What are your life goals?

[merid]

A majority of the threads in this section seem to imply that money is the driving motivator in life but no one seems to put a limit on how much money they want.

So what are your goals in life and if you are older, have you achieved them?


For me I want to earn enough money to give financial security to my family. So my main goal in life is to have a happy family and have children that I can look on and say that they can do whatever they want to do.

[Max T]

I think a key danger with money is that once a target amount is reached, the lifestyle quickly requires an even larger amount.
UK entrepreneur Felix Dennis ($1.6bn net worth) regrets at 60+yrs to having spent so much of his life accumulating money. He wished he'd stopped at $60m at 40yrs. And it's often thought that top Wall St. executives still working in their late 50's onwards are in a sad position of not knowing when to stop and begin giving to more needy.


For me I want to earn enough money to give financial security to my family. So my main goal in life is to have a happy family and have children that I can look on and say that they can do whatever they want to do.
Initially I thought this was a low ambition, but having spent childhood years listening to arguments about money and being told 'we can't afford it', such a goal would be very admirable indeed. Just as money targets shift, it's easy to forget the huge stress that a lack of money brings, once you have some saved away.

Stephen Covey in his book "7 habits of highly effective people" says that we should picture how we'd like to be remembered at our funeral... and then plan our life to achieve this memory.
I'd like to stop full-time work and spend the rest of time doing charity work and be involved with inventions- so that would need $2m to generate sufficient interest to live a non-materialistic, comfortable life.
Better yet would be to have "philanthropist" written on the gravestone- that would likely need $10m+ and high returns being donated. The risk is that the personal effort to reach that stage could strain family relations (and how do you balance the dilemma of offspring feeling they should receive the money instead- a key discussion point for individuals who pay $500,000+ to have a dinner with Warren Buffett (his four offspring received $50m+ each)).

[Elfrun]

Along the same lines...

My specific financial goal is to acquire Au$3m, that would allow me to live the lifestyle that I desire, naturally having the money is not the point it's what I can then do with it which includes not having to work to survive, being able to support my family, travel the world, donate to charity and a nice element of luxury to boot. I’m not materialistic this is only one of many goals.

[notoppings]

My goal is to retire at age 50, that way I can still be young enough to enjoy the fruits of my labor at this time I will take a trip around the world not to be less then 5 years long.

To be able to take care of my family in their crisis times.

At 55 to open a small kitchen in Seattle where people will come to dine on weekends and special events and pay for their meals and donate a meal to those less fortunate souls. The kitchen will serve the less fortunate during the week every morning and maybe afternoon from my interest/investments and the donated meals from Seattle's kinder souls. This will not be a charity or for profit it will go with only my interest not capital and donations I will not seek a tax free status.

[augustus]

I definitely want to achieve financial freedom. That means I can choose to do what to do with my time.

I don't have specific numbers in mind but I love the idea of creating a business that is successful. It is like painting a picture - you give it its culture, its values, its priorities, you watch it grow, you admire the number of people that are touched by it.

I really get motivated by what business can do to society. It makes the world a better place.

[sriv]

For me I want to earn enough money to give financial security to my family. So my main goal in life is to have a happy family and have children that I can look on and say that they can do whatever they want to do.

Same.

I would also like the idea of imparting my knowledge to them.

[phantasma]

I'm only 17, so I have too many goals to count. Here are some of my main ones.

- above all, create. Create great art, create music, create opportunities, create a family, etc.

- travel the world

- find a job I love. I'd love to be an artist. Though I may not have enough money to retire early, I would die happy.

- gain true wisdom, be experienced

- find a great husband, a best friend I'd want to spend my life with.

[cBorg]

The risk is that the personal effort to reach that stage could strain family relations (and how do you balance the dilemma of offspring feeling they should receive the money instead- a key discussion point for individuals who pay $500,000+ to have a dinner with Warren Buffett (his four offspring received $50m+ each)).

I think the key here is to set the expectations of your children early so that they don't expect to receive the money. From those I've talked to with significant money and what I've read, giving your children too much financially is a disaster for them. They develop the entitlement mentality which is devastating to parents with self made wealth.

My own goals are to achieve my current level of income through self-employment or my own business. I also want to try some creative business structures - traditional structures are too stifling for employees at the bottom. My personal goals are to deepen and enrich my relationships - and try to make a few more friends.

[Bioplasmoid]

Goals. Currently...

a) Improve my career options through more education.

b) Eliminate bad habits, and reach an optimum level of health and fitness.

c) Actually build some of my ideas for various things, instead of critique them in my head endlessly.

d) Find the most compatible long term partner and get Married.

e) Understand every aspect of my psyche, genetics, and consciousness, as time and opportunity permits.

f) Earn over 100K per year, at some point.

g) Live and work in some other countries.

[Vathir]

Haha, oh wow...

I want to fall in love with someone and have a wonderful family.

[jadefalcon]

+ financual independence- I don't want to owe anyone anything.

+ mental maturity- I have achieved this- but in some ways I can be immature at some times. I have reached a level that I am satisfied with.

+ humility- I find this one hard. I want to live my life in humility, but for some reason my name is easily remembered wherever I go.

+ ride the vomit comet- just because.

+ love- it's out there, I'm just not seeking it activly because right now it is not a priority. I'm dreaming if love found me, but that would be fantastic.

[mkay]

I recently quit a cushy six-figure job, so my motivator obviously is not money, lol. I pursued a career in which few people make money, just because I loved it. I worked hard and the money came naturally. I wasn't stupid about the many career choices I made, but money was never the driver. I want to keep learning. I pretty much topped out learning-wise in my first career, so I quit before I got burned out. That industry isn't doing well, but I could've kept at it and still fared well financially and stability-wise. I just wasn't loving it the same way, and I want to love what I do. I've had that, so I know it's possible, and I'm not willing to settle for less. I'm working on launching a second and third career, and I'm excited about that. I might not ever make as much as I did, especially given opportunity cost and such, but there is more to my life than money. It's much more about learning, stretching myself.

Oh, and I guess I qualify as "older," given the forum's demographics. I'm 39. The question about whether I've achieved my goals: My first career, in newspapers, turned out better than I imagined, especially since I wasn't ambitious. In the past year, I've been recruited five times, twice by The New York Times. And I'd already gotten to work at some of the best papers in the country. So my love of journalism far exceeded anything I imagined when I fell into it at age 14.

[Mercury]

I have many life goals, some of which I have accomplished. I have been really blessed with my marriage and kids...I don't know why I am so lucky to have either but I am thankful for my family every single day. My husband and I almost divorced in 2002 but reconciled, and falling back in love with him was one of the most beautiful things to ever happen to me. My children are all healthy, smart, interesting, and happy people. They are good people. I feel honored to be their mother. It is my goal to be the best mother and wife I can be and I work on this daily.

Work goals include:

-write more books
-open a second location for my bookstore
-finish my exercise CD and sell it on an infomercial
-write & produce a movie
-open a hair salon
-open a vegetarian restaurant
-become a certified yoga instructor and open a yoga studio
-get a graduate degree in physics and teach college level

Personal goals include:

-build a straw bale house
-small scale farming
-tweak regular car to run on used car oil
-run a half marathon
-run a full marathon
-reach & maintain my goal weight of 130 pounds
-become fluent in 3 other languages
-work through my shyness issues

I list my goals on 43things, it really helps me: To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.

[matthewpaver]

Throughout the end of high school, during college, and during 3 of 4 years at university, I've always wanted to chase the money. I had a get rich or die trying attitude. Reality has struck several times since then and I understand it can't be just about the money.

My recent example of reality striking is the fact I have recently been made redundant because my fit to the team and company just wasn't good enough. This ALL came down to being an INTJ. As a mentor once said, we look at the sky and see a universe first, then a star, a planet, a continent and finally a person. What they required was someone who saw the detail first and then the bigger picture. They also got tired of me reverting to a comfort zone of constantly trying to improve the team through big ideas which 99% of the time in the business world are unrealistic given time and cost etc... A square peg in a round hole comes to mind.

Anyway, they are supporting me in a transition to an alternative career or route by providing me with a temporary mentor. I know the guy and he's an uber phychologist and is accredited to handle MBTI and the 16PF tests. I did them, he's walked me through the results, and it's scary how accurate he was. He confirmed I am an INTJ. He was suprised I managed to last 12 months as the initial interview MBTI should have picked me out. He has advised that I explore careers/jobs, that allow me to be highly creative, let me use "big ideas" and not detail, and gave examples to start with of marketing, forensics and beign a professor. I've just started this little journey of discovery so it's a very uncertain and pretty scary time seeing as my whole adult life has been targeted at my current path, to find it's very wrong for me.

The more I think about all of the possibilities, the more it gets me motivated and excited to start fresh, but it's still quite gutting to have been going in the wrong direction for so long. He has confirmed to me what I have thought for a long time, that I hate offices and the politics, I hand mundane and repetative tasks, and I don't like being silo'd or being restricted, so what the hell does an INTJ do?

[Grizzly]

Oh, and I guess I qualify as "older," given the forum's demographics. I'm 39. The question about whether I've achieved my goals: My first career, in newspapers, turned out better than I imagined, especially since I wasn't ambitious. In the past year, I've been recruited five times, twice by The New York Times. And I'd already gotten to work at some of the best papers in the country. So my love of journalism far exceeded anything I imagined when I fell into it at age 14.

Congratulation Mkay!
Its great to hear of another success in a field they enjoy.

For me ......... I'm going into space.

I dont care how long it takes, or what I have to do.
The most probably method that I can see right now is to work myself to death in the corpoarate world until I have enough capital or enough partners to build a private company to develop a pharmaceutical production and free fall R&D lab in orbit.

But one day I will float weightless among the stars

In the shorter term, I'm starting my own paintball product company, making aftermarket parts for customizing PB guns.

I suppose spawning a who passel of critters fits in there somewhere too.

[SoupNazi]

for me the difference between being wealthy (say, 2-5m) and very wealthy (tens of millions) is almost nothing, because I don't lead or particularly value an expensive lifestyle.

HOWEVER, I consider the difference between being very wealthy and insanely crazy wealthy to be quite significant.. think of the projects you could undertake with the budget of a country.. I'd value that because I'd see it as an opportunity to achieve extraordinary things.

[Lupin]

Appreciate your view mckay and have real support for you matthewpaver.....I hung on and hung on for financial rewards until I couldn't take the office politics and restrictions any longer. Did all the tests known to man and realised that I had to bite the bullet that big corporates are just not right for INTJs (in my humble opinion). In spite of nearly losing my mental and physical health I did get somewhere....but naturally, using my own power!

Achieved but still enjoying today....

- Got away from the grey UK (life ain't perfect anywhere but enough was enough)
- Educated in UK but also overseas (twice....mainly good experiences)
- Have lived and worked overseas (best experience ever....negotiations, legal stuff etc)
- Built up my second language (so useful and helps break the ice with the natives)
- Learnt to sail and got skipper certificate (took me a while but I got there)
- Learnt to SCUBA (nervous still but so glad I learnt how)
- Bought a small place in France (this was a dream but I just set my sights high & did it)

Still on the slab....and progressing towards

- Intending to stay away from UK (long-term)
- Staying happy by 'keeping it real' and having a balanced life
- Building my small business so I can work independently (forever more)
- Getting my voice back into shape for jazz (so delighted with this)
- Getting a piano and take up lessons again (hurrah for musicality)
- Re-training as a lawyer to get to where I want to be (environmental law within the sustainable development field of international healthcare.....it's a fascinating minefield)
- Now working on new job opportunities/missions overseas as I've just finished my MS course in Strategy for Sustainable Development.
- Would like very much to find a partner who shares my love of creativity, independence and spirit and who lets me be me.

It helps to be financially stable but, clearly, it ain't all about de money!

[rawr]

To work as hard as I can in what ever I'm doing and hopefully keep achieving until I die. Then I would like to Leave everything to any children I may have if I have successfully taught them to be decent people so that they may continue on.

To me retirement is quitting in life. I always have to be working toward something or I feel completely worthless.

[Mafiaangel180]

-Hop a train.
-Hike the Appalachian trail.
-Buy some property.
-Continue writing. (movie, book, tv show, sketch comedy.)
-Travel. Spending a good deal of time in South America.
-Become the bride of Sasquatch. (You think I'm joking? Think of him like an intj with a hair problem.)

[rewhu]

My goals

Career - become a paid writer.

Progress - well, I've always loved to read and write but it never dawned on me that I could make a living doing it. So I majored in accounting in college instead of instead English or screenwriting, etc. About two years ago I suddenly realized that I don't want to be an accountant, and then it occurred to me that I can actually get paid to write. I know the odds of making it rich are pretty slim and I'm honestly ok with that. Working in a field I love is more important to me than a fat paycheck. Right now I'm still working in accounting but I'm talking a playwriting course, which I love. I've nearly completed my first stage play and I've started working on a screenplay that I plan to submit to a contest that's judged by Gus Van Sant. Wish me luck!

[curiousjane]

I am writing my response before reading any answers, just to make sure I'm not influenced to adjust my honest reply.

- Honor God
- Live Simply; Live Well
- Share life with friends and loved ones
- Become financially secure
- Live environmentally aware
- Feel accomplished in my chosen field
- Start my own successful boutique
- Become a published, recognized author with several book titles to my name
- Have a family; Be the best wife/mother I can be.
- See my kids embark on their own adventure through life, knowing I had guided them to that point and am ready to let them fly
- Learn to paint well!
- Own and operate a letterpress printing press
- Sell something on Etsy!
- Own my own home
- Find the joy in all circumstances. Be content. Give selflessly. Thrive.

Not much, huh? :)

[Nanashi]

matthewpaver, if you get any nuggets of wisdom regarding your current metamorphosis, please pass them on. I'm in the process myself of finding a new direction career-wise myself, and I'd be greatly helped by any insights.

[ChrisM]

- never stop learning
- never stop loving/caring/thinking about others
- fulfill my career goals:
- become a respected ccm/countrty studio musician, with at least 5 pgs to my credit on amg (To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.)
- become a respected classical musician later in life (subbing in symphonies, maybe joining one)
- to marry the right lady, and become the man that sees her dreams come true
- In the end.. to have loved my God and his people

[changos]

- Not losing my motivation and desire to learn and live
- stay healthy
- to connect better with people
- make business grow (not for the money... for survival)
- and yes... to find a nice lady to share life with :)

[walfin]

Expenses expand to use up all income available (variation on an old adage).

And don't forget to discount all cashflows to net present value and account for inflation when u make financial goals. :P

That said, I'm heartened that most here hv goals other than making money.

The problem with goals is that once you achieve them, then you have no more direction in life. You could make new goals, but that wouldn't be quite the same.

So sometimes I think it's better to not have a goal, and just take what God gives u.

[ElstonGunn]

The problem with goals is that once you achieve them, then you have no more direction in life. You could make new goals, but that wouldn't be quite the same.

That reminds me: "You know, I have been in the revenge business for so long, now that it's over, I don't know what to do with the rest of my life."

My life goal is just to eat a turkey sandwich. (Symbolically, of course.)

[Tyrant Soup]

My original goal was financial freedom. I'm not particularly materialistic. I don't value status symbols. So I think I reached my goal. I enjoy my line of work, so I'm going to coast for a few months/years until I decide what's next.

I would like to do something that improves the lives of others, but I don't know what. Maybe I'll just lead a life of decadent hedonism instead.....

[Deadgod]

To have enough money for expenses and pleasure, to write a piece and have it premiered with high honors, to conduct the greatest symphonies and conduct for a famous orchestra, have a consistent Metal band and tour everywhere, have a solo Metal project, to continue philosophizing and coming up with new paradigm-breaking ideas, to understand computers fully, to find love, to live everyday meaningfully, and to not die to early or to late but at the right time.





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That reminds me: "You know, I have been in the revenge business for so long, now that it's over, I don't know what to do with the rest of my life."

My life goal is just to eat a turkey sandwich. (Symbolically, of course.)

Turkey sandwich is good to eat when you need to sleep. Lots of tryptophane.
Why would you want to symbolically go to sleep?

[Icristhus]

Hrm. I've been almost entirely directionless for most of my life, though I've always wanted to change that. Recently I settled on the idea of going into Law Enforcement and started toward the education needed for that, and speaking with Military Recruiters about the benefits of enlisting, toward that goal.

Overall, it seems like a good way to make some sort of small difference, somewhere along the line. If I go far enough my long-term goal'd likely be to get into investigations and/or criminal psychology, or something equally fascinating to me.

Anyone else ever considered police work and the likes for a career? It almost seems (to me) like a bad choice considering my MBTI results, but that doesn't change how interested I am in pursuing it.

[ElstonGunn]

Turkey sandwich is good to eat when you need to sleep. Lots of tryptophane.
Why would you want to symbolically go to sleep?

I wasn't thinking of sleep at the time I said that, but I like that. I'll include it in my allegorical desire: "I just want to eat a turkey sandwich and then go to bed." My original point is a lot more clear if you compare a turkey sandwich to a fillet mignon or something of that nature.

I think my other goal is to never give a direct answer to a direct question. :laugh:

[Specto nex]

my one and only is to positively change the world, by any means nesessary. Personally, im going to involve

a)physical perfection- built, not ripped, but mostly focus on a powerfull cardio.

b)mental perfection - 2 phd's and the knowledge to look at them simply as titles (be over them)

c)emotional perfection- absolute zero emotion for any human want or need. (very INTJ ;) )

these are my side goals and goals i plan to complete before i die. Simple.

One side note, impeccable knowledge of the human body and the martial arts.

[INTroJect]

A few main ones:

-Forbes List
-Enlightenment
-Space Travel (earth orbit or maybe go as far as the moon, mars unlikely)
-Continue with learning a new language every 5 years
-Contribute to the positive advancement of humanity where it might seem useful and wise to do so

[Deadgod]

I think my other goal is to never give a direct answer to a direct question. :laugh:

I would categorize that as a life philosophy rather than a goal. A good life philosophy nonetheless. Makes morons think and our inner demons laugh.

[BlueberryMint]

I think the only goal I can generally feel comfortable telling people, who I do not know, is that I wish to always be learning something and to constantly be applying what I learn. I figure from there everything else that I could desire should probably fall into place if I can maintain that simple goal.

[Scorne]

- Learn at least 3 foreign languages fluently.
- Become Knighted.
- Have a son/daughter.
- Learn the guitar professionally and the piano.

More to come, but it's very hot in southern England at the moment..

[ScurvyRose]

I would like to make more than I owe

I want to have everything I need, and a few of my wants

I want to be able to provide at least 75% of what my children want, they can work for the other 25% (still under 10 yrs old), this is on a sliding scale as the get older my % gets lower.

I want to find my kindred spirit in a romance, leading to marriage.

I would like to own a boat, and have a bathroom on it!

Eventually go into business/consulting for myself.

Travel

[Tabemashoo]

Monetary -- Actually, my primary concern is to support my Father, who, at this rate, will never be able to retire. After that's done, I'd like to be able to live comfortably, but not excessively. I don't want to lose my hair over bills, but I don't want to forget the value of a dollar either.

Physical -- Get in shape, to a healthy weight, and stay there

Personal -- Be more patient, more mature. Much more giving, I'm too selfish. More relaxed and fun to be around. Continue to learn things that interest me, and improve my self-confidence.

Family/Love Life -- Don't want to be lonely forever, but no need to rush. I'm not really a kid person, but don't know how that will change in the future.

Other -- I would like to do Social Justice in some way (not related to my job), as my way of improving the world for future generations. How I will do this I"m not sure, but things have a way of falling into my lap like that, so I'm not worried.

[True Rune]

I do want to travel, but I don't really care about making a bunch of money.
But my goals are to become a master martial artist and to serve God by becoming a missionary. (And of course expand my knowledge to be known as "wise beyond my years".)

[Dave C C]

Retirment, and I do not care how much money I have as long as my nearest neighbor is no nearer then 2 miles away.

[Caucus]

Goals

*Become a forensic psychologist/anthropologist/pathologist or criminal investigator. (still deciding)
*Move overseas - most probably to the US.
*Eventually (after I have my career sorted) get married and start a family.
*Travel the world
*Spend a year working in a 3rd world country
*Maintain good physical health and fitness throughout my life.

[Julien]

Freedom, first and foremost.

My goal in life is to live (according to my standards).

"Become who you are." ("Du sollst werden, der du bist") - Nietzsche.

[saakeli]

To get enough money and connections to kill the people who bought my family lands. Seriously. It was a desperate situation and those helsinki-yuppies came with their cash and bought everything with bargain price, due to that I believe they deserve to die.

[Monte314]

You don't know the outcome of the game until you see the final score.
In life as a whole, like just about everything else, it's not about how you start... it's about how you finish. I want to finish strong.

When I'm on my deathbed, I want to be able to look back over a life spent making a positive difference in peoples lives in a way that affects eternity. People are the only things God ever made that will last forever; I want to have an everlasting impact, and that means affecting people.

[JRR]

I think the key here is to set the expectations of your children early so that they don't expect to receive the money. From those I've talked to with significant money and what I've read, giving your children too much financially is a disaster for them. They develop the entitlement mentality which is devastating to parents with self made wealth.

My own goals are to achieve my current level of income through self-employment or my own business. I also want to try some creative business structures - traditional structures are too stifling for employees at the bottom. My personal goals are to deepen and enrich my relationships - and try to make a few more friends.
I think the key here is to set the expectations of your children early so that they don't expect to receive the money. From those I've talked to with significant money and what I've read, giving your children too much financially is a disaster for them. They develop the entitlement mentality which is devastating to parents with self made wealth.

I think this is the key... I didn't grow up with money, but my parents provided ways for us to develop skills, and we lived near good schools. Both instilled a love for learning, and being fairly self-sufficient. In turn, my husband is not very materialistic, either. We want to teach our children to value service and education, and not the newest pair of designer jeans or the largest house in the neighborhood.

Now having said that, we also save, pay our bills, and work at our school debts.... it is stressful to be broke, and so we value living within our means, but also having money to give away to others, to charities, etc...

[oldness]

A few personal goals of mine:

- I want people actively engaging my work hundreds of years after my death. I want a 13 year old kid in the year 2278 to pick up one my records and go: "Damn, this guy got it. Maybe I can get it, too..."
- I'd love to make enough money to fund my mother's early retirement.
- I want to meet the woman.
- I'd like to own a nice apartment in New York.
- I'd like to expatriate with my loved one to an isolated chalet (surrounded by verdant meadows, of course) in the Swiss Alps. I would install a recording studio in the basement and work in blissful isolation.
- I'd love my art to somehow infiltrate the mainstream. Not that I give a damn about the mainstream, I'd just love the opportunity to mess with it from the inside.

[notjeffgoldblum]

So my main goal in life is to have a happy family and have children that I can look on and say that they can do whatever they want to do.

What if your kids want to spend their inheritance on hookers and drugs for the rest of their lives?





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When I'm on my deathbed, I want to be able to look back over a life spent making a positive difference in peoples lives in a way that affects eternity. People are the only things God ever made that will last forever; I want to have an everlasting impact, and that means affecting people.

Is eternity the same thing as the amount of time it takes for the human population to become extinct?

[curio]

Life goals? Something along the lines of... making the best decisions possible (in career, love, & family). Perhaps this is more often a goal for INTPs than INTJs? I find it incredibly difficult to stop considering all possible choices and settling on just one. Everything has it's own appeal to me.

So. This is where I wish I were an INTJ for the sake of having some sort of decision-making capabilities.

[Zeal]

I'd like to achieve financial freedom, and them spend my time researching in subjects that interest me. I feel inspired when I walk into a bookstore or library and see mountains of knowledge. I feel driven when I think of those who shaped our world, and I think that I would obtain the greatest pleasure in life by achieving something similar.

Oh, and space travel.

[Mariam]

Well, my goal simply is to find my way back home..
to the first home of humans..
to the Unlost Paradise..
how? Bring out the best of my self.. and help others to do the same too..

[methionine]

I'm still young, but here are some of my life goals... highly idealistic...:

Mostly, I just want a family to support and be supported by. I want to find somebody who is loyal/dependable, honest, and interesting (so I always have fun things to discuss. haha).
I want to keep learning in everything I do, and share that love of learning with people around me. Whatever I do, I just have to keep learning. This makes me lean towards pursuing something science-related career-wise. I might consider getting a Ph D. I want to be decently well-off money-wise; the earlier years of my childhood were marked by relative poverty.

-live in my country of origin for a several years. I don't think I will want to live there permanently though.
-become a national park ranger for a year or two. I know this might sound a little silly, but it seems like a pretty cool job-- you get to be knowledgeable about astronomy, earth science, physics, chemistry, biology/ecology... teach people about it, and hang out in the great outdoors... :P

[Max T]

My life goal is to know where I'll die so I can avoid the place.

Failing that, the goal would be to receive a state funeral.
Since there's no better judge of your success than that of the masses.

(R.I.P. to the 151 Madrid airport flight victims).

[BlackMita]

I figure life is only going to get worse, so I might as well shoot unrealistically high in terms of life goals. Better to be miserable in the future with achieved dreams, than to be miserable in the future having settled for whatever.

- Develop the artistic skills necessary to create animated shorts that uplift the soul.

- Find work that's challenging, pays the bills, and isn't completely meaningless.

- To stay creative, productive, and to always be learning new things.

- To be on good terms with people I like and/or must interact with.

- Learn one musical instrument really well.

- Make dozens of earth shattering mistakes, and have the people I care about come out with only bruises.

- Learn to 'work a room' and have killer public speaking skills.

- Adopt kids who need a good family unit (providing said family unit).

- Know how to win in a physical fight.

- Find a God that doesn't suck.

[doublethink]

Become a damn good doctor.

Have a family.

Write at least one book.

Learn as much as I possibly can besides all things medical-related.


Everything else is inconsequential.

[Jenny Penny]

I would like to get an advanced degree (right now it's looking to be a master's in info security)
Be financially stable (wealthy, if possible:)
Learn to invest
Make a difference in the lives of others
Get married and/or find long-term healthy relationship and maybe have children (or adopt)
Become conversationally fluent in Spanish
Travel to as many foreign countries I can
Write a novel
Do a triathalon
Find a job I love
Be in good health
At the end of my life, feel like I've lived my best life

[jadefalcon]

Sadly life revolves around money. My life goals are not to make money but I will need it. I have my life's goals set in mind in the back of my head, thanks for allowing me to bring them into the spotlight. I will probably print out my post and keep it in sight. In no particular order:


Short Term (within 5 years)
- Complete an Engineering Degree at Penn State
- Begin working in my industry of choice (defense or model kits)
- Establish my foot in the door of my own home or apartment
- Learn and retain Japanese language

Long Term (over 5 years from now)
- Find love (hey, it could happen, she will be the luckiest woman on the Earth)
- Buy a permanent home (compound) and have room for my toys (RC stuff). Have a woodworking shop, area to build models, model display room and a room for my collections.
- Have a sword dojo with a patio area at the end with fountains and various easy to maintain flora.
- Build a robot simulator featuring the title "Steel Batallion" and wire large speakers to the thing. Also good for Ace Combat simulator.
- Go solar on my home.
- Learn the violin, flute, or guitar.

[salsipuedes]

Be honorable. Have and express integrity.

Let other people go to their doom... if they insist. Stop killing myself trying to make everything work out right. It won't. That was hard to learn.

Finally have a novel or novels published, not just written.

Find more joy and express it.

See my kids continue to do well, now that they're on their feet. Help them if I can, if they need help.

Stay with my sweetheart always.

Never move to a new place again unless I choose to.

Become very, very old.

[meidepractical]

I just want to make a difference. Heres a quote by Hermann Hesse to explain myself. "if after all, men cannot always make history have a meaning. They can always act so that their own lives have one"

[aok]

There was a short time where I thought of accumulating money at the expense of all other things. After awhile I accumulated a bit of money...and realized I wanted to do something more intrinsically satisfying. Money is definitely important on the level of security and freedom...but when I was only focusing on that I started to feel a bit vacant after awhile because other things were neglected.

[clam]

my life goal is simple: to be able to sacrifice my time for those i care for and develop a core sense of morality which will not be broken with tests of physical nor mental hardships.

[wayne]

I'm 24 and I feel lost. I'm not really sure where I want to go, and how I want to get there. I am not sure how I want to relate to others. Even still, tentatively, it makes sense to me that the primary objective in life is to experience EVERYTHING. Here's MY to-do list:

-Most people want a high-status job. I'll achieve VP in the bank that I'm working for just to see how it feels. It'll only take approx 15-20 years.
-After I become VP, I'll probably get a minimum wage job at MacDonalds, just to ground myself and give myself perspective.
-Money. Heaps of it. I want a $30 million CAD estate, with an indoor motorcycle racetrack. It might not be all that, but I'll try it on for size :D
-Experience how it feels like to wear a $6000 suit. Made-to-measure Armani.
-Fucking hot bitches. Many of them.
-Meeting and connecting with great people, as per INTJ standards.
-Meet that ESFP soulmate. Marriage. Children.
-Pilot my own jet/helicopter.
-Sleep with a man? Maybe? Not sure about this one though... Probably not.
-Travel the world and experience all the finer things.
-Being generous and helping people. Just to see how it feels. Who knows, it might stick.
-Commit an elaborate victimless crime. Like a heist. Maybe.

So you see where I'm coming from. When I say everything I mean almost everythinig.

~~Wayne

[Autoptic]

1.Get degree.
2.Get job/money.
3.Actually live in my own residence.
4.?

There's acquiring an acceptable female, no marriage or kids, but I can't put that one in any order as it's a crap shoot. Beyond that I have little experience to say, but most categories of things a human can potentially do suck, so there's die when things terminally suck.

[Krazy P]

I have financial, spiritual, physical, family, educational, emotional, marital - a variety of goals.

I have achieved most of them - the last major goal is to hike the PCT with my grandchild.

When I was working on my masters, I took a break in the library and read a magazine article about goal setting - and specifically about writing one's goals down.

I thought - "I don't need to write my goals down..."

Then I read the list of famous folks who wrote their goals down, reviewed them daily and updated them as often as weekly... Winston Churchill, Henry Kissinger, Presidents, tycoons, athletes, etc.

I started writing my goals down, keeping track, and it has a big impact.

At the time a started I was a college dropout. A few years later I became a CEO (have been for over 25 years), 5 children (3 went to Yale, 1 to Tufts, 1 still in school), married over 30 years, toured the world, watched thousands of caribou migrate in the Arctic, swum in the Arctic ocean, toured St Petersburg during its 300 year anniversary, lost a Supreme Court Case and then 9 months later had a new law enacted overturning the ruling (John Roberts was our attorney when we lost back in the 90s), etc. etc.

I am a big fan of goals, goal setting, writing them down and reviewing them.

[Monte314]

A majority of the threads in this section seem to imply that money is the driving motivator in life but no one seems to put a limit on how much money they want.

John D. Rockefeller was asked once, "How much money is enough?"

His answer: "Just a little bit more."

[Autoptic]

How much more food, water, or air would you like to have?

[xtremegeek]

For me, it's not about money. I earn my keep just fine. My life's goal is to learn how to peacefully coexist with other life forms. That's a bigger challenge than earning money.

[Nanashi]

When I was working on my masters, I took a break in the library and read a magazine article about goal setting - and specifically about writing one's goals down.

I thought - "I don't need to write my goals down..."

Then I read the list of famous folks who wrote their goals down, reviewed them daily and updated them as often as weekly... Winston Churchill, Henry Kissinger, Presidents, tycoons, athletes, etc.

I started writing my goals down, keeping track, and it has a big impact.

At the time a started I was a college dropout. A few years later I became a CEO .

thank you this was very helpful to me.

[Cake]

-live a stress free life (financially and socially)
-maintain a successful network of friends

-have a really, really hot wife.

[nat]

Goals?
Make my own company, let someone take over the ownership while still giving me some of the benefits, build an (or more) orphanage, insert stuffs and things into their young head and free them. Away.

Liiiiike that. Or so.

[Chucklebug]

My life goal is to know where I'll die so I can avoid the place.

:laugh: agreed - now waste your whole life trying to foretell the future.

My most recent life goal (it changes approximately on a fortnightly basis) is to experience everything. But since I have to start somewhere my first set of goals are...

1. Get a degree in environmental science.
2. Lose weight.
3. Learn about philosophy in general.
4. Learn about psychology.

Methione Quote: become a national park ranger for a year or two. I know this might sound a little silly, but it seems like a pretty cool job-- you get to be knowledgeable about astronomy, earth science, physics, chemistry, biology/ecology... teach people about it, and hang out in the great outdoors... :P

Man you stole my idea, totally agree with you. Strange I never thought I would ever want to be a park ranger, still not sure but I'm sure I want to try it.