A correct attitude can take a person a long way toward their goals, so the significance of attitude should not be devalued in favor of short term goals. Meeting small goals can provide an emotional boost, but it is far better to develop and maintain an attitude can often take you through the trying, small setbacks, such as the inevitable injuries you get in martial arts.
Attitude can carry you forward like a wave. I do expect to be carried in that way in 2013. My underlying drives, having been been given channels and underlying structure by my already existing habits, should take me further this year than they did in 2012.
At the same time, concrete goals should be established -- not to replace the underground channels I have contrived and constructed, but to make the journey more meaningful.
With respect to this, here are my concrete goals for 2013:
1. I will write at least one book that is not messy, mad or half-heartily edited. I've found it extremely difficult to edit my own work in the past because when you are heavily immersed in developing completely new ideas, you can't step back and see the words from a fresh perspective. In 2012, I did a lot of stepping back and revising. One has to realize that different audiences have different needs.
Also, in the past, I didn't have an adequate understanding of where any particular type of criticism originated. I didn't understand the factional nature of Western society, so I used to give equal weight to 'criticisms' of my writing that came from men's rights activists as I did to professors or anyone else who wanted to criticize something I'd written.
That's what can happen when you have spent your formative years in a totally different milieu. I've since learned who to trust and who not to. I'm reading the cultural landmarks better than before. Consequently, I am not as stressed as before -- which means I am also able to trust my own judgment better.
2. I will train for and pass another grading. This will happen some time this year, probably June. I'm getting older, so I need to give myself some concessions. Above all, I want to make sure my knees are stronger, so that I can do some serious sparring. I will attend some night sparring classes to improve in this area.
3. Languages. I will push forward with learning Shona and perhaps developing my French. I recently watched a video with Camus speaking French. With reference to the subtitles, I realized I could already understand quite a lot of what he was saying. I would also like to delve more deeply into formal logic, to see whether I can learn this language better than I did when I first tried to, quite some years ago.
4. Leisure. I will go running on the beach -- get some vitamin D (sunlight) and do some sprints.
5. I will continue with my writing and editing work -- my father's memoir and the intellectual shamanism paradigm I am inventing.
6. Camping. I will continue to take journeys into nature, for days at a time, in order to zone out.
7. Openness. I will be open to whatever opportunities for work or personal development appear.
Attitude can carry you forward like a wave. I do expect to be carried in that way in 2013. My underlying drives, having been been given channels and underlying structure by my already existing habits, should take me further this year than they did in 2012.
At the same time, concrete goals should be established -- not to replace the underground channels I have contrived and constructed, but to make the journey more meaningful.
With respect to this, here are my concrete goals for 2013:
1. I will write at least one book that is not messy, mad or half-heartily edited. I've found it extremely difficult to edit my own work in the past because when you are heavily immersed in developing completely new ideas, you can't step back and see the words from a fresh perspective. In 2012, I did a lot of stepping back and revising. One has to realize that different audiences have different needs.
Also, in the past, I didn't have an adequate understanding of where any particular type of criticism originated. I didn't understand the factional nature of Western society, so I used to give equal weight to 'criticisms' of my writing that came from men's rights activists as I did to professors or anyone else who wanted to criticize something I'd written.
That's what can happen when you have spent your formative years in a totally different milieu. I've since learned who to trust and who not to. I'm reading the cultural landmarks better than before. Consequently, I am not as stressed as before -- which means I am also able to trust my own judgment better.
2. I will train for and pass another grading. This will happen some time this year, probably June. I'm getting older, so I need to give myself some concessions. Above all, I want to make sure my knees are stronger, so that I can do some serious sparring. I will attend some night sparring classes to improve in this area.
3. Languages. I will push forward with learning Shona and perhaps developing my French. I recently watched a video with Camus speaking French. With reference to the subtitles, I realized I could already understand quite a lot of what he was saying. I would also like to delve more deeply into formal logic, to see whether I can learn this language better than I did when I first tried to, quite some years ago.
4. Leisure. I will go running on the beach -- get some vitamin D (sunlight) and do some sprints.
5. I will continue with my writing and editing work -- my father's memoir and the intellectual shamanism paradigm I am inventing.
6. Camping. I will continue to take journeys into nature, for days at a time, in order to zone out.
7. Openness. I will be open to whatever opportunities for work or personal development appear.
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