2013 Goals

[Pascal]

Non-poker goals gogoogo

- Get 2:1 in degree
- Don't start smoking again
- Get fit
- Dress smarter
- Learn another language conversationally (probably Serbian)
- Be cleaner
- Have some adventures between after exams and end of year

[BennyLaRue]

730 orgasms

[Hawk]

Mostly stuff relating to my health and finances.

-Find a better job
-Limit fast food/restaurant meals to 1/week and drink 0-1 cans of soda per day (excluding Coke with alcohol).
-No more than 1 bag-o-weed per paycheck.
-Run 1000 miles and a half marathon.
-Figure out and get into some sort of strength training routine.
-Keep up on housework, I'm sick of living in such a mess.

[BankItDrew]

So far, FTR sounds like a bunch of lazy dirty people.

~ Read one book each month
~ Keep credit card paid off each month
~ Double stock portfolio equity
~ Surprise my gf at least once each month (excluding facials)
~ Eat well, drink less, exercise more
~ Renovate bathroom and install new garage door
~ Wake up earlier regularly

[wufwugy]

All decisions are correct decisions

[JKDS]

Straight As for two semesters
ABS!!!

[donkbee]

730 orgasms

impressive

My only goal is to work more than my pitiful avg of 15 hrs a week or whatever it was in 2012.

I also need to gain 5 lbs, so I guess my other goal is to eat?

[!Luck]

To lick the back of my neck

[lolzzz_321]

pass three remaining cpa exams

[Luco]

Stop smoking (day 6 tobacco free so far)
No more than 1 bag-o-weed per paycheck (failing this one so far, I'm on monthly pay)
Two holidays abroad

[BankItDrew]

I've always hated the idea of resolutions for the New year. I believe that if you want to change something or do something badly enough - you'll do it when you want to badly enough.

This hasn't worked for me. So I made resolutions.

[kiwiMark]

impressive

I would be surprised if less than 50% of FTR hit this target each year tbh

[Pascal]

I've always hated the idea of resolutions for the New year. I believe that if you want to change something or do something badly enough - you'll do it when you want to badly enough.

This hasn't worked for me. So I made resolutions.

Agreed, I didn't make any resolutions. I waited a few days and decided what I wanted from this year and wrote it done. Won't do all of it for various reasons but at least it's something to aim for right

[kiwiMark]

Smoking my last baggie of weed now, then nothing until March. I live so much more cheaply without

[rong]

1. Get fit.
2. Double salary.
3. Make £2k from poker. (part time playing max $25nl)

[jyms]

New apartment, new job and rebuild the bankroll to a reasonable level. Nothing too frivolous this year.

[Jack Sawyer]

1. Get and maintain proper workout ethic
2. Finish what I start
3. Start my own company
4. Enjoy life
5. Not neglect/ forget about people who are important to me
6. Do one thing that scares me daily

[ilikeaces86]

1. Gain 10 lbs of lean muscle while eating Paleo.

[a500lbgorilla]

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[Chelle]

1) Get my mental health completely in-check.

2) Attempt getting enrolled in college, to get a start on being a LPC [which takes 6 years total, btw, always hated the school/social atmosphere]

3) Get back to doing an on-going passion I've had in my life. Art. [Currently working on a rather large sketch of a naked fairy-bitch on a mushroom, gonna' be adding a cat, being all "watdafux is dis?!1?", oh, then I'mma go over it in oil paint, atm it's a charcoal outline/sketch thingy.]

4) Get my next tattoo, oh, and the next tattoo I have planned.

5) Get ridiculously tiny again [Well, not ridiculously, just, you know, less than 113lbs, which is my current weight, weeee! Btw, much better than my weight this time last year.]

6) Not be as hard on myself. [This could probably go under the mental-health shit, but, whatever.]

[kiwiMark]

number one sounds like it contradicts number six a teeny wee bit, but glglgl

[Da GOAT]

Everything was accomplished in 2012, time to put my feet up.

[bode]

1. Rehab and sell 2 houses this year for a min $15k profit each.
2. Finish my last 2 registration exams by July.
3. Lose 30 lbs.

[Luco]

1. Get and maintain proper workout ethic
2. Finish what I start
3. Start my own company
4. Enjoy life
5. Not neglect/ forget about people who are important to me
6. Do one thing that scares me daily

Number 6, wtf... I could see that as a weekly goal, but daily?

Do you have examples? Like riding a shopping cart downhill scary, or giving rilla a sponge bath scary?

[Hawk]

Number 6, wtf... I could see that as a weekly goal, but daily?

Do you have examples? Like riding a shopping cart downhill scary, or giving rilla a sponge bath scary?

Look at spiders once per day.

[Poker Orifice]

Work less (so I can play more.... poker)

[Luco]

- Don't start smoking again

When did you quit and how's it going? I haven't had a cig since the 2nd

[Pascal]

When did you quit and how's it going? I haven't had a cig since the 2nd

Quit beginning of December and kept it up til I went on holiday over New Year. Didn't smoke first day, then smoked a full pack of Malboro Red longs (lol) on the second day and pretty much lost my voice haha. Had another pack or two over the next 3 days then haven't smoked since, I guess it's since the 4th or so.

Was expecting to smoke on holiday anyway, cigs are so fucking cheap and everyone smokes all the time (in pubs, restaurants, bars, houses) and I was drunk most the week.

Keep it up man

[Luco]

I haven't been brave enough to drink yet, too much association

Thanks, you too

[Pascal]

Drinking the first time after I quit (bout two weeks after) was way easier than I was expecting, but I think that was just because none of my friends smoke and we weren't near any shops.

Test will be going out when you can easily get cigs

[jackvance]

Was expecting to smoke on holiday anyway, cigs are so fucking cheap and everyone smokes all the time (in pubs, restaurants, bars, houses) and I was drunk most the week.

Where are these mythical places where you can smoke in bars and pubs, I miss them..

[Pascal]

Serbia

[eugmac]

I haven't been brave enough to drink yet, too much association

Thanks, you too

Good luck.

I was never a heavy smoker (took me 3 days to finish a pack) but it still took a good couple weeks to feel "ok". At this point it's just your brain playing tricks on you. You might wake up to a dream where somebody offers you a drag and you are like OMG CANNOT RESIST GIMME... AHHHH fuck yeah. why did I even quit in the first place...

I read somewhere that there's a medical explanation for that dream too, something about your lungs expunging whatever remnants of cig smoke there are in there and your nose actually picking up these subtle smells in your sleep, causing you to dream about it.

[eugmac]

goals: get married (already engaged, so this just involves not letting the relationship fall to pieces before the summer), get an well paying job in an awesome orchestra, enjoy life even more than i did in 2012.

[Luco]

I've quit several times before and forgotten all about the smoking dreams. You've pretty much guaranteed I'll get one tonight, thanks.

[eugmac]

Well now you know there's a medical explanation for it, so you know it's a normal phenomenon that we all go through. Together we can do it.

Not helping?

[jackvance]

Serbia

I find it very annoying I have to go outside to smoke nowadays, although if I think about it objectively, it was probably a change for the better to ban it.

I honestly don't see myself quitting at this point though. Maybe when married.

[ISillyDurrrAK]

Poker goals: win at least 10K

[agnesamurphy]

I'm gonna post my business goals because you will all laugh at my personal goals.

2013 Goals and Plan to Accomplish Goals
• Average 2000 monthly visitors per month by February 2013
• Monthly visit to lead ratio of 2% by April 2013 (40 leads per month)
• Monthly lead to customer ratio of 5% by June 2013 (two new customers per month out of the 40 leads)
• 1000 Twitter followers
• 500 Facebook fans
• Launch Stirring Standard by October 2013
• Hire one employee
• Build a customer base of 50 clients by year’s end
• $100,000 in revenue by year’s end
• Conduct a One Year Blogging Case Study – This is where I will blog every day for one year, starting January 1, 2013. I will commit to blogging best practices, and through this experiment I want to show what great blogging can do for you if you keep at it and do it regularly. The tagline for the blog will be “saving the world, one day at a time.”

2013 Goals Plan
• Create my case studies – In 2013, a couple of clients will make one year, so I’m going to do a case study of those clients at the one year mark and chronicle what I did for them and what the results are. These case studies are meant to be lead generation offers to show what Stirring Media has done for others. Here are the case studies I plan to do:
o Amnesty – February
o Nitrofleet99 – April
o Allied Offices – June
o TelAssistant – August
• Do the Business Blogging Classes that I Planned – I have a venue finally, so now I need to set up a date and time (or a few, if the first class is a huge success). With this, I hope to build a stronger St. Louis base and perhaps generate leads this way by meeting people in person and showing them business blogging in a manner that’s familiar to more people.
• Get My News Guru Blog Going – This is the second Stirring Media business blog that’s up and running, but it doesn’t get a whole lot of attention. It needs more attention.
• Continue Current Blogging Effort on The Chief Editorial Officer – Keep that up by publishing three times per week. It’s been working well so far.
• Improve Email Follow Ups to Offers – These emails are meant to move prospects through the buying cycle and to further qualify them as a lead. This way, they don’t download something from us and never hear from us again. Instead, each offer will come with a series of emails that keep them in touch with us and introduce them to additional offers. We have this implemented to an extent, but we can do better by adding more follow up emails and adding these emails to more offers.
• Improving Current Web Pages – Our web pages our good, but they can be better. They can have more and/or better calls to action on them. The content can be improved as well.
• Utilize Contractors Better and More Often – I’m going to need contractors to do more client work and to do some of our own marketing. This will mean that I need to choose them carefully and communicate what I need from them really well. Contractors will still be used even if an employee is hired.

[d0zer]

My goal is to keep up my drinking, cheat on my wife, and just feel more like a boss about everything without actually changing anything

[eugmac]

I've quit several times before and forgotten all about the smoking dreams. You've pretty much guaranteed I'll get one tonight, thanks.

so did you get one?

[BennyLaRue]

My goal is to keep up my drinking, cheat on my wife, and just feel more like a boss about everything without actually changing anything

Do you have any sort of pamphlet or newsletter I can subscribe to?

[daven]

run personal bests over 5km and half marathon distances
complete a triathlon
climb grade 27 (5.12d)
climb Mt Aspiring
learn to ski
brew at least 12 batches of wine
reduce my mortgage by over 10%
spend some time in South America and/or xmas 2013 in Europe
continue enjoying life

[Luco]

so did you get one?

Nope, all quiet

[Pascal]

What about tonight?

[XTR1000]

I shall make it into the top ten in europes mtb dh series and play 10k hands this year. Bonus awarded for getting along with the girl well and traveling to ad many places as possible

[Jack Sawyer]

Number 6, wtf... I could see that as a weekly goal, but daily?

Do you have examples? Like riding a shopping cart downhill scary, or giving rilla a sponge bath scary?

I don't really, other than climbing mountains (Tom Cruise in MI2 opening) and then standing close to the ledge, or going skydiving, or swim in open waters, or hang gliding, or going in caves, etc.

It's about getting the heart racing, reminding you that you are alive and you should cherish every fucking second

[rong]

I don't really, other than climbing mountains (Tom Cruise in MI2 opening) and then standing close to the ledge, or going skydiving, or swim in open waters, or hang gliding, or going in caves, etc.

It's about getting the heart racing, reminding you that you are alive and you should cherish every fucking second

Gonna be tricky to squeeze that kinda shit into each and every day.

[Chelle]

1) Get my mental health completely in-check.

2) Attempt getting enrolled in college, to get a start on being a LPC [which takes 6 years total, btw, always hated the school/social atmosphere]

3) Get back to doing an on-going passion I've had in my life. Art. [Currently working on a rather large sketch of a naked fairy-bitch on a mushroom, gonna' be adding a cat, being all "watdafux is dis?!1?", oh, then I'mma go over it in oil paint, atm it's a charcoal outline/sketch thingy.]

4) Get my next tattoo, oh, and the next tattoo I have planned.

5) Get ridiculously tiny again [Well, not ridiculously, just, you know, less than 113lbs, which is my current weight, weeee! Btw, much better than my weight this time last year.]

6) Not be as hard on myself. [This could probably go under the mental-health shit, but, whatever.]

So uh - bumping the shit out of this.

1) Half way there.
2) Fall 2014 it's happenin', bitches.
3) 3 3/4 pretty fucking awesome oil paintings done. One very large one just started. Going to be submitting a beach painting into a contest thing at a very large local fair.
4) Second tattoo has been attained - next one is currently still being designed.
5) I'm 101 pounds - succccckkkk ittttttt.
6) Still struggle with this, as I'm sure everyone does - but, I'm being more loving towards myself.

woop woop

[d0zer]

My goal is to keep up my drinking, cheat on my wife, and just feel more like a boss about everything without actually changing anything

UPDATE! All my goals have been accomplished except for the wife cheating, it's really hard to make time for that with 2 kids

[Tom1559]

Qualify for the next WSOP
Stay healthy
Final table in Sunday Million on PS

[Pelion]

3) 3 3/4 pretty fucking awesome oil paintings done. One very large one just started. Going to be submitting a beach painting into a contest thing at a very large local fair.

It seems only fair to post some pictures.

[Poker Orifice]

Work less (so I can play more.... poker)

Working less & playing less poker.
Goal for rest of the year > spend more time with family including having grandaughter move into my place.
Maybe I'll play more poker then... she likes watching online poker "Pitchers! ... pitchers?"

[Chelle]

The first one of the year





Second one of the year - was actually a Valentine's day gift to boyfrand.




Not signed off on this one - so, not finished.



Sometimes I paint how I feel.



The most recent one I started - it's pretty big. 12 by 36 inches.

[Pelion]

Those are pretty cool. The top one especially seems very Alice in Wonderland.

How long does something like that take you?

[Chelle]

Thank you. The cat is suppose to just be appearing out of thin air, which is why it's colors are all wonky. The fairy is being playful, obviously.

Depending on if I'm in a painting mood - anywhere between a week and a month. I work with oil paint, and it takes a bit of time for it to dry, especially if you want texture, and I do. I've sat and painted 5+ hours at once, I get completely sucked into it when I actually sit and allow myself to focus on the art alone. That's when I do my best, when I'm not rushing. It's kind of like a form of therapy/meditation for me.

[ChipEaterMan]

I want to buy this one. How much is it?

[Chelle]

I want to buy this one. How much is it?

Even though I'm glad you're interested, I'm probably not going to sell any of my paintings any time soon. But thank you, I take that as a compliment.

[jackvance]

So far 2013 has exceeded even my wildest dreams and expectations. Let's see how it goes from here. I have many things planned still.

[Pascal]

Sick bump!

Non-poker goals gogoogo

- Get 2:1 in degree - tick
- Don't start smoking again - smoked on and off all year but not smoked for 2 weeks or so now!
- Get fit - getting there, eating tons better since exams and been to gym 3 times this week now I'm back in my new flat
- Dress smarter - tick
- Learn another language conversationally (probably Serbian) - nope
- Be cleaner - tick
- Have some adventures between after exams and end of year - not yet!

[aubreymcfate]

i've played more piano, done more improvisation, and composed more music today than i have in ages. and it feels fucking great. that's a goal right there currently being accomplished.

[BankItDrew]

So far, FTR sounds like a bunch of lazy dirty people.

~ Read one book each month
~ Keep credit card paid off each month
~ Double stock portfolio equity
~ Surprise my gf at least once each month (excluding facials)
~ Eat well, drink less, exercise more
~ Renovate bathroom and install new garage door
~ Wake up earlier regularly

LOLOLOL

I read zero books.
My credit card is inconsistently paid off.
I sold my portfolio.
My gf and I broke up in July, probably because I rarely surprised her.
I'm getting fatter.
I painted the bathroom but nothing else to garage or bathroom.
I still wake up at noon every day.

Things that are awesome right now and were unforeseen:
I'm single.
I sold my house for a lot more than I thought I could.
I plan to move to Vancouver in 6 weeks.

[jyms]

New apartment, new job and rebuild the bankroll to a reasonable level. Nothing too frivolous this year.

Got a new job and a new apartment but I too am looking to maybe move to the Vancouver Island by the end of October as well. If I do it's because I won't be single.

Bankroll sucks (Sub $100) from playing above my roll and not playing/studying which is stupid considering I can play on Stars and have a ton of free time and no money. I've played 42000 hands this year, I used to do that in a month

[BankItDrew]

We could be besties! It's funny because we already live really close to each other...

[JL]

Damn all you east coast people moving over here and causing housing to be so damn expensive.

[jyms]

Nah, my place will already be rented. I'm not coming as a single.



Drew, I might look you up on my drive through.

[Jack Sawyer]

1. Get and maintain proper workout ethic
2. Finish what I start
3. Start my own company
4. Enjoy life
5. Not neglect/ forget about people who are important to me
6. Do one thing that scares me daily

1. -14kg bitches
2. Still working on that
3. Done. Fuck taxes, brah
4. Life is beautiful. This one probably warrants a barrage of posts in and of its own, but I plan to do that in the bar. i'm gearing up for a grand reopening
5. Still wrkingon this as well, but so far it seems i have either failed miserably or truly realized who were important to me.
6. This was by far the hardest one, so I had to tone it down from daily to weekly. Wonderful.

[Jack Sawyer]

Get Fit 2K14 thread?

[aubreymcfate]

what kinds of things scare you that you can do weekly?

[Jack Sawyer]

Swim farther away from shore than you've ever dared; climb a mountain and stare in the distance over its steep side; mountain biking and going as fast as you can in trails, etc. In Spain I'd go for the bullrun, in Greece I'd wander close to an active volcano

[aubreymcfate]

Swim farther away from shore than you've ever dared; climb a mountain and stare in the distance over its steep side; mountain biking and going as fast as you can in trails, etc. In Spain I'd go for the bullrun, in Greece I'd wander close to an active volcano

guess i'm more badass than you 'cause i was in the crater itself, hovering over boiling sulfuric pits

i actually swam pretty far from shore this summer. it's much nicer when there are no waves. waves just make it exhausting and unnecessarily frightening.

those are good ideas though... wish i had a mountain nearby to climb up. next time i go to mt. olympus i'm definitely climbing it, no question.

[wufwugy]

reaching across the tub to retrieve rubber ducky doesn't constitute "swam far from shore"