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What are your goals for the next 6 months and 5 years?

tommy34

tommy34

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Okay, I'm not sure if this has been done before, I'm sure it has but I just wanted to see what other people inspire towards. I often think about my future and thinking about it in a positive, productive light really helps me. I figured I have 2 option for my life regarding the next five years and one is to end my pain with a rope. I really don't want to do that to my friends and my family so lately I have been thinking about what I want to do and how I am going to do it so I have a much brighter future that 6 feet under and my mother living without her only son.

Within the next 6 months I want to:
  • Get fit and lose my extra few Kilos. I will do this by continuing to go to the gym every day I have a chance.
  • Celebrate my 21st birthday surrounded by my friends and family. I will do this with a bit of cocaine.
  • Ward off these evil thoughts within my mind to be happy and healthy. I will do this by trying different depression treatments including acupuncture.

Within the next 5 years I want to:
  • Complete a bachelor of social word and start working either in a rehabilitation center or mentoring young boys without fathers to become happy healthy men.
  • Have my own home.
  • Be completely free from the symptoms of depression and anxiety.
  • Become a bluelight TDS moderator. I don't have much to offer at the moment but I hope as my journey continues I will be able to give back to the community that has helped me so much.

Thank you for reading. I would love to hear other peoples hopes and dreams for the future :)
 
The options you list are far better than the rope option, IMO %)

I don't really set long term goals any more as so much can change... So I guess in 6 months I aimn to have had a great summer to look back on, clean of kratom, codeine, and all other shit.

In 5 years - I just hope I'm happy, and doing something that contributes to that happiness, with people that I can relate to and feel good with. I am re-training for a new career, so hopefully I will have made inroads into that by then, but who knows, sometimes you get a curveball thrown at you and have to adjust - well at least that's happened to me a lot of times, so these days I follow a loose roadmap and just enjoy the detours.
 
I think it has been done- and Iwill do a search and merge, if so- but for now..........

6Mos:
Lose weight
Get healthy
Find a job
Save money
Go on a short trip somewhere

5 years:
This one is a lot harder for me to imagine.
I'm just not sure what I want- so I guess I should add that to my 6 month plan :D
Figure out what I want in my future.

Great thread idea:)
 
6 months - be clean , move out of this state , find something for work that doesn't put me in the middle of the fire storm.

5 years - be clean , buy a house so im not throwing money at rent and not having any investment return , be a stable version of myself :-/.
 
6 months:

stay out of trouble and I'll be off paper in about 6.5 months
get in better shape (already got a farm job lined up for the summer so that'll do it)
stay sober
start attempting to be more social (i never learned to be social in non-drug using environments)

5 years:

the only real long term goal I have is to have my degree by the time I'm 30 (3 more years)

also like to be out of the south by then.. likely going to the pacific northwest or maybe canada (my mom was canadian and I got a bunch of family there)

like to be sober and stable.

preferably not be in debt.
 
6 months - be clean

5 years - Find a little something in life called "ambition"... haha. That depends on the PAWs I guess. FML.
 
6 months- continue my sobriety, complete my first quarter of senior year at college with at least a 3.5 GPA, have some money saved, continue to see good live shows.

5 years- continue my sobriety, have a good job, have gotten married or at least a serious girlfriend, continue to not lose my passion for music.
 
6 months: be sober, be less anxious, form real relationships with new people, have self confidence

5 years: sober, have my student loans paid off (at least a little), go on a roadtrip across the USA and meet as many people as possible.
 
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Six months: To hold on to my freedom and to salvage my collegiate career.

Five years: To have a decent, intellectually satisfying job.
 
Acupucture and other treatment for depression do not work.

tommy34 said:
Okay, I'm not sure if this has been done before, I'm sure it has but I just wanted to see what other people inspire towards. I often think about my future and thinking about it in a positive, productive light really helps me. I figured I have 2 option for my life regarding the next five years and one is to end my pain with a rope. I really don't want to do that to my friends and my family so lately I have been thinking about what I want to do and how I am going to do it so I have a much brighter future that 6 feet under and my mother living without her only son.

Within the next 6 months I want to:
  • Get fit and lose my extra few Kilos. I will do this by continuing to go to the gym every day I have a chance.
  • Celebrate my 21st birthday surrounded by my friends and family. I will do this with a bit of cocaine.
  • Ward off these evil thoughts within my mind to be happy and healthy. I will do this by trying different depression treatments including acupuncture.

Within the next 5 years I want to:
  • Complete a bachelor of social word and start working either in a rehabilitation center or mentoring young boys without fathers to become happy healthy men.
  • Have my own home.
  • Be completely free from the symptoms of depression and anxiety.
  • Become a bluelight TDS moderator. I don't have much to offer at the moment but I hope as my journey continues I will be able to give back to the community that has helped me so much.

Thank you for reading. I would love to hear other peoples hopes and dreams for the future :)
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For full depression heaaling and to wave off bad thoughts. Please pick up ur bible and read the word of God. Give your life to Christ and He will remove all the things you do not want in life.
 
Neat, I was successful in all my 6 month goals and I'm still well on track for my 5 year goals.

Maybe it's time for me to set some more 6 month goals.
 
6 months: Lose a bit more weight
kick my soda habit for good
move into apartment with fiance
fix my volvo up a bit more

5 years: Move to Portland with my husband(getting married in 11 months)
become successful photographer after finishing college
become a bizarro book author
be free of my anxiety and everything my past has done to me
create a huge volvo drifting and racing scene in Portland and get more ladies into it
finally have a successful band
 
6 MONTHS

be a little bit happier then the previous day
get out and snowboard moar this season .
Start writing music
see moar shows...
get some moar ink done.
get my motorcycle.
5 YEARS
omg ill be close to 40.... scary lol

be out of debt.
be in a serious relationship
go to ibiza...
 
snowboarder7791 said:
6 MONTHS

be a little bit happier then the previous day
get out and snowboard moar this season .
Start writing music
see moar shows...
get some moar ink done.
get my motorcycle.
5 YEARS
omg ill be close to 40.... scary lol

be out of debt.
be in a serious relationship
go to ibiza...
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where is ibiza??
 
It's a island off the coast of Spain .. its basically where the whole edm.scene took shape . Has the most craziest clubs in the world . It's really beautiful from what I've seen
 
villian said:
Neat, I was successful in all my 6 month goals and I'm still well on track for my 5 year goals.

Maybe it's time for me to set some more 6 month goals.
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Wow! Congratulations, Villian.

Mine: in 6 months I hope to continue opening to find more acceptance for the death of my son and to be able to simply love him as always.<3

In 5 years I hope to have either reassembled my shattered life and heart in a new configuration or to transform my thinking to include living well in pieces.8)

P.S. Snappy, what is drifting?

and P.P.S. Snowboarder, Ibiza is a worthy goal!
 
I'm not going to do a 5 year projection because I simply do not know who I am yet. Developing a strong personal identity and idea of who I am has been one of my struggles the last few years.

6 Month Goals:

-Become closer to total sobriety (make opiate/benzo/pill use go from occasional to rare, take less adderall and caffeine, and toke less weed)
-Have become better organized
-Have cleaned and organized my room, car, and basement
-Have been focusing on and have gotten in better shape
-Start working on getting certified to be a high school coach
-Work on getting assistant cross country job at my old high school for fall 2012
-Save up some money
-Work on my writing
-Have a set plan for finishing school
 
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I can't put goals into a time-frame, but I do quite a few. Some small, some big, some will take a very long while, others not. Some are vague, others not so much.

-Move to So. Cal.
-Find a good psych doc, and a good GP.
-Get pets. Definitely cats, many, and maybe smaller pets, too.
-Become wealthy.
-Find a way to sustain recreational drug use without comprimising connection with family, living conditions, freedom etc.
-Drop to 125 lbs. I love that number.
-Go to college, med school, and become a psych doc/psychotherapist. Become a revolutionary in the field. I want to re-write the books.
-Let my hair grow long again.
-Become the "glue" of my family. Support my family.
-Continue writing and take of an interest in poetry and writing (both fiction and non).
-Expand my knowledge.
-Make ammends with astranged family member, and re-unite the family.
-Be happy.
-Expand spirituality.
 
Only inevitable thing in life is change, have hope that things will get better....positive vibes.

6month
-to get my life back on track, everything was going so fucking well and it all came crashing down on me this september...unfortunately I couldnt hold it together and dropped out of highschool for the time being.
-to gain my confidence and self esteem back
-to find some kind of direction
-make it up to all the people I have let down these past few weeks.
-figure out my plan for post highschool travelling
- buy a season pass to a local mountain
- vollunteer for the holidays

5 years
-move out
-find a direction (probably wont happen in 6 months)
-stay confident
-be happy
-go get a post secondary education
 
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