So I try to set myself goals every years. Some are realistic and I don't quite make it and some are a reach and I actually acomplish them. Either way I like making a list at the beggining of the year and do my best to acomplish it. Here's what I got for 2011...

1. Get a new job with a company that is more organized and pays 25-30 percent more base.

2. Finally finish my undergrad (I did college part time after my freshmen year)

3. Sell my car.

4. Move to Brooklyn

5. Get engaged.

What major goals do you guys have for the year?

1. Get out of debt.

2. give up racing.

3. do lots of woodworking

4. Improve my relationship with my teenage daughter and twelve year old son.

5. Read more good books with my ten year old daughter.

6. Become a better employee, husband, and community member.

7. Stay involved with habitat for humanity and keep swinging a hammer.

Finish the 2.5 years left in my mortgage this year.

Exercise more.

Resist temptation/Don't buy car/enjoy having no car payment.

I have two goals. The first is to begin rebuilding my dad's BMW R75/5 once space in the garage permits, and the weather warms. The second is getting into journalism school.

Rebuilding a bike that hasn't run for almost forty years is probably the easier challenge of the two.

Not die

Make more money, so I can put it into my house and toward retirement.

Make more money, so I can put it into my house and toward retirement.

I would recommend you put it into the bank Ocn. Leaving it around the house can be an issue in the event of fire or burglary.

I'll tinker around with these:

> work out a bit & drop a few lbs / remember to take vitamins

> work more hrs/day, sleep more @ night and somewhere between: learn how to relax

> do SOMETHING on that damned Buick & decide whether or not to sell the GP

> make a big score, either thru work or an investment property

> network more

Make more money, so I can put it into my house and toward retirement.

I would recommend you put it into the bank credit union Ocn. Leaving it around the house can be an issue in the event of fire or burglary.

Fixed. Of course, Suze Orman would recommend a Roth IRA.

1. Put more money into the bank

2. Work on my writing and take some classes on it

3. Start a side gig to help earn money

4. Get a project car and learn how to fix it up

5. Network with more people

6. Get through more of College

1. Get a new/better job w/ a shorter commute (resigned from the bank last week, starting a new gig in late March)

2. Save more money

3. Loose weight

4. Stay sane

5. Eat better

6. Get more sleep

6. Get out of Arizona

7. Go to more races (went to one Indy Car event last year, so far got tickets to a NASCAR Sprint Cup race tomorrow, the Indy 500, The Long Beach Grand Prix and the Long Beach ALMS race)

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1. Get a better job, one actually in my field
   
2. Work on paying off student loans
   
3. Get a better camera. More and more I think photography is my professional calling.
   
4. Get work done on both cars, a/c revamp for my car, exhaust manifold t-stat and brakes for the Prizm.
   
5. Get body work done to both.
   
6. Finally go to Carlisle this year
   

survive

1) Try not to hate my life...

2) Try not to hate the world...

3) Try not to hate Toyota....

LOL... Just kidding. (About it all, but ESPECIALLY about the Toyota part)

-better job

-wipe out debt

-put money in bank

-more family time

Go back to school and finish what I should have done years ago.

Not die

This (as it is quite a helpful life goal) plus surviving through a proposed merger which is almost a done deal and which may have repercussions.

Make more money, so I can put it into my house and toward retirement.

Sounds reasonable.

1. Get a better job, one actually in my field
2. Work on paying off student loans
3. Get a better camera. More and more I think photography is my professional calling.
4. Get work done on both cars, a/c revamp for my car, exhaust manifold t-stat and brakes for the Prizm.
5. Get body work done to both.
6. Finally go to Carlisle this year

Agree on the photography thing.

I'll tinker around with these:

> work out a bit & drop a few lbs / remember to take vitamins

> work more hrs/day, sleep more @ night and somewhere between: learn how to relax

> do SOMETHING on that damned Buick & decide whether or not to sell the GP

> make a big score, either thru work or an investment property

> network more

That's the tough thing about owning a car you love but are not driving a lot...

I didn't realize the GP was on the chopping block!

1. Finish my Masters - should graduate in December

2. Finishing #1 means I finish my local income housing project

3. Continue to concentrate on raising my girls and not over worrying about how their mother treats them (she doesn't come around anyways)

4. Get work in the field I am going to school in - though this might not come in 2012

5. Continue on a reduced spending lifestyle to reduce debt

6. Get back into volunteering in the local community

7. Go on more dates

8. Enjoy updating / upgrading my home (kinda hard to do a limited budget, but still fun)

1. Learn how to play bass guitar.

2. Present a paper at a conference.

3. Get my GPA higher. (not that it's low at all, but still)

4. Upgrade the crappy stock speakers in the Bonneville.

5. Pay off the Bonneville while I'm at it.

6. Replace my ten-year-old desktop PC.

7. Be a great father to our first child due in late June.

Take initial steps to conquer the world.

5. Get engaged.

How does the person you are speaking of feel about that?

Take initial steps to conquer the world.

"Conquer the world and self destruct." - MetallicA

Take initial steps to conquer the world.

"Conquer the world and self destruct." - MetallicA

My favorite dispair-themed album is probably still 'The Downward Spiral' by NIN...listening to it now still brings back warm fuzzies of the Prozac-and-Jaegermiester fueled PHD days in gray Michigan in the mid '90s/my mid 20s..

Be a great father to our first child due in late June.

congrats!

5. Get engaged.

How does the person you are speaking of feel about that?

Our relationship has been a turbulent, not because of issues that we have with eachother but her life has been a sh!t shoe the last two years or so. He brother passed away unexpectedly and her mother hit rock bottom drinking and we had to get her into rehab clean out her apartment and get her on her feet again. It's been very taxing on both of us even though I've supported her 110 percent through it.

We're finally ready to put that chapter behind us and refocus on eachother. Actually we have already started and the last 3-4 months have been great. Assuming things keep going in the directiong that they are I expect an end of the years engagment might be in the cards. I'm not setting an arbitrary deadline, I'm not going to rush her but I think 4 years in by that point, and living together for 3, that might be a good time to pull the trigger.

Be a great father to our first child due in late June.

congrats!

Thank you very much.

Try to get some of you to post more.