver's license
-Write another novel and screenplay
-Build and maintain some upper body strength, so I can...
-...Get back into Parkour and be able to participate in regional jams by the time I can drive'
-Get back into drum lessons, get into a regular practice schedule so I can...
-...Join a band by the time I can drive
-Make more friends, preferably geeky ones
-Release a rap album
-Get a website and host a regular webcomic on it
-Graduate high school and start earning some early credits at a community college before I apply to a 4-year school
It's a good thing I have a lot of free time.
-be able to run a half-marathon in 2 hours.
-find some sort of "creation" hobby that I feel like doing (and not nessarily the one you all just thought of....)
Secondary-but-important goals are to teach myself more from the multitude of computer textbooks I own and to draw more.
1 - Work and travel:
1.1 - Keep working on cruise ships, though structuring the my time away better than last year to maximize time in Berlin/with friends/doing my own thing.
1.2 - I already know I'll be visiting, on various cruises, Papua New Guinea, New Zealand, India, and Dubai for the first time, along with a few other places. I may be going to Antarctica again too.
1.3 - On top of work travel, spend some frequent flier points and travel home from various gigs independently. In this way I hope to spend a week in New Zealand, and a week in Japan.
1.4 - Release my International Juggler 2009 video, the one I've been working on for the last year, which features me juggling in every country/place I visited.
1.5 - Shoot, edit, and release International Juggler 2010, a similar video as above, of all the places I visit in 2010. I have some ideas about how to make this different/better than the 2009 video, but I don't need to think about that too much for the next few weeks.
1.6 - Go to Poland. I live really close, but have never been. What's up with that?
1.7 - Go to the Berlin, British, and European juggling conventions. And a convention in September/October too. Maybe the Turkish again, maybe another.
1.8 - Spend four to six weeks in New York. I've visited the city for a few weeks, but I want to get to know the city better. I hear so many people from there talk about it, and I want to experience it all first hand.
1.9 - Maybe, if I can sort the dates right, I might go to DragonCon, to nerd out with the scifi and podcasting geeks.
2 - Juggling:
2.1 - Keep improving my solo shows and performing skills.
2.2 - Work on my Room show project, a juggling theater show. I plan to have all the set building work complete by March, and 20-30 minutes complete by May.
2.3 - Perform a short version of the Room Show at the Berlin Juggling Convention in June.
2.4 - Have an hour show finished by October, and put on a series of shows in my own home for invited audiences.
2.5 - Finish other juggling routines I'm working on at the moment.
2.6 - Run the British Young Juggler of the Year show for the sixth year. Also do a series of online workshops for those taking part, in attempt to raise the quality of the acts. Nobody has won a Gold Award yet!
2.7 - I'm in charge of the Open Stages at the EJC in Finland. That means seven or eight nights of zero stress and easy work as my superior organization skills result in everything running smoothly, and every night's show rocking. Or so I hope.
2.8 - Generally rock out playing combat.
2.9 - Beat Jochen in the final of a Fight Night 3 Club Combat tournament. I've won a tournament we both entered before, but I wasn't the one to knock him out.
2.10 - Release some more Juggling Podcasts.
2.11 - Release some interesting juggling videos on YouTube (I have a few good ideas).
2.12 - Juggle 9 clubs for 19 passes each with Pola.
2.13 - Also, depending other work commitments, I might enter Britain's Got Talent. If I do have the time, the final decider will be the question "Will this cause me any stress at all?" At the moment I have very little stress in my life, by design, so I might as well keep it that way.
3 - Writing:
3.1 - Keep writing for this blog.
3.2 - Finish editing and release (and decide on final titles for) on my two works-in-progress novels: Combat Story and Monster Story. Completion dates: January and March.
3.3 - Have another run at Human Danger (working title), the novel I began but didn't complete in 2009. I have a feeling this will be a longer-term project than just this year though.
3.4 - Research, outline, and write another novel I'm giving the working title "Arc of Life." It'll be a fantasy novel set in a world of strange creatures and magic. My fiction writing style at the moment is very much a "just get on with the plot" kind of thing, which means a lot is packed into a very small package. This works well for near-future science fiction thrillers. Writing fantasy set in a strange new world with a completely different history and landscape than our own will hopefully force me to concentrate more on descriptive scene-setting writing, rather than character, dialogue, and action.
3.5 - Start work on the final novel in the Minding Tomorrow world.
3.6 - Do an audio recording of one of my novels. As long as I keep my novels short, this could be a good way to get more readers/listeners. I'd need to buy a new microphone though.
4 - Podcasting:
4.1 - Keep reading science fiction novels and reviewing them for the Science Fiction Book Review Podcast. I also plan to review any fantasy novels I read.
4.2 - Be a guest on other podcasts. I know I'll be back on the SFFaudio podcast at some point.
4.3 - Doing some more Juggling Podcasts. I really miss the interviews I did with other jugglers.
4.4 - I'm thinking of starting a new podcast about traveling. I enjoy posting photos here on the blog, but I see and do lots of things that I never write about here. For example, I have a lot to say about a place like Punta Arenas, but it's not the kind of thing that would work as a blog post. I'm thinking of doing a trip-by-trip podcast, or just saving up enough observations and stories and experiences to fill 45 minutes, and releasing it whenever.
4.5 - If I'm going to do this, I'm going to buy a portable mp3 recorder with a mic attachment, so I can record easily while hiking across a city or up a hill.
4.6 - Thinking about that last point, what I should actually do is see if my iPhone would work just as well, as then I need to carry one less gadget.
5 - Photography:
5.1 - I have no plans for my photography. It's the only hobby I have which has no performance aspect at all (I even podcast about my reading), so there is no pressure to do anything at all. I'll just keep carrying my camera, and keep improving my skills and artistry.
5.2 - But I will try to keep posting photos to my blog.
5.3 - And I'm going to buy a new zoom lens, because the autofocus on my current (really shitty) zoom lens is broken.
5.4 - And I'll probably buy another two or three camera bags.
6 - Music:
6.1 - Write an album's-worth of new songs and record them by the end of the year.
6.2 - Write the music for Room.
6.3 - Buy a five string bass guitar and learn to rock.
7 - Other goals:
7.1 - Get better at speaking German. I plan to hire a personal tutor, as regular classes don't work with my schedule.
7.2 - Try to spend a few hours a week in the gym whenever I'm on a cruise ship. I spend way more time than that in the bars, and in the jacuzzis, and eating, and other unhealthy things. A few hours in the gym will help me keep my fitness levels up.
7.3 - Spend more time with friends.
7.4 - Make new friends.
7.5 - Have sex.
7.6 - Maybe buy a new laptop. This macbook has served me well for almost two years, but I'm doing more and more music and video and photo editing, and it's struggling a bit. I think I'll buy a full spec 13" MacBook Pro, and upgrade to a solid state hard drive for super quick load times.
8 - Consumption of entertainment:
8.1 - Catch up with Dexter.
8.2 - Watch more than the first episode of Battlestar Galactica. I've had the season 1 box set in my cabin(s) for the past eight weeks, and haven't watched a single episode.
8.3 - Play more Natural Selection and, if it is ever released, Natural Selection 2. I might need more memory for my PC though.
It adds up to 50 numbered goals.
So far:
Failed - 2.25
Future Win - 22.75
In the works - 18.5
Win! - 6.5
I think I'm doing pretty well!