Post: #1

Sup All,

It's been forever since I've ACTUALLY been on here and posted. School has started back up again, I am managing the workload, and yesterday, I was sitting around and realizing how much time I was wasting not doing anything more than the average student at a good school.

They say it takes a village to raise a child, well, honestly I feel like this community is the influence I need to make sure I don't hit 35 and realize I wasted my youth on bullshit because many of you living interesting lives. I have already done alot in my young life thus far, from staged productions to running a small business. I stagnated in growth and now I feel like with some direction from the obviously successful portion of the forum, I can improve massively.

This thread is a journal for me to personally document the journey and the progress I make not just for myself, but for the other younger members on the forum.

A bit about me:
-Tall
-Good Shape and Athletic (Starting Sports and Working Out Again Today)
-Decent French Ability
-Good Game, not amazingly insane, but not horrible.
-Artisticly inclined
-Good Style In College Setting, though need to get my class up.
-Pretty well read and have a variety of experiences.

I read in XXL's post I believe that it's difficult to do anything if you don't know what you want to do. I spent the past few weeks thinking about what I wanted and pretty much it's:
-to attract women that are interesting, chill, and fun to be around
-artistic women I get along with the best. I like art, film, and music, so it works out well.
-achieve a 4.0 this semester, I want to RUN my classes
-to have a social life that I can do things that interest me with people that are cool. I already have that to many degrees.
-an income that allows me to actively go out and game, as well as pay for obligational things like bills and such.
-learn to be able to tell stories well, I suck at it currently, my delivery is just off.

Tonight I will post my plan of attack along with clear concise goals and my general questions that are open to forum members.

Hope I posted this in the right place and I hope those reading can learn a thing or two overtime as well.

Post: #2

Im right there with you.

For work I am going to isolated for about the next year. Ive decided in my down time to work on several key things, keep in mind gaming is going to be non existent due to my location.

1. Gym 5x a week. Could probably do 7x but it depends on work schedule.
2. Study spanish. I have the rosetta stone levels 1,2, and 3. Once I finish that I can see what else is out there, hopefully I will have a few co-workers that are fluent and I can work with.
3. 1 book per week. Should be relatively easy.
4. Eat healthy the whole time. Not going to be an issue.
5. Practice guitar and singing.
5. Come back ready to rock and brush all the rust off my game. Taking a trip to the phils with a fat stack of cash will help that.

Good luck man. Ill be following.

Post: #3

Big task, looking forward to seeing how it goes ;=)

Post: #4

Good post, I should really do the same so I can keep working towards a goal, rather than floating from place to place.

Good luck with the plan bro. Keep us posted.

Post: #5

To be honest I don't know where this thread is going. Your list of goals is pretty good but can't you pick one or two that are really important? At my school for example, precisely nobody fits all those qualifications, and there's a good reason for that. You have to sacrifice in some areas to make real gains in others. Generally speaking, it's grades that are sacrificed for game or cash flow.
There's a danger to writing large to do lists, and that's ego validation and effort recognition without putting any work in. There was a study done on that somewhere. It's precisely why I never tell anyone what I'm doing until I'm about half done.

Post: #6

Nice work. I'll be keeping a close eye on this thread.

@Hades I saw something like that on Bakadesuyo

Post: #7

How was your Canada trip? lol

Post: #8

(09-24-2012 08:38 PM)Hades Wrote:  To be honest I don't know where this thread is going. Your list of goals is pretty good but can't you pick one or two that are really important? At my school for example, precisely nobody fits all those qualifications, and there's a good reason for that. You have to sacrifice in some areas to make real gains in others. Generally speaking, it's grades that are sacrificed for game or cash flow.
There's a danger to writing large to do lists, and that's ego validation and effort recognition without putting any work in. There was a study done on that somewhere. It's precisely why I never tell anyone what I'm doing until I'm about half done.

With good time management and working efficient, he can achieve that entire list and more. Me and 2 close friends did a very similar list our last 2 years in college. My junior year I worked 25-30 hours a week, got a 3.8, lost 20 lbs, and had a social life. It did take a lot of energy and I had to do the gf thing as i didnt have the time to constantly chase new girls.

I think him setting high goals for himself is a good thing. He's posting it here with us, the brotherhood. I doubt he is running around on campus telling anyone his goals.

Either way, I always think its better to set goals that are hard to achieve so your always pushing your limits. I'll be following this thread as well.

Post: #9

Well Adam Michaels, I apologize for my cynicism but I used to make long lists of stuff to acomplish but always failed until I learned to focus on one thing at a time. Multitasking goals like these was never my strong suit. Good work though.

Post: #10

Being a Renaissance Man is an excelent goal. Actually the best goal a man can strive towards in my opinion. Life is so much more interesting if you can do many things, and talk about a wide variety of subjects.

It's too bad that the modern trend is towards hyper-specialisation. It makes people boring.

Post: #11

Go for it Black Quixote,

To me, becoming a true renaissance man means getting on those languages and dedicating yourself to a martial art that you really vibe with it.

I think your list is very doable with the right mindset. Good luck.

Post: #12

Here's the thing, You can't take on more than 1 or 2 habits at a time.

Doing so will mean you won't be able to do it.

I've been able to organize my life better. Right now some of my habits include daily meditation, going out 5 days a week, working out 3 times a week, and eating my greens and supplements. I'm not perfect, but I do them 80 percent of the time.

The next step would be becoming more consistent in my habits and slowly adding in new ones until they stick.

Adding in 3 or 4 new habits at once is crazy difficult and hard to stick to.

Post: #13

After Having Time to process, adjust a bit and really just contemplate what direction I want to go I have decided that over the course of the next few years these are just a few of my general goals written down:
-Pick up a new language and harness my current french level to complete fluency.
-Complete my bachelors and masters degree.
-Build a large professional network and expand my current social network to more driven and interesting individuals. (Inspiration for me often comes from conversations with others that are doing or have done more than I am).
-Fix my current belief system and
-Develop businesses that lead to traveling, good networking oppurtunities and
-Continue to write plays, scripts etc. etc. every month.
-Read 100 books within a few years.
-train myself and adopt a healthy diet and root out unhealthy habits.

These may appear extremely unspecific but it's just to give you an idea of what I am trying to work on in the next few years. To be more specific about currently, I am working on three areas: Business, Mental and Physical Development, and School. There are more specific goals within each.

Business:
-Build my current business of lead generation and monetization optimization consultancy. I want to get it to XX,XXX a month so from there I can work on my other intended larger projects as well.
-Build my linkedin and networking tools supply.
-Study Business Material, and sharpen my business skills from networking to sales. I have a reading list and am currently beginning with Think and Grow Rich.

School:
-Establish a relationship with all of my teachers
-demonstrate active participation in class by having classes, ready made questions, and quotes from readings or researching extra beforehand.
-Check my school email everyday
-Befriend as much of the staff as possible.

Mental and Physical Development:
-Create a Diet Plan, Supplements List, and workout plan (a friend that's a personal trainer is going to handle this)
-Meditation daily for 20 minutes a day
-Watch one ted talk a day
-write for 20 minutes a day
-Read one book every two weeks minimum
-Play sports everyday

These are just the initial habits I am focusing on the first few months until I have these down, from which point on I will expand. My schedule for posting updates will be every other day, and will be a review of what I have done toward each of these goals, as well as information I learned that may or may not help someone reading (a sort of "What I learned today is.." summary).

Post: #14

Good stuff, I'm on a eerily similar trajectory myself and will be paying close attention to your progress.