Do you have long term goals?

[Bri w]

Originally Posted by metalmonkey

To be pain free, I think that it would reasonable not to go sleep in pain and wake up in pain would be awesome.

Know what you mean... got some great meds but hate the wooly head in the mornings.

[dizzyblonde]

Originally Posted by metalmonkey

To be pain free, I think that it would reasonable not to go sleep in pain and wake up in pain would be awesome.

Think a lot of us share that, I'd quite like to wake up knowing everything has magically disappeared for both of us, instead of which bits going to give grief today!

[BanannaMan]

Originally Posted by Jayneflakes

Oh hell, I have become a damn hippy!

No need to make long term plans.
If Jayne starts listening to 60's folk music I'm fairly certain the world will come to an end in 2012.




My long terms. Change jobs. (not free to discuss) then retire and move to countryside somewhere in Wales.

Wanna buy a house, Bill?

[Sir Trev]

When you work for large companies your mid and long term goals are often pointless if your face does not fit or if you don't want to play the politics game, as I found. So I have comfort goals now that I've reached a level I'm happy to stay at and feel way less stressed as a consequence.

Plan:
Happy Wife, if she's happy I'm happy.
3 kid due in Febuary, so 3 kids brought up well, small goal is that the boy learns how to wash clothes, cleaning and make food along with all the sterotype things a boy will know, the girls to learn how to check oil, change tyres and know how to use a battery drill(our 3 year old is already taking out her Bosch playtools when I'm working).
One more guild license, I've two now, Instrumentation tech and Electrician.
One or two steps up the company ladder.
Refurbising the house, alot by myself, see the end off round 1 before I'm 40(7+ years to go). Round 1 ends up with a new dobbel garage with a basement in it(bike-cave), a rent out flat(taxfree money), dobbel carport with a big shed.
Get the two Suzuki Harris bikes in parts up and running, go classic racing with them.
Get one of the CB750KZs up and running with braced frame, alot of go faster parts, modern and old.
Once the CB is a good road bike take the curvy and make it into a SV 750R, ohlins, Dymag, Brembo and a 10-20kg diet.

Most plans don't have a dead line, I'm a dad, and sometime one must dropp everything in ones hands and be a dad and enjoy life.

I don't really plan ahead - I like to go with the moment!
So all I can say is my lifetime goal is to be happy and live life to the fullest.

[timwilky]

To retire.


Sounds simple. But

Will the pot ever be large enough?
Will the government stop raising the age?
Will I live that long?

[dizzyblonde]

Originally Posted by Small Clanger

Me too, but switching off is not an option for me. Where once the goals were financial and materialistic they are now more health/fitness or all that spiritual wellbeing crap that comes when you get into your fifties.

It's our aspirations and our achievements that define us as people. It does'nt matter if one falls short of the other, as long as the effort has been made.

You have to be in your fifties? Oh, maybe I'm just weird then!
Agree with the last line.

However, it does seem the young amongst us have little goal in life, in that I mean living for the moments sometimes ends up meaning by the time you are old, you may have had lot of excitement, but not actually achieved much. I know a few who have regretted doing that, and realise life has actually passed them by.

Originally Posted by dizzyblonde

I mean living for the moments sometimes ends up meaning by the time you are old, you may have had lot of excitement, but not actually achieved much. I know a few who have regretted doing that, and realise life has actually passed them by.

I guess that's quite true!
I don't like to plan because there can always be something to change our paths
I don't think I even know what I want in life yet. Sometime soon I want to be living on my own two feet though most definitely.