I can only apologise to everyone in regards to how lax i've been with posting these check-in threads. On the bright side, that hopefully means we've all got lots to update everyone else on? I say hopefully because I just looked at the goals I set myself and all I see is failure and apathy.
Nonetheless, Hubski is full of folks much more admirable than me. So if you please, once again gather in the now slightly musty meeting space which harbours the morale menagerie. Come share with us your tales of betterment and prosperity.
The document of compiled goals can be seen here. Feel free to add yourself if you have not yet done so. If you didn't participate in the past thread(s), that's okay too. You can also join in whenever you like, so go ahead.
Shoutouts, let me know if you wish to be adder or removed: nowaypablo, ghostoffuffle, kleinbl00, thundara, veen, OftenBen, lil, thenewgreen, swedishbadgergirl, doesntgolf, blackbootz, Cumol ,ButterflyEffect, kingmudsy
Well. I said I needed new goals like a week after writing those because of my health issues - and because maybe stressing down and getting better at stressing down would help me more with school as well - here are some new goals for my new school year. SBG's Goals for IB year 1, try two 1. Go swimming at least once every week
2. Study for half anhour after school Those are it. I might be able to get some more things on there when I know my schedule better.
Yep. I've found 30 minutes works very well for me. I read very quickly so that really helps with studying as well. Maths is the worst because it really DEMANDS concentration.
I've got 2/3 down and have accomplished a lot more than I thought I would have accomplished in other areas of life since this started. A lot more people graduated this year than I thought.
1. I will run twice a week a distance greater than 3 miles in an effort to train for the Tar Heel 10 miler This is April 18th 2015 Nope. But I have begun running again. This whole "find a new job in less than 2 months thing really fucked my whole world up. But, I'm finally in a good place and can't wait to focus on "me" again, as selfish as that sounds. 2. I will never eat any fast food. EverI had fast food yesterday at a baseball game. 3. I will consume two drinks no more than two nights a week I'm actually doing pretty well here. 4. I will go to bed by 10pm at least 3 nights a week Maybe two nights a week... 5. I will meet my sales goals by October 2015 I think I would have been able to do this, had I not been pushed out of my company. But... fuck them, I just landed a much better gig. 6. I will have a revenue producing startup by EOY 2015 I am on track to achieve this 7. I will complete two albums, one of which being the Hubski Collaborative Music Project. Just received an email from the drummer working on one of my albums that he is ready to begin recording. I will at least have one finished this year.
All in all, I am not where I thought I would be on all levels. I had some major life challenges hurled at me and now that I'm on the other side of them, I plan to make the second half of 2015 a productive and healthy one. Thanks for keeping me honest rezzeJ!
Well if we can't be as great as we imagine ourselves to be, at least we can be honest. Fortunately, it seems you're pretty great as well, at least to me: An album coming along, maintaining exercise, drinking at the place you want it, and a start-up on the way. Keep pressing forward!
So check this muthafuckas - Move out of LA -> Tenants: INFORMED -> Commercial lease: FINALIZING -> Financing: SECURED -> Design: IN PROCESS 60 DAYS BITCH - Rebuild wife's business in another market ->Pinterest: 140 pins in stealth mode ->Facebook: 5 months of history in stealth mode ->Landing: DONE ->Page: SOFT OPEN ...SHE'S EVEN GOT A CLIENT LINED UP ALREADY
- Learn WWise & FMod ...ehh fukkit. I got a cert in WWIse. I'll deal with that shit when I got a minute. - Add another industry to roster Well fuck. I'm a goddamn entrepreneur. Also might be about to get into hardware design 'cuz a buddy had a wild hair. And since I'm about to be next to all the hardware peepz I know, I'n'I am about to throw down with the codingz.
- Log into MyFitnessPal every goddamn day 170 days in a row bitchez I think I weigh about 4 pounds less today than I did at the beginning of the year but you know what? I'm running 8 minute miles in my 40s so fukkit. There is champagne that will be going into the fridge soon... and the moving map display got switched from Los Angeles to Seattle this morning. It looks so much more natural.
I just ran a 4 mile run and holy-shit, it killed me. I'm in piss-poor running shape and I need to get back to my old self. I have my old running coach, cliffelam coming in to town in two weeks. He's going to be muy bored running at my pace. I'm running 8 minute miles in my 40s so fukkit.
-that's seriously bad-ass. I feel good when I finish a run and I'm near 9 minutes a mile.
Thanks rezzeJ This is very timely since the heading on my last entry was My year has certainly taken an unexpected turn and my new goal is 1. Start life over again (and again and again) Not quite sure what that will look like yet, but I should know by the end of 2015. There will be lawyers. Meanwhile let's look at the previous goals: Write a blog a day during Ramadan. I didn't quite do this, but I did pick up my blog again and have written nine new blogs on Lil's Book of Questions since June 20 and had over 2000 views in July. I also added three new blogs on hubski-inspired Write Better Dammit blog. I'll be writing a lot more there when I start teaching in the fall. All my work goals are done and I figured out FlipKey, mostly. But it's a very irritating AirBnB-type website and their customer service is terrible, so far. So starting August 1, today, my goal is to write some goals, privately in my journal for the next five months. I'll stick this at the top of my feed as a reminder to add my goals to our glorious private Google Doc.MARCH 2015 -AUGUST 2015
and here it is August 1, 2015.
Never stop starting over again! It's one thing we do have control over. I don't know the extent of your situation, but I hope it works its way into something more positive for you in the coming months. Nice job on the blogging, that's a great amount of views. It's always unique, interesting, and insightful content as far as I can see, so I can only see that figure upholding and improving. Good luck on cultivating some more private goals. Sometimes it's best when we keep them to ourselves for a while.
I have graduated too and I'm off to Sweden with 5 of my best friends in less than a week. Have completely dropped sports because I know I couldn't sustain it over the summer, so I'll try again later. Books have been going well, I just finished Townsend's Smart Cities.
Interesting, this is nice and new to me. I've been steadily losing weight for a few years now, but recently I fell off the wagon, and I'm ten pounds up. My goal weight, once upon a time, was 180, but when I hit that goal and still felt "soggy in the midsection" (to quote the eminent philosopher of our time, Will Smith), I kept losing, down to 174. Now I'm up to 184, so I've got to at least get back down to my previous record, but hopefully get down to 170. This time, though, I hope I can get a better exercise regime going, since it's been 99% diet previously. Keeping the energy to exercise, and finding exercises I enjoy are tough, so I've got to explore my options more and see what's fun. I love to hike, but that's a seasonal thing that takes lot of preparation, and isn't something that can be done daily. If I get the job I've been shooting for, I can join the company gym, and they've got a swimming pool that I would hope to be able to use, so that should, in theory, solve the problem. So, let's see if joining the Morale Menagerie is helpful to reach that goal. Count me in.
I hope nobody minds if I get into this! 1: Gym 6 times a week (rugby off season, time to turn it up a notch)
2: Yoga every second weekday
3: Be selected for the Otago Touch Rugby team for Nationals (March 2016)
4: Make something with Pyrography every month. Make these bits of art for someone in particular each time.
5: Pay off my credit card every month, in full.
6: Bench press 100kg by February.
7: Consistently excel at work, in line with ye olde KPIs.
8: Continue appearing on the Reddit /r/rugbyunion podcast.
9: Purchase a keyboard and get back into practice.
I need new goals, as my path has been altered a bit since I last made these and because I'm more or less accomplished in each. First, rundown of old goals. 1) Smoking cessation. I quit smoking! I also have slowed down drinking to once every week or two. I love my healthy and unhungover self just so damn much more than my bleary-eyed, lethargic, and lazy Saturday and Sunday mornings. 2) Regular exercise. I broke my pinky so for five weeks I was in a cast, though I managed to play soccer quite regularly. But now, in the three weeks since my cast has come off, I've been going to the gym six times a week. I love it. Protip: get a roommate who is knowledgable and fit and challenges you everyday (I admit that this isn't a protip as much as totally lucking out). 3) Regular You Need A Budget (YNAB) updates. This was essentially a goal to follow a budget, and I did... until things changed. I had to, or really wanted to, visit a partner in New York. The thing about working on a near volunteer basis is that my savings are wiped any time I want to do anything. But, I did start a Roth IRA! And I am saving money now to move to Colorado. 4) Keep a track of daily habits (Read. Write. Exercise. Brush. Floss.) I may have noted the last check-in about this, but I don't keep a track of these habits as much as I just do them everyday. New Goals. Fun. 1) Write something for a larger audience. I write, but my audience is almost only ever myself or one other person in the case of letter writing. I want to write something for people. (And hubski comments, although a great outlet for me, are not allowed to count.) 2) Not damage or break or lose my personal effects. I break or lose items, like phones or my leatherman multi-tool, like I have money growing on trees. It's terrible. I most certainly do not have money like that. I would like to say that I'm getting better, but the test will begin when I get a new phone in the coming weeks. Let's see if I can own it and keep it in good shape for a year. That will break my current record of 11 months. I'm kind of embarrassed. 3) I will acknowledge and abide by the voice of hesitation when making larger purchases. I have a tiny voice in my head that I have found holds a lot of good sense when it comes to buying. If the voice is present, and I buy it, OFTEN I am regretful. I will use the voice! Will add more later!
I am reaching them. Slowly. Learning to be patient with a parent with dementia is my big challenge right now. For me academic, professional and financial goals have always been easy but personal goals are hard. Really hard. I have said this before, but I am trying to learn to be more patient with a parent with dementia. They just received a notice from the government that their drivers licence is suspended which led to rage. Shit went down. But I think I handled it better than my nature would usually permit. I have literally made zero money the last 3 weeks but that is OK as I am focusing on getting my parent into a better space and have been for a long time but it hasn't worked yet. I hope I am mid-point at getting acceptance but who knows. I don't even know where the finish line is which makes it hard.
Big congratulations on graduating, employment, and the improved weight, that's no mean feat! When it comes to the guitar, I find I develop best when I pick a song that is slightly/moderately above by skill level and put all my energy in to learning it. If you haven't already, look up a piece of software called 'Guitar Pro.' You can download specific tabs for it from Ultimate Guitar and then it allows you to play, slow down, and loop sections of the tab in real time. Very useful.
Well, as some of the guys in IRC might know, I went to Atlanta last week, and got to witness my best friend from childhood tie the knot (and knowing he was still strictly abstinent, got to rib him at the reception for finally catching up to those of us that deviated from that path ;P) Although the trip had it's hiccups (like staying in what we later found out was a prostitute den in Douglasville, to a hotel losing our reservations) my best friend in Houston and I definitely had fun getting out of our element (and doing a rather awesome zombie apocalypse D&D style campaign the whole drive there and back, which is still ongoing) Upon arrival back in Houston, I discovered that another friend of mine (who'd known that I'd be out of town for my birthday, which also happened last Saturday) has now planned a trip to Dallas next month, that will involve getting INCREDIBLY hammered with some of his friends, so we can play lots of Magic, have general shenanigans, and forget that I'm 23 and still unable to find stable employment, albeit only for a while. TL;DR Atlanta was awesome, now trying to make the best of the sticky situation I find myself in.