Two Thousand Ten Goals

[Marc Majcher]

- Ruthlessly excise from my life things that are not either useful or beautiful - or both.

This assumes an ability to immediately determine what's useful and beautiful. In my experience both of these sometimes take years to reveal themselves.

That's fine - most of the stuff I'm looking at here has been sitting around for years.

[Chelley]

2009 started out great and then began sucking big hairy monkey balls.

2010 has to be better

Goals:

1. Get out of credit card debt. (Stolen from Asaf. Thank you.)

2. Begin a writing routine and stick to it.

3. Write at least 2 TV specs and one feature spec.

4. Continue with Improv - Taking more classes and playing more and more shows.

5. Write and begin producing the web series I've been working on.

6. Begin eat healthy.

7. Start working out again

8. Create a Joss Whedon Improv Format.

9. Pay my bills on time, every time.

10. Move into a house so my dog has a back yard to run around in.

I'm sure there are plenty more but that's what I have right now.

[Asaf]

8. Create a Joss Whedon Improv Format.

oooooooh


Also, you're not getting out of debt by stealing.

[Chelley]

Also, you're not getting out of debt by stealing.

But if I still enough money then I could pay off my debts. Right... right?

[valetoile]

...
3. Get rid of more excess possesions, including my cello. Would anyone like to buy a very nice cello?
...

Nooooooooo! Keep the cello! How many people can (honestly) say that they play the cello, much less have one? A nice one! I still have the common, boring ol' tenor sax that I played from my junior high through my Longhorn Band days. Granted, I haven't played it in 30 years, but I might some day. On a bet. I only wish it was as cool as a cello.

But I can't honestly say I play the cello. I have been keeping it for all these years because I want to be the type of person who plays the cello, just like I buy books about the things I want to learn. But wanting to be that type of person is not the same as being that type of person, and it's better to accept that I am who I am, and that person does not play the cello. But that person will seel her cello to someone she knows, so she can go visit if she really misses it.

See, I want to be the person I am even more so, instead of wishing to be a possible person I could be.

[KathyRose]

... 3. Get rid of more excess possesions, including my cello. Would anyone like to buy a very nice cello? ...

Nooooooooo! Keep the cello! How many people can (honestly) say that they play the cello, much less have one? A nice one! ...

But I can't honestly say I play the cello. I have been keeping it for all these years because I want to be the type of person who plays the cello, just like I buy books about the things I want to learn. But wanting to be that type of person is not the same as being that type of person, and it's better to accept that I am who I am, and that person does not play the cello. But that person will seel her cello to someone she knows, so she can go visit if she really misses it.

See, I want to be the person I am even more so, instead of wishing to be a possible person I could be.

Oh.
Wow.
You have grown in wisdom, Grasshopper.

[bradisntclever]

...
3. Get rid of more excess possesions, including my cello. Would anyone like to buy a very nice cello?
...

Nooooooooo! Keep the cello! How many people can (honestly) say that they play the cello, much less have one? A nice one! I still have the common, boring ol' tenor sax that I played from my junior high through my Longhorn Band days. Granted, I haven't played it in 30 years, but I might some day. On a bet. I only wish it was as cool as a cello.

But I can't honestly say I play the cello. I have been keeping it for all these years because I want to be the type of person who plays the cello, just like I buy books about the things I want to learn. But wanting to be that type of person is not the same as being that type of person, and it's better to accept that I am who I am, and that person does not play the cello. But that person will seel her cello to someone she knows, so she can go visit if she really misses it.

See, I want to be the person I am even more so, instead of wishing to be a possible person I could be.

I used to play the cello a very long time ago. I think I'm too far removed from it to pick it up again, however. Not really a goal for 2010.

[Rev. Jordan T. Maxwell]

here are some of the potential goals swirling around in my head...

1. finally get troupe together for pulp hero improv format. potentially get them to do alternate history and caper formats as well.

2. study kung fu again.

3. go on a date in Los Angeles. doesn't even have to be a good one. just prove that you still can.

4. contemplate a Neil Gaiman improv format since someone already called dibs on the Joss Whedon one.

5. start booking voice over auditions.

6. get more aggressive about treating my acting as a career instead of a side project.

7. write and make short film, The Headshot of Doreen Gray.

8. figure out what medium Icons should be in and rewrite it already.

9. write. write. write.

10. make Avril Lavigne parody video.

that is all for now...

[apiaryist]

Two thousand and ten goals is too many.

[Jon Bolden]

Two thousand and ten goals is too many.

Baazzzziiinggg!

[Brian Boyko]

1) Start new job in New Zealand
2) Lose 60 pounds in 6 months.
3) Start improv troupe in Tauranga
4) Finish book
5) Finish movie
6) Finish Buddy Miles side-project
7) Bungee jump.
Skydive.
9) Pitch my own game show.

[bradisntclever]

Here is an excellent link for some advice on making resolutions stick.

[Meghan W]

1. finish my thesis

2. graduate from college

3. find a post-college job I will enjoy for at least a year

4. develop some goals that are not linked to the most immediate events in my life

5. be more truthful with myself and others

[smerlin]

Be on time.

Which for me means not trying to optimize every minute and get things done whenever I can. Leave a little empty space and get there early.

[bradisntclever]

1. finish my thesis

This sounds like a Plan II-er in the home stretch. Hang in there!