Help! Too many goals. How to choose??

[Rose of Cairo]

Hey all,

I'm having the problem that I'm thinking about my goals for 2009, and well, there are way too many of them. I'm an optimist, but even this way I know I cannot reach all of them in one year.

How do you pick your goals? Is it smarter to pick one goal in each area of your life, or to pick several related goals?

I'm more the kind of person who focuses on ONE thing at a time, so it'd be more natural for me to focus only on one area - but at the same time every one of my goals is sooo interesting, and I absolutely need to work on health and career and money and creativity, so...

Help!!!

I'm so bad at organizing myself, self-discipline and all those practical things of life. I'd really need some help here.

Thanks

[lifetimelearner]

Originally Posted by Rose of Cairo

Hey all,

I'm having the problem that I'm thinking about my goals for 2009, and well, there are way too many of them. I'm an optimist, but even this way I know I cannot reach all of them in one year.

How do you pick your goals? Is it smarter to pick one goal in each area of your life, or to pick several related goals?

I'm more the kind of person who focuses on ONE thing at a time, so it'd be more natural for me to focus only on one area - but at the same time every one of my goals is sooo interesting, and I absolutely need to work on health and career and money and creativity, so...

Help!!!

I'm so bad at organizing myself, self-discipline and all those practical things of life. I'd really need some help here.

Thanks

I wish I could help you Rose

I guess what I would do is read some books from experts and also Steve has some great posts on all those subjects you mentioned
and I am sure someone will pop along and give you some great advice


so what if you are bad at organizing and being practical
we are all different
and we cannot all be good at everything
I suck at leading people
do I care
no !!!!

[Mark Dykeman]

Is there any one goal that could help you improve in multiple areas of your life?

[Hyperchiller]

Hey Rose

Nowadays I like to divide goals up into Physical, Mental, Spiritual, Relationships and Career.

Maybe you might want to have a few goals in each area and have ONE major focus for the year. The major focus could be focusing on the weakest area or the area that most excites you of the above five areas.

You can always take a long term perspective. Will this goal help cross-pollinate into my other life areas? Will it continue to provide me with dividends in the long term? For me I'm implementing an early riser habit and exercising after I get up. This is a solid physical foundation for being productive and having more time and energy on my hands to achieve more and grow more.

You can also ask, does this goal have a heart? Does this goal excite me... over the long term?

Also listen to your guidance from your intuition, guides and higher self. They might be able to help you out.

Yang

[Hanselich]

I think that even more important than ordering goals to certain areas is ordering them by importance. I would start with that.

[dwixi]

Flow

[Victor Vikingr]

I usually pick one goal at a time, and then reach them one by one. Choosing which goal to reach for is worse, though... I usually go for the one that appeals most to me in the moment, if I think I'll actually stick with it.

Right now my most important goal is to prepare for going raw right from the first of the first '09. I suppose this will help in several areas of my life, which is one of the reasons it's so important to me - so maybe you should prioritize your goals, as Hanselich suggests.

I just thought of something: if there are some goals you could achieve relatively fast, you could save them for later, should you need motivation. You could also break your goals up in portions, if possible, as I do with all the languages I'm learning. I have Spanish classes twice a week, and study the others when I feel like it, which is quite often (although I better study German a little more for a few months, as I have an exam before summer).

As well, if you have a goal that's going to be nothing but fun to reach, you could save if, and take on a more challenging "willpower goal" first.

You'll see what works for you.

[Hyperchiller]

Hey Rose

Be sure to check out the latest Steve Pavlina newsletter #11. It's got some awesome tips.

I got a few things from it.

1. Have one personal goal. Have one professional goal. They have to transcend social conditioning.
2. Everything else other than those goals are distractions. Ignore them.
3. Chunk those big goals down and then start working on them. Don't overplan either - that's another form of procrastination.
4. If you have excuses on not working on those big goals then they will take 10 times longer to achieve.

Yang

[brandongilbert]

Which one excites you the most?

[Rose of Cairo]

Oh God... Thanks for your awesome advice all, but I'm still lost! Would you please help me choose a dozen concrete goals for 2009? I generally tend to pick way too many goals at the same time and in the end I reach none of them! I'd like to avoid such a pattern this year.

Aside from my "big", more abstract goals, which don't change over time, in 2009 I specifically want to

- align with Power, Authority and Abundance
- find my inner peace
- journal three pages every morning (I already do that and want to continue)
- get my driver's license
- eat 100% low-fat raw vegan.
- go to bed early
- exercise much more or more intensively than now (what exactly is still unclear)
- become officially self-employed
- develop my blog (technique + content)
- build websites 1, 2, 3 and 4
- write eBooks 1, 2 and 3
- learn about internet marketing and SEO
- learn webdesign, php, maybe ruby
- learn latex
- learn to speak fluent English
- recover my rusty Spanish till it's fluent
- learn Russian
- create a Toastmasters club where I live (I wanted to join but there is none)
- create a local Personal Development club where I live
- write novels 1, 2 and 3
- write screenplays 1 and 2
- write my children's book
- improve my connection with the Universe / my spirit guides / my higher self
- develop my claircognizance
- meditate daily
- daily chakra cleansing
- daily kinesiology exercises
- learn energy healing
- learn massage
- meet my perfect dance partner and dance the most harmonious tango argentino
- take a bellydancing class
- take a streetfighting class
- make clay sculptures
- travel to Serbia
- travel to Estonia

I'd like to make Career my main focus for 2009. First, because I'm feeling a huge pressure to realize at last the ideas I'm having. I have all details in my head, I just need time to do it now. I feel that my work is needed and would be of great value for some people! I'm feeling so drawn to express myself creatively that I think I'll explode if I don't do it And the second reason is that I'm dead broke and starving, and I hate jobs, so it would be awesome to have a way to earn money doing something I'm passionate about, and not something that makes me feel like I'm wasting my time.

The health area is important too though. The three goals (low-fat raw, exercise, sleep) are one package, I cannot fail to exercise or fail to respect my sleep pattern, and stick with my diet. 2008 has taught me that it doesn't work. It's all or nothing. And it is damn difficult, so this will take a lot of energy.

Since I'll probably become self-employed in March or April, I could focus on health in January and February and then on my career?

Some goals contradict each other. For example the bellydancing class or the streetfighting class are late in the evening and thus collide with the early bird goal, so I'll skip them. Health is way more important than hobbies and socializing.

But there are still way too many left!

Help?

[Victor Vikingr]

Originally Posted by Rose of Cairo

- align with Power, Authority and Abundance
- find my inner peace
- journal three pages every morning (I already do that and want to continue)
- get my driver's license
- eat 100% low-fat raw vegan.
- go to bed early
- exercise much more or more intensively than now (what exactly is still unclear)
- become officially self-employed
- develop my blog (technique + content)
- build websites 1, 2, 3 and 4
- write eBooks 1, 2 and 3
- learn about internet marketing and SEO
- learn webdesign, php, maybe ruby
- learn latex
- learn to speak fluent English
- recover my rusty Spanish till it's fluent
- learn Russian
- create a Toastmasters club where I live (I wanted to join but there is none)
- create a local Personal Development club where I live
- write novels 1, 2 and 3
- write screenplays 1 and 2
- write my children's book
- improve my connection with the Universe / my spirit guides / my higher self
- develop my claircognizance
- meditate daily
- daily chakra cleansing
- daily kinesiology exercises
- learn energy healing
- learn massage
- meet my perfect dance partner and dance the most harmonious tango argentino
- take a bellydancing class
- take a streetfighting class
- make clay sculptures
- travel to Serbia
- travel to Estonia

I've put the ones that seemed most important in bold, but I'm sure you won't agree completely. The language ones are bold because I know I think languages are fun.

I think focusing on health first, then carrier sounds smart. Even though the daily ones all seem nice, too many at once would be... too many. Good luck with deciding (and reaching) your goals!

[Holistic Star]

blimey Rose, I'm exhausted just reading your list!

However my list of goals is similar like you I want to experience everything.

I've narrowed my list down:

Make £20,000 in savings and go self-employeed. That's the thing that would make the most difference to me. Many other things will fall into place if I do that.
My other main goal is to attend the Silva Method course in January and set aside a time each day to focus my mind on what I want to attract in my life.

[Rose of Cairo]

Originally Posted by Holistic Star

blimey Rose, I'm exhausted just reading your list!

Really? Strange, it makes me feel totally energetic and motivated And this is only what I'd love to do in 2009. I've got many more projects for the next five or ten years!

However my list of goals is similar like you I want to experience everything.

Awww you understand me then!

I've narrowed my list down:

Make £20,000 in savings and go self-employeed. That's the thing that would make the most difference to me. Many other things will fall into place if I do that.

Hey, this is a cool approach! The thing that would make the most difference to me and cause other things to fall into place is, I think, my diet and other health goals.

My other main goal is to attend the Silva Method course in January and set aside a time each day to focus my mind on what I want to attract in my life.

OH! I forgot this one

Will you share your experience with the Silva method? Sounds interesting.

Thanks, you're helping me see things much clearer

[Rose of Cairo]

Originally Posted by Victor Vikingr

I've put the ones that seemed most important in bold, but I'm sure you won't agree completely.

Thank you so much! The only problem I see with your choice is that it includes nothing I can make money with, so if I listen to you I'll stay broke Learning about SEO and internet marketing is useless if I have no website to market and optimize. Four websites is of course way too much for a beginner, but what about one of them?

The language ones are bold because I know I think languages are fun.

That's so true, I love learning languages

I think focusing on health first, then carrier sounds smart.

Okay. I'll do that.

Even though the daily ones all seem nice, too many at once would be... too many.

Well, it's all things I already do, just not daily. I want to do the meditation and energy work stuff daily because every time in the past I did it daily for a couple weeks in a row, I've felt much better, more stable, and more at peace (finding inner peace is one of my goals too). That's also the times when I had my out of body experience and other more spiritual things happen to me. So I think it'd be better both for my health and for my spiritual life to do it daily. It's not that much... I could add a new one every three months?

Good luck with deciding (and reaching) your goals!

Thanks Same for you!

[Rose of Cairo]

Okay, here's the new version. What do you think?? It's still too much, isn't it?

Originally Posted by Rose of Cairo

- align with Power, Authority and Abundance
- find my inner peace
- journal three pages every morning (I already do that and want to continue)
- get my driver's license // that's important for psychological reasons: I want to overcome my fear of driving!
- eat 100% low-fat raw vegan.
- go to bed early
- exercise much more or more intensively than now (what exactly is still unclear)
- become officially self-employed
- develop my blog (technique + content)
- build websites 1, 2, 3 and 4
- write eBooks 1, 2 and 3
- learn about internet marketing and SEO
- learn webdesign, php, maybe ruby //only necessary for websites 3 and 4, so not urgent
- learn latex //OpenOffice will do for now to create my eBooks
- learn to speak fluent English
- recover my rusty Spanish till it's fluent
- learn Russian
- create a Toastmasters club where I live (I wanted to join but there is none)
- create a local Personal Development club where I live
- write novels 1, 2 and 3
- write screenplays 1 and 2
- write my children's book
- improve my connection with the Universe / my spirit guides / my higher self
- develop my claircognizance
- meditate daily
- daily chakra cleansing
- daily kinesiology exercises
- learn energy healing
- learn massage
- meet my perfect dance partner and dance the most harmonious tango argentino
- take a bellydancing class
- take a streetfighting class
- make clay sculptures //I can do that when I'm bored without it being an explicit goal
- travel to Serbia
- travel to Estonia
- take some time every day to focus on what I want

[cinnabar]

What about taking down the things that you already do? After all, those aren't exactly "goals", but more like habits by now... right?

[seeker5]

Like that quote you pointed out from Steve's article in another thread, anything that keeps you away from your ability to contribute is a distraction.

Learning Russian, brushing up on Spanish, learning to speak fluent English is all a distraction at this point. Fun yes, but a distraction. Something to do in your spare time if you feel like it, not a goal to set, at least not this year. Same thing with traveling to Estonia - a fun thing if it happens, but a distraction if you set it as a goal, at this point.

You also meshed in two different things. You meshed in habits you want, and end goals. Having a website is an end goal, go to bed early is a habit. I suggest you separate the two lists. Then ask yourself which habits that on that list are the absolute most important to help you contribute and achieve your end goals.

[theknightwhosaysni-NI]

Hello Rose !

Many of the goals you listed are part of the same areas. So you may not have that many diffeent point of focus after all.

However, my suggestion is that you focus on career for 2009.

You are already very advanced in health. You're on a raw food diet, which puts you probably in the top 1% of the population regarding health.
I remember, after reading your blog and this forum, that this has taken a lot of your attention during the year 2008. You had a lot of difficulty to adapt to the raw food diet, but now you seem to have done it.

So you can now rest a bit in this area, and just do the minimum effort to stick with this habit that you now have. With minimum effort you're already much more healthy than 99% of the population.

Originally Posted by Rose of Cairo

I absolutely need to work on health and career and money and creativity, so...

Health is one thing, but career and money and creativity are the same, it's all part of career at large.

Originally Posted by Rose of Cairo

- align with Power, Authority and Abundance
- become officially self-employed
- develop my blog (technique + content)
- build websites 1, 2, 3 and 4
- write eBooks 1, 2 and 3
- learn about internet marketing and SEO
- learn webdesign, php, maybe ruby
- write novels 1, 2 and 3
- write screenplays 1 and 2
- write my children's book

These are all career related. If you build a website, write an ebook and become self employed, all the things as learning php, internet marketing, seo, developping the blog, and even aligning with Power and Abundance are going to be part of your work.

Originally Posted by Rose of Cairo

I feel that my work is needed and would be of great value for some people! I'm feeling so drawn to express myself creatively that I think I'll explode if I don't do it

I agree.

My suggestion os to forget about everything else. Health, belly dancing, languages, travelling, street fighting classes, keep for later.

Anway, it's been my experience that if I want to work with a clear mind, I have to do a little bit of journaling, meditation and exercice in the morning to be more efficient. I even started to keep my desk and my house more tidy to have a clearer mind before working. (cause having tidy room helps me having a clear mind )

So you're not going to forget completely about entairtainment, exercice, healthy food, because you're going to need that anyway, but it's going to be a consequence of your focus on career without you even needing to think too much about it.

[AO1]

A goal is a decision. If you set lots of goals at the same time, you haven't made any real decisions. You're just playing the field, hoping you'll find the time to squeeze everything in. But there's no commitment. What you have is a quagmire of potential distractions. One goal is clarity. Ten goals is confusion.

If you want to succeed in achieving your goals, pick just one or two at a time, and stick with them until they're complete. You can also set new goals afterwards.

Try limiting yourself to one major personal goal and one major professional goal at a time. Stick with these priorities until they're 100% complete. You'll achieve your goals much more quickly if you do this.

Steve Pavlina, Personal Development Insights #11

[Rose of Cairo]

Originally Posted by seeker5

Learning Russian, brushing up on Spanish, learning to speak fluent English is all a distraction at this point.

Ugh... I agree that Russian isn't necessary (But I loooove it!! Waaaah *cry*). Learning to speak proper English isn't a distraction though. I write in English, my blog and eBooks and websites are in English, I just need English. And I'd like to meet fellow forum members and be able to communicate with them, too. As for Spanish, website #2 will be in four languages (French, German, English, Spanish) so I need it too! But you're right that it doesn't have to be in 2009. Maybe I can start with English and add more languages in 2010? (what a horrible thought. I want it all now )

Same thing with traveling to Estonia - a fun thing if it happens, but a distraction if you set it as a goal, at this point.

I've been invited there and I said I'd go. I'd love to meet the one who invited me, too. But it's true that it'll depend on my financial resources, and that means focus on career, right?

You also meshed in two different things. You meshed in habits you want, and end goals. Having a website is an end goal, go to bed early is a habit. I suggest you separate the two lists. Then ask yourself which habits that on that list are the absolute most important to help you contribute and achieve your end goals.

Interesting way of seeing it... I hadn't thought about it this way. Isn't building a particular habit a goal, too?

[Rose of Cairo]

Originally Posted by theknightwhosaysni-NI

Hello Rose !

Hello Knight!

However, my suggestion is that you focus on career for 2009.

That's my intention!

You are already very advanced in health. (...)
So you can now rest a bit in this area, and just do the minimum effort to stick with this habit that you now have. With minimum effort you're already much more healthy than 99% of the population.

The point is, I think I haven't reached the point where my health habits run on auto-pilot. Since I started trying to go low-fat raw, I've been struggling horribly. I had many slip ups, ate cooked foods, failed, went back to raw, failed again, etc. If I want to go low-fat raw, this will take a huge amount of effort and I'm far from being done! So, no minimum effort in sight... If I go back to high-fat raw, it'll be much easier, but I'd still need to focus on it for a few weeks to re-build the habit. After all those slip ups and struggles, it totally doesn't feel like the habit "sits". You know?

I cannot go back to cooked foods. Compared to how I feel on raw, I'm an apathetic wreck on cooked foods. I can't settle for less than raw now. But it'll require some work.

These are all career related. If you build a website, write an ebook and become self employed, all the things as learning php, internet marketing, seo, developping the blog, and even aligning with Power and Abundance are going to be part of your work.

That's true. That's why I listed them!

Okay, I can see now that I'm confusing end goals and steps necessary to reach the end goals. The real goal is to go self-employed and build my business. All other things, the writing and webdesign and learning seo etc, are consequences.

I agree.

Thanks

My suggestion os to forget about everything else. Health, belly dancing, languages, travelling, street fighting classes, keep for later.

You want me to die!

Anway, it's been my experience that if I want to work with a clear mind, I have to do a little bit of journaling, meditation and exercice in the morning to be more efficient.

Yes, same here. Journaling every day irritates the hell out of me. But when I don't do it, I feel that I progressively lose connection (to my soul?). Energy work helps a lot to be efficient, too. As I said, I feel much better when I do it every day. So you see: all my goals are necessary to reach my end goal of building my business!

I even started to keep my desk and my house more tidy to have a clearer mind before working. (cause having tidy room helps me having a clear mind )

Cool I agree.

So you're not going to forget completely about entairtainment, exercice, healthy food, because you're going to need that anyway, but it's going to be a consequence of your focus on career without you even needing to think too much about it.

Yes, I agree that all this is a consequence of my focus on career, that's how I see it.

Nevertheless I think I'll have to think about it. I hate routine, so building habits like doing something every day requires A LOT of energy for me. It's not something I can do along the way.

[Rose of Cairo]

Originally Posted by Steve

A goal is a decision. If you set lots of goals at the same time, you haven't made any real decisions. You're just playing the field, hoping you'll find the time to squeeze everything in. But there's no commitment. What you have is a quagmire of potential distractions. One goal is clarity. Ten goals is confusion.

That's exactly how I feel: I'm hoping to find the time to squeeze everything in - and I know very well it isn't possible, which breaks my heart.

Try limiting yourself to one major personal goal and one major professional goal at a time. Stick with these priorities until they're 100% complete. You'll achieve your goals much more quickly if you do this.

This sounds totally boring, but since I want to align with Power and Authority in 2009, I guess it's the way to go for me now.

My professional goal is to build my business. There are a dozen steps required to do this. I don't have to complete them all in 2009 though.

My personal goal is my diet. I really need a clean diet if I want to have enough energy for my career. Or is it getting my driver's license? I really really want to get my driver's license. It doesn't make much sense practically, as I cannot afford a car anyway. But I've been soooo scared of driving for twelve years now! I absolutely want to overcome this fear. Now that I think of it, the goal isn't to get my license, it's to overcome the fear. Can't I have two personal goals, please, please?

[Victor Vikingr]

Ah, I see... Of course, you need to build the websites necessary to earn some income. You might want to learn Russian later, but you should definitely polish your skills in the languages you already know, especially since it's a part of your other projects.

If you can't wait, you could start by memorizing Russian vocabulary, say ten words every night, and repeat them until you fall asleep, then test yourself in the morning while eating breakfast. I know from my own experience that vocabulary takes a while to build anyway, but if you're like me, it's quite frustrating to know words but not grammar.

[seeker5]

Originally Posted by Rose of Cairo

Ugh... I agree that Russian isn't necessary (But I loooove it!! Waaaah *cry*). Learning to speak proper English isn't a distraction though. I write in English, my blog and eBooks and websites are in English, I just need English. And I'd like to meet fellow forum members and be able to communicate with them, too. As for Spanish, website #2 will be in four languages (French, German, English, Spanish) so I need it too! But you're right that it doesn't have to be in 2009. Maybe I can start with English and add more languages in 2010? (what a horrible thought. I want it all now )

Do you need to speak English perfectly in order to contribute to your websites?

Furthermore, time-wise, the most efficient way for you to be good at speaking English is to move to an English Speaking country. Then you'll be speaking English in no time.

My point is if you want to be self-employed and contributing, then you need to take a hard look at exactly what you feel you need to do in order to do that. If you feel you need to speak English good with people in order to be able to contribute on your website, then that's something you need to focus on as well. However, if you can get started on contributing on your sites without the need to converse fluently in English, then I say practice on English when you get a chance, but don't set it as a goal for now.

I've been invited there and I said I'd go. I'd love to meet the one who invited me, too. But it's true that it'll depend on my financial resources, and that means focus on career, right?

Yeah, I meant if you happen to have the opportunity to go, then go. To me, if I set something as a goal, it means it's something I have to focus on regularly and take action to make it happen. That's a distraction if it takes away from more important goals.

Perhaps you can simply set it as an intention, and then put it away and trust it'll happen without you having to take any action toward it. That way, it won't take away from your other focuses, and it may still happen.

I guess the Estonia goal is something that will happen if other things happen. Your website will not happen unless you put constant focus on it.

Interesting way of seeing it... I hadn't thought about it this way. Isn't building a particular habit a goal, too?

Yeah, but to me it's different. I see habits as something that supports a goal. For example, getting up early in the morning isn't something you do just for the sake of getting up early in the morning. you want to get up early in the morning so you can feel a lot of clarity and energy in the morning. So in truth, you really want to contribute and work on your sites and do more in your life, and getting up early in the morning is just a means to accomplishing that. So if you were to get up early in the morning and do nothing, then you wouldn't care to get up early in the morning. So to me, getting up early in the morning is a tool to help you achieve what you really want to achieve, not something you want to achieve just for its own sake.

[lifetimelearner]

can you see a sequence in any of your goals

do this one which would help with this one etc etc ...

[evacorges]

Impressive list!
I just want to bring to your attention that saying yes to one thing always means saying no to something else. You will have to prioritise somehow. Good luck!

[Holistic Star]

Hi Rose,

I didn't realise that you didn't speak English as a first language. Your written English is perfect!

If you want to practise spoken English, I'd be happy to help. If you've got skype we could hook up and I'll tell you all about my Silva course once I've done it in January.

I like the idea of separating out your list into habits to establish and end goals. That's a really good idea. I might have a look at my list and see what I can do.

I think the reason that your list exhausted me is that I've become very run down during December (had flu for 4 weeks) and there's so much I want to do but haven't had the energy to do it. I'm on the mend now so there will be no stopping me in 2009!

[danas]

wow that’s a long list! (and heres a long post)
I think you have to ask yourself why do you want to do each one, because they all take up a lot of time.
I mean if you learn Russian now and not use it daily its going to consume so much time and effort which will be wasted energy b/c you'll probably forget it very soon if you don’t use it regularly. (BTW once you need it its not so hard, I recently learnt the Cyrillic alphabet after spending just 3 days in Russia, because it was a relevant need. Now I can finally read Cyrillic). Your English seems pretty good to me; to speak fluent you just need a month or 2 in an English speaking country. Maybe you can incorporate that into a bigger goal.

Try focusing on 2 goals. Personal and professional as Steve suggested.
Such as "write my children's book" –(don’t know why but that one stood out for me, I think you could be great at that just from feeling your energy.)
If you focus on that for instance, by the end of the year you will have a great product you can travel the world with (while improving your English). It can inspire you with writing future novels and plays, and learn about the world of publishing.

I have a relative who had so many professional goals, studied so many things, and today? Has 3 degrees but has no career, and still keeps making goals, still keeps starting different courses, wrote half a book etc etc. but never has he finished anything all the way. I think once a week he has a new big goal.

I love to travel, but I never in the past decade have traveled just for fun, if I wanted to go somewhere, anywhere, I would have fun, but I would find a way to make the travel also contribute to my larger goal (Such as organizing an exhibition or lecture in that country or networking in my field). And so I almost never paid for a flight ticket either, and even if I went for fun I always collect images for my art, and saw lots of inspiring exhibitions. (My main career goal for the past decade has been making art, showing it internationally to a large audience, and selling it or getting funded.)

Or I had a small goal to visit my grandma more often, so to make myself visit her once a week I decided to make a film about her. I worked on it for 5 years and it was a personal success, it was my first long film and it helped me put a foot into the film industry, which is another larger goal of mine. Now I’m working on another film and the one about my grandma is still being screened every so often, 2 years later. I even got paid to fly to NY to screen and talk about this film. These are just examples of how small goals can be incorporated into larger ones.
You are unique; you need to think which creative aspiration will bring out your uniqueness the best. A web site? A novel? A book? How can you contribute best with your uniqueness? These are questions I ask myself

Oh and a driving license is a great thing to have too. I got mine pretty late too.

Hope that helps.

[magi13]

Which goal needs to be done first, rank them according to importance and concentrate on them one at a time, giving your whole 100 percent in the process.

:3..

P.s. sometimes it's ok to sacrifice some goals over important ones. :3

[Rose of Cairo]

Originally Posted by Victor Vikingr

Ah, I see... Of course, you need to build the websites necessary to earn some income. You might want to learn Russian later, but you should definitely polish your skills in the languages you already know, especially since it's a part of your other projects.

That's what I feel too, however seeker5 is right that I don't need it this year. It makes me sad to admit it, but it's true that other things are way more urgent for now.

If you can't wait, you could start by memorizing Russian vocabulary, say ten words every night, and repeat them until you fall asleep, then test yourself in the morning while eating breakfast. I know from my own experience that vocabulary takes a while to build anyway, but if you're like me, it's quite frustrating to know words but not grammar.

Yes indeed!!! And... when I learn a new language, I need to totally immerse myself in it and basically do it full time. Learning just a few words every day isn't fun, it's a torture!