Posted: 12/15/2002 12:52:45 PM EDT
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Do you have goals? I know someone, well actually a few people, who don't. They just exist. My goals: To provide for my kids as best as I can. Send them to college, instill good moral values in them, raise them to appreciate the constitution and guns. Be a role model for them. Take care of my parents as they age. Be a good husband. Eventually have a home where I can live out the rest of my days shooting, hunting, handloading and reading. How about you? Balming |
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Quoted: Do you have goals? I know someone, well actually a few people, who don't. They just exist. My goals: To provide for my kids as best as I can. Send them to college, instill good moral values in them, raise them to appreciate the constitution and guns. Be a role model for them. Take care of my parents as they age. Be a good husband. Eventually have a home where I can live out the rest of my days shooting, hunting, handloading and reading. How about you? Balming The first 2 are responsibilities. The second 2 are goals. Mine are: My short term goal is to become debt free within 12 months. (except Mortgage) Get a second place within 3 years that is either a lake place or mountain place. Long term is to retire early and enjoy all my stuff. |
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Goals? I couldn't exist without them. Right now, my biggest goal is to finish transforming our 100 y.o. church building into the largest single-family dwelling in the county. That is going to take almost all of 2003. Once we are done with that, we'll be debt free and own a $400K showpiece home. Then I suppose she'll be ready to start working on cooking up a kid. I suppose that I will be ready then too, but I don't really consider that a goal since I'm really not into kids all that much. I'm sort of getting sucked into running for city council where I live, but I wouldn't call that a goal per se. I suppose that if I commit, winning the election would be a goal. I am really itching to launch back out on my own again businesswise. Maybe write a book or two in the long long term. |
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I used to NOT set goals, even in my sales jobs. I sort of drifted from day to day, moment to moment. But recently I've started setting small goals. Earlier this year I decided, after my 5th job in 2 years, to go back to school at the age of 36. I did my research and decided on Radiological Technology (X-ray tech) as a career due to hot job market and decent wages. My first goal was to take an Anatomy and Physiology class at a local community college in prep for the Rad Tech program. After being out of college for 13 years it was scary, but I bit down and did it. My second goal was to get a "B" in the class. I studied my ass off and spent a lot of time at home studying when I normally spend it with my wife. Luckily she was very supportive. The result? I got the highest grade in the class and got an "A" overall - woo hoo! My next goal is to get into the Rad Tech program - I've got two programs I'm applying for and will know in April - until then, it is back to A&P II in January and my goal is another "A". If all works out well, in 2.5 years I'll have a new career and can move anywhere in the country and be guaranteed a job. My wife's goal is to move back to the Tampa area, so hopefully in 3 years we'll be doing that. |
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I got to thinkin last night... I got to thinkin that just kind of meandering forward without setting any goals is unsatisfactory, so I told my wife to think of some goals, and we're gonna have a talk about them and set some family goals this week. Thanks for this thought provoking thread Balming. Scott |
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I want to be the sole master of time space and dimension. Then I want to go to Europe. Actually I'm a drifter. Drives the wife batty because she is a type-A+ driven woman. She is always wanting to set goals. I have a hard enough time figuring out what's for dinner. |