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Acting Like Godot · 01-26-2007, 01:43 AM

Hi C33

Yes, I have faced the same kind of issues as you are facing.

I talk freely to my wife about all my goals; but obviously because I trust her and she actually takes me seriously when I say, "I'm gonna do ____, have ___, be ______, earn _____, learn to _______, succeed in ______, achieve _____, all by the end of this year."

There is no one else I would talk freely about my goals, except for some people on the Internet. Strangely, the distance between people on the Internet creates the security for people to share things which they wouldn't with real people in the real world.

For instance, as "C33", you could write about your artistic goals and share them with artists on the Internet. They would be interested and supportive, although you may never come to know them by any name other than their Internet ID. They won't know you as anything other than "C33" either, so you're "safe".

01-26-2007, 01:43 AM	#5 (permalink)
Acting Like Godot Banned Join Date: Nov 2006 Posts: 9,613	Hi C33 Yes, I have faced the same kind of issues as you are facing. I talk freely to my wife about all my goals; but obviously because I trust her and she actually takes me seriously when I say, "I'm gonna do ____, have ___, be ______, earn _____, learn to _______, succeed in ______, achieve _____, all by the end of this year." There is no one else I would talk freely about my goals, except for some people on the Internet. Strangely, the distance between people on the Internet creates the security for people to share things which they wouldn't with real people in the real world. For instance, as "C33", you could write about your artistic goals and share them with artists on the Internet. They would be interested and supportive, although you may never come to know them by any name other than their Internet ID. They won't know you as anything other than "C33" either, so you're "safe".