What are your goals for 2023?

[bene_legionary]

- Get my driver's license. My friends are all getting them while I had a tough year last year so I'm going to have to push through it this year. I have almost the whole road code in my head so I can probably get the learner's permit pretty easily but the only chances I'll get to do the practical stuff might be the weekends.
- Commit to continually learn Spanish every day. I've noticed I'm incredibly lazy and I wonder how much better I might have been if I did the hours and actually studied every day. I wouldn't have to learn the past tenses over for the third time : ) but I think I got them this time. I do have a teacher and they're the reason why I'm still studying really, which is disheartening to say but I hope I will have a better reason to keep going forward.
- Learn to code. I also have friends in this area who can help (C# or Java) but I seem to just be really stupid with how I go about things. For example I can't seem to get started because I have a Macbook and a Linux desktop and nothing I look at deals with them (or are otherwise 7 years old)... and I like to try and follow instructions as much as I can so I keep stalling. Probably I am overthinking this part. Otherwise in that time I have been trying to practice 3D modelling on Blender - trying to overcome my impatience with these sorts of things.
- Get out more often. Maybe do a run in the morning or something. Meet some new people. I have the time but not the drive.

 

[Lohrenswald]

I wish to make life worthwhile or just finally finish it
also lose more weight lol
also "major announcement" I've got planned for about a months time from now

 

[EvaDK]

I have a personal 'hobby project' I will start on this Spring.
I wish to read more books; thrillers, horror, mystery, drama, sci-fi.
To spend more time with my family.
Go to the cinema more often post-Covid. We have an art cinema in the city with all kinds of foreign films from all over the World. I kick myself every year for missing out on some of them.
Oh, I would also like to lose some weight, just like half the population in the Western World pledges themselves to after New Year each year.

 

[Lohrenswald]

Oh, I would also like to lose some weight, just like half the population in the Western World pledges themselves to after New Year each year.

I get that
I've lost almost 30 kg already though so I'm somewhat confident

 

[Zelig]

You’re getting married?!

Yup!

We're not invited!?

Y’all can come to the bachelor(ette) party if you want.

 

[Aiken_Drumn]

I can assure you I do!

 

[Hygro]

Yup!



Y’all can come to the bachelor(ette) party if you want.

Woo! Maybe I will

 

[stinkubus]

I've quit smoking cigarettes and started going to the gym. I want to keep that going.

Also I want to get back into health care. By August I should be back in school to get a nursing license.

Updates. After getting through most of the week with no nicotine cravings they hit me pretty bad today. Managed to pull through without caving.

I heard back from the nursing program I applied to. They are going to accept me, and now I'm waiting for some paperwork to arrive in the mail. I also had a job interview with a home about 20 miles away from my apartment. They house mostly elderly with psychiatric diagnoses so they pay quite a bit better. $20-$24 an hour once I get my nurse aide certification from the state which will probably take about 2-3 months.

This was the third nursing home I've interviewed with in the past few months. Healthcare interviews are wild right now. They don't even ask you questions the interviewer spends the entire time giving you a sales pitch all but begging you to take the job.

If you know someone looking for work who's vaccinated and has a relatively clean criminal background (you can have one misdemeanor here in PA) tell them to check out hospitals or nursing homes. They WILL get hired.

 

[Synobun]

Right now, I have no goals except to make it through the next month. I reckon this year will be generic goals like "lose a little more weight" and "become debt free" or, if not debt free, in debt for a good reason rather than due to passivity.

Possibly: traveling somewhere, and attending my first-ever work conference.

I'm also finally seeing a specialist who actually knows about my health conditions, and who will be willing to prescribe treatments for me, but I hesitate to put this as a goal for the year. Early in my 20s, I made finding help for my health the centerpiece of my plans, and it was ruinous and a ginormous waste of time.

 

[Kyriakos]

Same as every year: try to take over the world.

 

[Narz]

Updates. After getting through most of the week with no nicotine cravings they hit me pretty bad today. Managed to pull through without caving.

I heard back from the nursing program I applied to. They are going to accept me, and now I'm waiting for some paperwork to arrive in the mail. I also had a job interview with a home about 20 miles away from my apartment. They house mostly elderly with psychiatric diagnoses so they pay quite a bit better. $20-$24 an hour once I get my nurse aide certification from the state which will probably take about 2-3 months.

This was the third nursing home I've interviewed with in the past few months. Healthcare interviews are wild right now. They don't even ask you questions the interviewer spends the entire time giving you a sales pitch all but begging you to take the job.

If you know someone looking for work who's vaccinated and has a relatively clean criminal background (you can have one misdemeanor here in PA) tell them to check out hospitals or nursing homes. They WILL get hired.

follow up posts encouraged

 

[The_J]

I plan to increase weight in the gym, lose weight on myself, and I'm signed up with my employer for the local 10k run in April. Still gotta add 4k to this.
Otherwise hoping to get back with my ex, but can't work on that really lol.
Nothing special planned, besides trying to keep my job ^^.

EDIT: And keeping CFC running, obviously.

Just ran the furthest ever, training for a half.

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Good time .

 

[Josu]

My wife and I started a couple of years ago an administrative procedure to adopt a kid.
My hope and goal is that this year we finally have a boy/girl at home.

We have just received a call from the local childhood department, we have an appointmet for tomorrow in which they will introduce us a kid's report
I am terrified and euphoric at the same time

 

[AmazonQueen]

We have just received a call from the local childhood department, we have an appointmet for tomorrow in which they will introduce us a kid's report
I am terrified and euphoric at the same time

Hope all goes well, this is a good thing you are doing

 

[Narz]

I kept up the meditation very consistently for about a month & a half & now fallen off hard. I decided to go from 30+ minutes @ once to 20 minutes twice a day of which I managed 20 minutes once a day about half of days.

It's been very hard mustering the "hell yeah lets do this" energy for meditation (the way I can for something with a lot of immediate gratification like going to the gym). Got another library book on why it's very, very good for a person, maybe that will help a little, just need to find a way to get more in-the-moment juice from it.

While here, I'll report I got my morning routine pretty nailed down (@ least here in the States while I'm away from domestic life for a few weeks) but the rest of the day gets a bit away from me. Really want to get a solid evening routine as well. One that doesn't involved me eating within two hours of sleep (ideally more but two is realistic) as that messes up my sleep & my digestion/appetite the next day. I'm thinking to start very small, 5 or 10 minute yoga routine off youtube & 5 minute meditation before sleep every night, this is super doable but hopefully not so easy that I don't take it seriously enough to do it.

Re : food/weight, I'd like to get my weight up to 190lb (86kg) by years end, that's about 2lb/month all while improving my digestion & how I feel over all. I know for some (most?) people trouble gaining weight sounds like a dream problem to have but it's quite a challenge & actually I have to monitor my overeating probably as much as most people who are trying to lose weight (overeating for me = feel sluggish & gross for many hours afterwards & usually into the next day which leads to overall lower calories & inefficient amount of energy spent processing what I've eaten).

 

[Aiken_Drumn]

We have just received a call from the local childhood department, we have an appointmet for tomorrow in which they will introduce us a kid's report
I am terrified and euphoric at the same time

Woah that's awesome!

 

[Kyriakos]

Manifold.
-Write some new short stories
-Make and publish a new computer game
-Continue learning math
-Finish my 3rd lit seminar
etc

 

[Akka]

I've simple goals. Enjoy life, and maybe try to reimburse the house loan faster, so same things than in 2022.
I've already the partner, the job, the house, the car and the dog. Main bucket list checked, I'm in cruise control for the rest of my life unless something unexpected happens. Only thing I'd like to change is to be able to not have to work anymore, so basically either I win at the lottery or not, which isn't a goal per se as it's out of my control.

 

[Josu]

We have just received a call from the local childhood department, we have an appointmet for tomorrow in which they will introduce us a kid's report
I am terrified and euphoric at the same time

We accepted. Now we enter in a phase led by psichologysts and social workers from childhood department. They will set the milestones and work with us and with the child.
At some point between the end of the summer (it can be sooner) and the end of the year we will be one more at home.

 

[Narz]

The year is flying by. I have the goal now to figure out how to get UK citizenship or @ least some sort of visa/residency. Anyone know a good immigration lawyer I can consult with?