Hello gents,

 

This thread is for everyone and anyone to make a stand a say 'I will do this!' It's about going that little bit further and pushing ourselves a little harder to make us into better human beings. The idea is we list a few things that we feel we should attempt that we wouldn't otherwise do.

 

For example, this last week I set myself these goals:

 

1) Run to the next town and back.

 

2) Help a stranger

 

3) Do a sensible amount of push ups each morning when I wake up (I'm a pretty scrawny guy, so I'm only doing about 40 each morning).

 

4) Reduce my car use (hard in the country, but still achievable).

 

5) Promote tolerance amongst my local community (probably at the local pub, a hotbed of racial bigotry!)

 

These are my goals for this week (ending Saturday 17 April). The way I see it, I'm trying to set goals that will improve my health, my mental state of mind and my local community. It's an all inclusive thing, and in no way competitive aside from with myself.

 

So far, I really need to work on Objectives 4 and 5, but there's still a few days left! I'll post another set of objectives for myself on Sunday morning, and rate my performance from the last week.

 

 

Cheers!

Edited April 14, 201015 yr by EnjoyTheSauce

1) Exercise

 

2) more effort into assignments

 

3) do some reading

Edited April 14, 201015 yr by Tycalt

1) I will actually start this assignment instead of leaving it to the last couple days. Although I have done this for the last 10 or so years, I will change!

 

2) Finish off my last couple hours in my learners log book, and get my license.

 

3) Apply for youth allowance now that the laws have changed!

 

4) Work on PR map.

 

5) Finish off bigD campaign map by this weekend.

Everyone better hope this one gets done. Pressure me. Abuse me

(verbally).

 

6) Get fit...totally dude. I suck at fitness.

 

7) LEARN RUSSIAN LANGUAGE (long term thing)

 

8) Thanks to Chuc: draw everyday at least once! Doing an Animation Major, I need to do this, thankyou!

Edited April 14, 201015 yr by YAK

Good idea for motivation Aphex

 

1) Draw or paint something every day

 

2) Learn one new kanji every day

 

3) Dead hang pull ups, beat 10 in a row

 

4) Give change fallen out of my wallet to the homeless

Awesome! That's the spirit! I reckon there is also scope for offering friendly encouragement and tips on achieving our goals. For example, I'd love to know how I can try and preach a bit more tolerance so if anyone has any ideas, PM me!

Having originally mistaken this for a thread about constipation...

 

1) get a (good) job

2) improve my general attitude in life to be more optimistic

 

and not necessarily in that order.

1- Wake up at a reasonable hour

 

2- I will walk to the bottem level of my mansion instead of taking the elevator.

 

3- Ask one of my 20 supermodel wives to make me some eggs, with bacon ofcourse. But I will do the cleaning ; )

 

4- Take my jet for a cruize more often.

 

5- I'll help my 20 supermodel babes wash my lambo instead of just squiting them with the hose.

 

Thats about all I can do really, since I'm such a nice guy already.

^olololololol

1) Sleep Less

2) Skate more well start again

3) Actually do my School Assignments

4) Eat Healither and get fit

5) and last but not least get a part time job

1- Sleep more

2- Repaint the walls the kids have drawn on (lil buggers..)

3- get my VN back on the road ..its one of my toys..a plain looking sedan with a race spec engine .

4- get the paths in the back yard done

5- Stop going "......" for no real reason...

Get a better part time job :\

learn more bass guitar.

fix keyboard (the musical kind).

short term:

. learn songs for dragstrip trio for april 25

. learn songs for johnny law for 24th april

. learn dragstrip trio songs for june 12

. learn continentals new songs for this Saturday

. sort out a payment scheme for private students

 

medium term goals:

. get full time roster of student at home

. get better time management skills

. lose 5 kg

. move out of this house

. get my ska band going

 

long term goals:

. get single strokes to 120 bpm

. get jazz ride cymbal patter to 180bpm

. save money to buy house

. perform more live

. record my own songs/my own groups

. put together r&b band

 

ongoing goals:

. keep practising hard

. improve teaching skills

. get more vintage clothes

Edited April 15, 201015 yr by uberphat

complete my av tech training with no fails, get to oakey do well there, then apply to work on chinooks!

 

thats my goal for the next 18months!

 

 

other then that i has no others... except, get back to the gym.

1. conceive another child

1) Clean the engines of at least 3 of the supercars per day

2) Travel back through time and meet jebus

3) Activate moonbase defences and repel alien invasion

4) Invent a vegetable that tastes like chocolate

5) Invent a perpetual motion machine

6) Become invisible

7) Have sex inside a black hole

8) Get out of bed earlier

1) Clean the engines of at least 3 of the supercars per day

2) Travel back through time and meet jebus

3) Activate moonbase defences and repel alien invasion

4) Invent a vegetable that tastes like chocolate

5) Invent a perpetual motion machine

6) Become invisible

7) Have sex inside a black hole

8) Get out of bed earlier

 

we had a good thing going then you come back from holiday and ruin it withyour sarcastic wit.

1) Finish honours with a decent mark and the remains of my sanity

2) Start a doctorate next year and lose all remaining sanity

3) Somehow fit in some volunteer work this year to start developing an ability to interact with patients

4) Finish the 210km 'around the bay in a day' ride in melbourne (Incidently, i can be sponsored here, the money goes to the Smith Family: http://aroundthebayfundraising.com.au/?JamesGooden )

5) Get married and be a good husband !

http://aroundthebayfundraising.com.au/?JamesGooden )

 

anyone with some spare cash should take note...

 

p.s. interesting to read all the genuine responses here

I am hoping a forum moderator can burn the stupid posts.

1. Buy some flowers to give to a random female that looks like they are having a stress filled/average/boring day and put a smile on there face

 

2.drink less on the weekend

 

3.bring my sleeping pattern back too normal been up to about 2-3 every morning lately :S

 

4.cut 95% of any junk food out for the week.

 

5.apply for my firearms licence

 

this is to be done between these dates 18th-25th

*snip*

Edited June 4, 201113 yr by Atheos H-K

2) Cut back on a rather nasty habit that chrisso keeps pestering me about on facebook

 

Thats just wrong is what it is !!!!! lol :db:

 

great thread aphex +1

 

1 - Continue trying to find a causal job until my 26 July enlistment

2 - Continue to work out and run everyday and achieve at least a kilo a week.

3 - Keep my Area tidy !

4 - Find the time to Service my Car - needs to be done soon as !

5 - Continue my healthy eating diet and not sercome to junk and beer.

6 - Get a massage this weekend.

 

This is more of an ongoing motivational plan rather than just a one week thing.

 

Keep the thread free from stupidity please as this certainly is a thread worth keeping ! once again good work mr fusion.

[1] - Buy wifey flowers by the end of next week

[2] - Tell my business partner I appreciate him before I go home

[3] - Complete a half marathon in 2010 <-- YIKES!

[4] - Provide a helpful hint for my fellow man... now.

 

 

 

Ok, here's my hint, as concisely as I can. It's great to see so many great goals. Don't shoot me if i'm being a killjoy... just move on if you don't like it.

If you want to achieve your goals, and make them really effective, make them SMART goals.

 

S - Specific: Not vague; "eat < 200 calories a day" vs "eat less"

M - Measurable: Include some digits, and have a discernable finish / success criteria;

A - Accountable: Write it down, tell someone, ask someone to check in.

R - Realistic: Achievable; "Exercise 15mins+ twice a week" vs "run for 2hrs a day"

T - Timebound; Deadlines sets us in motion; "do x by end of April" vs "do x"

 

 

Good luck fellas! It's great to see the odd non-shallow thread around the place.

 

+1 Aphex

well said ed , and i love your sig

Guys, this is an awesome thread! Maybe you should check back and edit your posts to tick off the things you have done.

 

1) I'm currently training to do the Dwellingup 100 which is held around September. - a 100km mountain bike race.

2) Run a half marathon, try and do it in under 2 hours.

3) Learn to hangglide.

4) Trade my blubber in for a nice rig in general.

5) Run home from site at least twice a swing.

6) Hit the gym at least 3 times a swing.

Edited April 17, 201015 yr by JACK_SEVERITY

Some of Trotters goals...

 

1) Save up and buy new winter covers for my horses (as someone recently stole them -.-)

 

2) Do something nice for a complete stranger to make them smile =)

 

3) Go to aussie for a visit

 

4) Get a part time job and keep upto date with my assignments

 

...hopefully in that particular order =D