MY GOALS FOR LIFE
I spend a lot of
time writing about goals. But I realize that I haven't shared many of my own.
While I don't see my dreams as unique, I don't know too many people who share
them. Most of my friends are caught in the mythology that you have to get a
good job, settle in and chain yourself to a retirement package for the rest of
your life.
I deliberately
avoid details such as deadlines and plans in this entry. Although I believe a
lot in writing your goals and setting plans and deadlines, this is not helpful
here. I want to share the bigger picture of my life, not the darker
implementation details.
A Completely Digital Life
I'm not a materialistic person. I don't like to buy things and I have very simple flavors. I like to eat simple meals, live in simple houses and keep simple things. Having more things doesn't make me happy and I appreciate things that can't be bought much more.
As a result, I am interested in the idea of the rich, but it does not lead me. If I had a billion dollars, I would live in almost the same way as I do today. Maybe I would travel more and worry less about financial needs, but my life wouldn't change.
My true goal is financial freedom. This means never having to worry about money because my lifestyle is way below my means. With this freedom, I could start a new business, without worrying about losing money from an old company. I want money to be removed from my life.
#GOAL-3
Learn Everything
This is a goal that I can never achieve. However, I have made a lot of progress. Self-education is something that I will continue to do for the rest of my life. With each topic I learn more, three more opportunities branch out. There are few subjects that I'm not completely interested in and too many fascinate me.
#GOAL-4
Running Marathon and Physical Education
I have made many improvements to my fitness in recent years. But some of the individual fitness goals I have:
1.Run a marathon.
2.To be able to do 10 push-ups of one arm with each arm (5 was my previous maximum)
3.Bench Press 200 lbs (I'm stuck at 185)
4.Run a 5 minute mile.
5.Do a "Superman" pushup (a pushup from a handstand position)
I don't do all this exercise just to be healthy. And it's too much work to look good (buying prettier clothes is much easier). I have a lot of fun exercising. I've never been great in sports, but I really enjoy setting incremental goals of lifting weights, running, and staying fit.
#GOAL-5
Relationships and Social Success
As someone who was not very outgoing as a child, this is an area that required more work to be good. My ultimate goal here is to be able to easily make new friends and relationships wherever I go.
Living a digital life and traveling the world can create a whole new set of problems. One of them is that you cannot trust a work environment to provide your social contacts. This is doubly true if I plan to travel to many different countries where language and cultural barriers will add an additional challenge.
Other goals and thoughts about life
This list is constantly changing. It wasn't the list I had two years ago, and it probably won't be exactly the same in another two years. I don't expect it to stay constant. I am constantly looking for new experiences, so I need to be prepared if those new experiences change my life goals.
Achieving these goals will not make me happy. I don't expect them to. Most of them are simply comfort issues, not critical to the quality of my life. Working on challenging and meaningful goals represents 90% of my happiness. Only 10% is based on my comfort with external factors such as money and location independence.
These goals are important to me. But I already have everything I want.
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