Everyone has something they are currently working toward in life. Whether it be finishing school, doing good at your job, etc.

What are you currently working towards? I'm trying to exercise a lot more because frankly, my weight has gotten to too high of a number for me to be comfortable with myself at the moment. School is also a persisting issue at the moment, but I asked to be accepted into online classes next semester so hopefully that will take a huge load of things off of my back.

I'd like to pursue a career in the world of voice acting. I'm nearly done with my "preparation" (because there's no other word that fits better), and while the path is tough, I have a team to work with to keep gaining experience and attempt to enter this hermetic world. We do have a few backup plans, like getting more preparation somewhere else, but for now I want to try my luck and see how far can I go.

I also want to finish my other studies, regarding the world of radio and TV commentating, so then I'll have full access to anything that requires a voice to be put in, and as such, a wide range of opportunities. I should be done with this by February and start looking for my first chances during the Spring, but I've been procrastinating these past weeks and I'm even wondering if I can finish it in time.

Besides that, the only goal I have fully clear relies more on the personal level, which I don't want to share just yet. The only thing I'll say is that the latter quarter of this year I've been shown that something I started to consider as impossible was actually pretty possible, even in the short run, which obviously motivates me to keep moving forward.

Currently my goals are to just work and save up enough money to buy either by my own place or buy into a house with my father. But video game wise my goal is to scratch together enough free time to beat megaman zx over again, and beat gunvolt the azure striker 2 as well as castlevania symphony of the night.

So far, the only goal I have to get accomplished is getting out of a financial bubble that me and my brother has been in as of late, although we are close of accomplishing that goal though.

Once that is taken care of, mostly our goal is to save up money so we don't have any issues with expenses, and we can actually save money up and do a lot more interesting things.

Although long term goal I like to achieve is save money to take a trip to Japan, I always wanted to go to Japan.

EX Palen :

Ah, voice acting is one of my backup plan of a possible career choice if my first choice fails. If you could give me any tips and tricks sometime I would appreciate it.

Divine Aurora : Mega Man ZX was my first Mega Man game and is one of my favorites, great game to replay through. Good luck on finding your own place.

For me it's getting though college, need to take my classes and pass them. Then I'll be able to make ze monies.

I hope to get into a Computer Science Ph.D. program I would be happy in. The idea of research (which I think is involved in a Ph.D.) is fun, I enjoyed making/presenting my first published peer-reviewed research work (https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8530061) at an international conference with the help of my professor. It's like trying out new things to achieve a new goal or trying to achieve a prevalent goal in your own new way. It can be really interesting and I'd hope to do lots of this in a Ph.D. program. Not easy, but it's something I'd enjoy struggling in. 

Lexatom : I am glad you asked, sir. I am currently working at a somewhat substandard factory belonging to the Hudson's Bay Company. However, given my pay and usage of free time, I hope to make a financial difference in the coming months (I.e. donations put toward David's Patreon and others) in order to show how much I care, and to actively support those I appreciate rather than act passively. I have also been interested in storytelling recently, and I am to sharpen my writing skills by reading more often and reflecting upon what I feel makes for an enticing read.  

Lexatom : Well, not sure how the world of voice acting goes at the other side of the puddle, but I think it should be even more hermetic than ours. After all, you don't have to dub the very big amount of material produced in Hollywood and the ever increasing amount of series produced by HBO, Netflix and many others.

I could give you some tips anytime. Not like I'm a big expert since I haven't yet made any official recording, but I'm pretty sure that what we're told to do here should mostly apply over there as well.

I'm a very goal oriented person so naturally I have a lot of goals but there are some overarching long term ones that I have been pretty set in for a long time.

Some of them are intellectual pursuits. Getting through my bachelors degree and eventually going for a masters degree in Economics or Asian Studies is one of them. So far I've been getting above average grades in my Political Science course but I know I'm capable of doing even better if I spend more time on it. I just don't want it to eat up all of my time. Another is trying to learn Japanese which I've been working on for quite some time now. I'm considering taking the JLPT N5 test when it is held during summer next year(basically a standarized test issued by the Japanese government to certify language skill, N5 being the lowest level). But it's only issued in Stockholm so it would require a pretty long train trip.

Others are more related to self improvement. I hope to attain a certain level of fitness. I've already noticed results in this area because I've been going to the gym somewhat regularly for a while now but I'd like to shape it in to a more set routine. Another one that has bothered me for me a long time is to make progress on relationships and be more social in general. Since I have been spending more time with others and am currently dating someone I feel like I've finally made some progress on that front.

In the end though I think my ultimate goal is just mastering how to divide up my time. Turns out pursuing so many different things at once is kind of strenuous. Even though I've made decent progress on these fronts during the past months I still struggle in terms of how to balance my time effectively and often feel like I'm still not progressing as fast as I would like. The easiest way to solve this would likely be by just focusing on one or two things at a time but I'm far too stubborn do that

Currently my goals are to go back to school for a degree in IT, but I don't plan to go back to school until the next few years or less. Another goal I have to is to meet as many sports mascot as I could, even ones in other countries. 

I have a bunch of goals right now.

A. I want to finish school on time. Hopefully next semester I will take 3 classes and the semester after that I will take one and an internship.

B. I need to actually find an internship.

3. I want to move up in the writing world. Right now I still write about baseball for two places and about movies and TV for another 2 places, and I want to get a better position soon.

IV. Once christmas is over and we're back to pain and sorrow, I want to keep my job at Gamestop.

E. I HAVE TO GET A GIRLFIEND.

My current goal is to figure out what the goals I want are.

I'm not too sure of what I want to do. I've been focusing on helping build other people so much, now that it's my turn to work on myself I'm not sure where to turn. At the moment, I'm working on building a career out of my hobby until I figure out what it is that I really want to accomplish as a goal.

I have a few.

1. Train up for a certification that I'm required to pass in the next year, for a raise in pay, status, and respect.

2. Save up for a house. I'm at a period in time in my life where now I have a stable income, and can effectively save, without blowing most of my income on food, and rent. I've actually had a decent head start, and a great system that keeps everything accounted for, even in the case of an emergency.

3. Find some freaking friends to hang out with. I've had a decent start with this as well, having joined a local running club, but 95% of the members are like 20+ years older than me, and the 5% who aren't are high school kids, basically. There are very few people who are my age group in the club, and while that's not the end of the world, I kind of want friends who are my age, and have the same general hobbies. It's hard for me to have as much wacky/goofy fun with people who are twice my age, and it's impossible to relate to today's youth. (I'm only 26, so it's not like I'm ancient).

4. I kind of want to use my free time more effectively. I do too much stupid s*** that wastes the day away.

I’m trying to practice patience. I think wanting everything to happen all at once is where I go wrong in life, and good things come to those who wait. What’s the rush, anyways? Furthermore, I want to eventually get first aid training to become a babysitter. I live around a lot of rich families, so it’s practically a gold mine. I’m going to try and make more money moves come 2019 

I come up with goals, but then I have a hard time sticking with them. It seems like my interests shift after a little while and, given my current situation, things change before I ever manage to make any progress towards those ends. That said, I've figure out a place that will probably sound insane to a lot of people.

Step 1: get a semi-decent paying job and save money.

Step 2: buy a car.

Step 3: put away enough money that I'll be able to live reasonably well between jobs if I wind up that way. An emergency fund, I'll call it.

Step 4: move out of the house and live out of my car, going somewhere there are better and better playing jobs.


Recent events have made me realize that there's so much I have right now that I both take for granted and also don't absolutely need. Given the wages and the rent in the area, there's no way I'd be able to support myself on a single income, and I don't know anyone else, let along trust them enough to be able to, that I could room with. If I live out of a car or a van, I have a place to stay warm and dry and sleep, I can use library and fast food wifi connections to stay connected, I can shave and shower at a gym, I can charge devices at any number of places and keep a generator on hand in the event something like that isn't available, I can cook with propane camping equipment... And I would almost be willing to wager all of that combined would be less than the $550 a month for rent and utilities it would cost for a super dumpy one bedroom apartment.

I may yet decide against it all and go with a safer plan, but right now, believe it or not, this is the most productive plan I have.

My current goal is just being more friendly towards people, this year has been a mix of me being nice to people and being a total ass to people, so I'm hoping to get better at things. I want to help people who are hurting, even if they're people who hurt me or actively hate me.

I guess that also means I need to be learning forgiveness. Forgiveness is harder than anything, but it's possible. We'll see how it goes, I suppose.

For this year, since I obtained a promotion in real life that I've been working towards for quite a while now, my current endeavor/goal is working towards real life goals like raising the quality of my work and Vizzed goals like spending less time on Vizzed each day. After viewing the first few days of this TDV, I've decided that there's no need for me to watch Vizzed and the TDVs anymore, so I'm going back to doing whatever I want, whenever I want. For me, this is going to be incredibly liberating and I can't wait to get back to just doing random things with seemingly "no rhyme or reason." XD

I've been making a lot more progress in real life and with this post, I'm now running top speed along the path I chose years ago towards the type of happiness that I've been helping those around me to obtain. Well, it's now my turn to be in the limelight again. For those that are doing the same things as me, good luck and see you in the arena~

So I already talked about my IRL goals last month but now that we are seeing so much activity, I thought I'd might as well also talk about my vizzed goals.

One goal that I have is to pass 1000 posts in a month. It's been years since I've done it and thought it was impossible less than 2 weeks ago.

For the year, I want to pass Leggy and reach 30,000 posts. I also want to try to pass 150,000 CP and 2 million total wordd st some point in 2019.

Yuna1000 : Congratulations on your new promotion. It's a shame that we won't have you watching the site as often since seemingly nothing gets past you, but I'm happy tat things are moving forward in your career.