Mon 29 Dec 2008
How did your 2008 resolutions go? Maybe you remember my 2008 goals.
Regrettably, I did not develop a convincing English accent, sky dive or buy 1 acre of land and dig a 100 ft deep hole with a backhoe in a month.
I did visit SEVEN countries, directed a documentary, and I obtained my motorcycle driver’s license.
2009′s New Year’s Resolutions include:
- Study an hour each (a week) of Spanish, French, Chinese and Arabic with Rosetta Stone
- Benchpress 365 lbs
- Learn to ride a unicycle and juggle (NOT at the same time)
- Learn to golf
- Learn to bake fantastic bread and cookies
- Work at a fast food restaurant for a week
- Make a funny movie
- Become SCUBA certified
- Publish a book
- Learn to play THREE songs well on the guitar
- Set up a ceramics studio in my house
- Program something interesting in dot net
- Study Hebrew and Greek as it pertains to the Old and New Testament
- Visit THREE more new countries
- Turn a profit with at least THREE of my side businesses
- Ride the bus to work
What’s on your list for 2009?
Well you’re ambitious to be sure. But I can help you out with that bread thing. Let me know and I’ll talk your ear off.
As for me, I have two goals: graduate and get a job.
hey everyone, it’s one of the Fugal brothers! welcome, welcome!
I’d love to learn what you know about bread. i hear it’s all about the pizza stone– is that right?
I have an enormous list of things I’d like to Be, things I’d like to Have, and things I’d like to Do. Some of them are as follows (and I may or may not have edited some of them)*:
BE:
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Best Dad Ever
Business Owner (Multiple)
Debt-free
Great Sushi maker
Multi-lingual Speaker
Soccer Coach
HAVE:
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Comfortable House
Fabulous Marriage
Food Storage (2-Year supply)
Good Kids
Happy Life
DO:
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Attend a World Cup final
Climb on 6 continents
Do a Ship Wreck Dive
Create my own Operating System
Give my current annual income to a deserving Charity
Have more Assets than Liabilities (positive net worth)
Learn French (and many other langs)
Motorcycle across America
Own 3 companies at one time
Patent Something
Surf in Hawaii
Write a fiction Novel
Write a non-fiction Novel
Create a movie and submit it to a film festival
* This list is a small representation of a much larger list, also, the goals are not time based… just life based.
By the way, I can help you with the Guitar Songs very easily, I used to teach guitar lessons. But… you already knew that because I posted this same comment on your last goals article. So maybe I retract the learning opportunity from your grasp… who knows.
I am qualified to benefact your french study, your golf game, and your baking repertoire (it’s all in the yeast with bread). I’d also like to talk you out of the circus acts, the fast food debauchery and the ceramics studio.
Ryan, just like last year, I’ll help you fulfill your 2009 New Year’s Resolutions. Speaking of, we can do 4,5,7,10,11, 15 and 16 . If we start now, you can scratch them off.
Let me know the fast food restaurant you work at, so I can come by and take some photos.
You’re a very ambitious person, Ryan. I respect that.
-Will
I haven’t seen the schedule.
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