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AnSionnachRua  ·  2659 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: What are your goals for 2017?

I can probably guess what my goals were for last year and the year before, without even checking:

1. Quit smoking.

2. Run more.

3. Play mandolin.

For yet another year, I haven't actually gone forward with any of those, making them pretty typical "New Year's Resolutions". Though I go jogging on-and-off, I've pretty much only managed to hold onto the 5K level of running rather than getting anywhere, I don't think I touched the mandolin once, and I smoke more than ever.

So I'm a bit askance about making promises I won't keep. All three of those are still things I hope to do, though.

I've been feeling pretty mouldy, lately, and in lieu of forming a "plan" for the future I settled on three goals for the next short while (by which I mean up to six months from now):

1. Get some experience in a pub.

I don't even know why. I just sort of wanted to for no particular reason. I'm always worried about "what to do" with my life, and it doesn't seem like bar work is the best idea in that sense. But it does give me a useful skill, especially if I ever do decide to go and "travel".

I've gotten a bit of part-time work in a local pub here, with a good bunch of nights over Christmas, but it's a fairly small town and come January I don't know what things will look like. We'll see. I don't know what I'm doing in six months anyway - perhaps I'll have left this town and moved elsewhere.

2. Learn how to drive.

I've lived in or near Dublin for the last seven odd years, and have always either walked or used public transportation - having a car would be a burden. Now, though, I'm back living in the west of Ireland, and more to the point, I don't want to learn how to drive until when I need to. So far I've done the theory test and and applied for a learner permit (got it yesterday in the post). The next step is unclear, since I don't have a car insured in my name for practising in, and no financial means of really changing that.

3. Write a book about my walk around Ireland.

I have been unable to force myself to do this, instead spending most of my time sitting around doing sweet-all. I know I need a kick up the arse. What's the cure for procrastination?

Also I want to climb a bunch of mountains in Ireland. The tallest we have is only 1000m, so it's not that they're that big, they're just hard to get to without a car.