Do you have any short term goals?

Seachmall

I was talking to a friend over the weekend about the importance of setting short term goals to give yourself a constant sense of achievement and to avoid feeling like you're stagnating in life and I realised I've nothing that could give me that feeling of accomplishment on a weekly or bimonthly basis.

I've medium and long term goals but they too easily get forgotten about or lost in the fray of immediate priorities and tasks. Or I just lose interest (which happens all to often).

So, do you have any? Any DIY projects? Or maybe you want to finish that book you can never get time to read? Even Get the wife pregnant? Find Jesus? Win the lotto? Murder your neighbour? Assassinate a world leader? Instigate a coup? Anything?




And if anyone mentions opening a safe I will brain you.

mattjack

Burying some safes.

13spanner

Getting in early with witty replies on AH threads.

mattjack

13spanner wrote: »

Getting in early with witty replies on AH threads.

When will you have the witty reply for us ?

13spanner

mattjack wrote: »

When will you have the witty reply for us ?

Soon....

castletownman

My current short term goal is to have some sexy time with Daenarys Targaryen.

Just need to find a plot hole somewhere in Games of Thrones.

mike65

To wake up.

Bipolar Joe

Go to sleep.

danslevent

Little things involving college work and gym plans...they always fall through

Senna

I've set myself a goal of getting my golf handicap down from 15 to 12 by then end of the summer.

HazDanz

Get to bed before half eleven. Still a chance I can make it, just requires moving a duvet over me but this seems like a job right now.

Pilotdude5

Some books fell off my shelf earlier and I must pick them up. Also must get a job.

Bipolar Joe

Senna wrote: »

I've set myself a goal of getting my golf handicap down from 15 to 12 by then end of the summer.

Become handicapable?

Lando Griffin

To be first in with an acceptable Aprils FoolsDay thread, one that dosent get closed for being too early or merged with one thats already started.

danslevent

HazDanz wrote: »

Get to bed before half eleven. Still a chance I can make it, just requires moving a duvet over me but this seems like a job right now.

Even if I go to bed the actually going to sleep part takes ages! I was up at half nine, went to the gym and swimming and had special caffeine free herbal night time tea...probably will take me over an hour to fall asleep

jubella

What if you dont succeed at any of them and just end up with a contsant feeling of disappointment instead? Now that's no fun is it.

Bitcoins!

Man Utd certainly didn't have any this evening.

ashers222

A few on the go, the diy project is one large one broken down into several small pieces so I can work one project at a time. It's lovely getting each one done and I'm halfway through phase two at the minute. It should be completed by June/July.
There are other smaller personal things, I set goals and targets and once I've achieved them find a new one, I think I might even be a bit ocd about it at this stage. Work is something I do when I'm not busy setting or achieving goals.

kfallon

Not to shit the bed tonight!

I just have to take one night at a time

AirBiscuit

To win a competition by making Windows 8 apps.

stop animal cruelty

lose a stone and a half before the summer, finish my pencil drawing of Elvis, learn to speak spanisk and italian. Read a book on how the overcome social anxitey. Kinda boring really.

im invisible

I had a short term goal once, it was ruled offside

OneArt

Pilotdude5 wrote: »

Some books fell off my shelf earlier and I must pick them up. Also must get a job.

Fecking government sponger using hard-earned taxpayer's money to buy shelves:mad:

Buy a plant for the apartment.

Ruudi_Mentari

If just to survive dis day....

*glugs coors* yeah.

Where To

Get up in the morning.
Go to the shop for milk.
Feed the pup.
Do some work.
Pay some bills.
Book a trip somewhere, New York maybe.
Watch some Telly.
Have a coffee.
Eat dinner.
Browse boards.
Go to bed.

That's about it, I never really look more than one day ahead.

McChubbin

Current short-term goal is to save €160 for a tattoo. Should be straightforward enough- been saving all my 1 and 2 euro coins up in a big tin for the last month. Hope to reach my goal by April.

hponboard

i want to run 5km under 20mins

hponboard

jubella wrote: »

What if you dont succeed at any of them and just end up with a contsant feeling of disappointment instead? Now that's no fun is it.

is that not the fun of it all, keep trying until you get one of them right and then feel satisfied.

stefan idiot jones

To see a new Irish rugby coach installed by the end of the month.

Cookie_Monster

Run a half marathon was one of my mine since November, did it on Sunday.

hponboard

Cookie_Monster wrote: »

Run a half marathon was one of my mine since November, did it on Sunday.

great stuff what time did you do.
i ran my first half m and then the 2012 dublin city full marathon, keep it up well done

Cookie_Monster

hponboard wrote: »

great stuff what time did you do.
i ran my first half m and then the 2012 dublin city full marathon, keep it up well done

2h 19s, 19 seconds over target.

hponboard

Cookie_Monster wrote: »

2h 19s, 19 seconds over target.

what was target?
and are you going to run full marathon this year now that would be a big goal for you. was the the target not just to run the half marathon and it was completed . fair play to you

efb

Getting out of bed. I achieve it most mornings

Dravokivich

Is this the prequel to a "My News...." Thread?

:pac:

Seachmall

Seachmall wrote: »

I was talking to a friend over the weekend about the importance of setting short term goals

Pretty much ALL my goals are short term these days but they build themselves into long term ones.

Basically my outlook on life is that I want to judge myself today against the person I was yesterday. So every day I try to improve on that person in some small way. Physically - mentally - or whatever.

Long term goals just kind of sorted themselves out from that such as my daily hour run at 5am - or my evening hour cycle after work - and some DIY and Gardening and cooking projects I work on often.

As for any very specific short-medium term goals??? Well I do intend to actually manage to _finish_ this years "Weaponised Go Kart Race"!!!!

Kev_2012

See Slayer,
Move to Canada.
Fin.

pablohoney87

My boss told me if I make him a million in fees in 5 years he'll get me a pontiac firebird. Thats mine.

Swampy

Short term goal is to get some coffee and food in to me ASAP .

Ush1

A one armed press up.

petes

Get your wife pregnant and also buy a car!

im invisible

stefan idiot jones wrote: »

To see a new Irish rugby coach installed by the end of the month.

i'm getting a new couch installed aswell, custom made

mackg

Improve sleeping pattern so I completely cut out being late for work and have breakfast every morning.

Put €300 away by the end of the month for a trip around Europe in the Summer.

Get to the end of the day having not smoked a cigarette.

Gymsey

My short term goal is to bury a safe to store all the earphones i pop out of womens ears in

speedboatchase

Take a ****.

jank

Survive probation.

LoonyLovegood

Manage to not fall asleep in college. Get college work done. Don't get arrested when in Italy

MadYaker

I plan to buy a sandwich and eat it in the next half an hour.

ShadowHearth

Short term goals:

Complete my lego lord of the rings 2012 range. I am still missing 4 sets.

Keep putting away 50eu per week with misses in to a savings box and finally open account in credit union.

PatL23

Lose 2-3 stone by September.
Try to concur my huge fear of rejection.
Start my little business venture.
Learn some basic German.
Start talking to women.

I have lost 2 stone since January, down to 15 from 17 stone.
Although saying that i have lost motivation in the past 2 weeks and my diet has gone to **** because my brain tells me that i haven't changed a bit looks wise
I want to get to 13 stone but i dont know how im going to find the will power(drive) to get there.