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Re: Ask HN: What's your most interesting life goal currently?

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Post by WesleyJohnson »

abstractbill wrote: post #96
WesleyJohnson wrote: post #65

I suppose the most interesting goal, to me, is getting my teeth fixed. I didn't take care of them all through my twenties and it's had serious repercussions on my social and professional life as well as taking a drastic toll on my confidence. Roadblocks and/or bottlenecks are easy: finances. Dental work isn't cheap, especially when you're looking at as much work as I need done. The "fear" of the dentist was also an i…

I had awful dental hygiene up until my mid-20s. A big step for me was finding a dentist I trusted, and just doing what he told me - letting go of the fear that he was going to completely drain me financially. It wasn't cheap, but eventually all the required work was done, and I formed new habits that have meant no no work has been needed for several years now. One of the most important things I did was get invisalign…

I'm with you there. The dentist I have now I really feel like I can trust and she's given me a care plan that isn't just the highest priced option, but all my options. She recently went in to do a root canal and found out I didn't need one when she could've just as easily done it and charged me for it.

But I do agree, I think once I've gotten the work done, taking caring of them should be easier.

Re: Ask HN: What's your most interesting life goal currently?

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Post by abstractbill »

Mc_Big_G wrote: post #107

Don't get killed by a bear or experience any other medical emergency during a week-long, dispersed camping trip in northern California.

Banging pots and pans together will usually scare bears away. If not, just remember you don't have to outrun the bear - you just have to outrun your slowest friend.

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Post by Concours »

turning my ventures profitable enough to do whatever I want, whenever and wherever I want. Then do a couple of Kids. If I could just find out how to do tweens, priceless.

Bottleneck: have two kids at once, and gain some 2 years (time between first and second kid)

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Post by toisanji »

My current life goals are to run a marathon this summer (I'm running a half marathon this month) and to practice yoga daily. I've also been working on a project to help people accomplish their life goals: http://yana.com If you want to check it out, the beta code is "ycnews"

Re: Ask HN: What's your most interesting life goal currently?

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Post by mattheww »

I want to start a company that builds solar panels in space.

Roadblocks (the ones I think are the biggest anyway):

Supply Chain. Probably going to first need a way to or supplier who can mine and process materials from somewhere other than Earth.

Infrastructure. Definitely going to need some sort of factory in space in which this operation can be done.

Knowledge. I don't know anything about manufacturing in space. There's some research in the area, but my guess is that the knowledge base just doesn't exist.

edit: formatting

Re: Ask HN: What's your most interesting life goal currently?

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Post by foxtrot »

captaink wrote: post #31
foxtrot wrote: post #5

Debt Free

As someone who just managed that this year, a few pointers. 1. Budget. I know it sucks, and I know it is a hassle, still, no way around it. Grab excel or numbers or openOffice and do it start of each month. 2. Split accounts I have used this technique to great success. - 1st account is the "INCOMING" account, This is where all incoming money goes to and all fixed costs (see 1. Budget) go away from. - 2nd account is a…

#2 is something that I am already in the process of setting up. I am going to leave my main card at home, and then setup standing orders to transfer my pocket money into my new account every week. This seems like the most logical way to reign in unnecessary spending.

The other practice I want to get in the habit of is telling my self that I can only spend money if I have earned it from doing extra work, be it web design, cutting a hedge etc. That should motivate me to get out and about to earn extra on the side.

Its going to be very tough thats for sure, then again some of the happiest times of my life have been when ive been broke.

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Post by [deleted] »

adamilardi wrote: post #14
jeb wrote: post #4

I'm planning to identify a suitable candidate to get married to, and who is genetically appropriate enough to give me good quality kids, then convince this person to marry me and carry my child, within the next year. Difficult, but I assume interesting.

My advice: Don't tell them that on the first date.

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Post by RickFromSA »

davidw wrote: post #16

Raising our daughter. Current bottleneck: not using potty. Think we'll just have to wait until she's ready though!

I hesitate to suggest parenting techniques, because each child is different. Rather, a story of what works for us: Our son is 10 months old and he uses 1 diaper a day (max). My wife loosely followed the tenets of: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elimination_communication and "The Diaper Free Baby"

Early on you put the child on the potty when they have a high likelihood of needing to pee/poop. You keep a potty nearby, put them on it 10 times a day and make it fun: read books while they sit on it. He learned to associate peeing/pooping with the potty very quickly. After 3 months or so he will now generally wait for the potty. He has his little routine and my wife knows the general times he needs to go and puts him on the pot. He only uses a diaper when in the car or sometimes at night.

EDIT: I forgot to mention that EC/Diaper Free Baby suggest the reason babies commonly pee on you when you remove their diaper is that it goes against their instinct to soil themselves in their diaper. When you remove it, its time to go! The argument is that a baby who is afforded the opportunity to learn to use the potty quickly will be happier. My son is very happy to use the pot. In fact he is sitting on it right now :)

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Post by roel_v »

metastew wrote: post #94
petervandijck wrote: post #69

Earlier quoted context omitted.

2 years worth of money is how much in this case? 30,000$-ish?

In my case, it's about $20,000. $30,000 would enable you to live very comfortably while abroad, I would think. I work at a lowly data-entry night shift job which explains why I make abysmal wages, and also I'm paying for college for the next 2 years. At graduation, I'm aiming for $15,000-20,000 saved up by then.

Depends on where 'abroad' is. If you're coming to Europe it's not much. Also don't underestimate how much COL has risen across the world the last couple of years. Yes you can still live cheap in the countryside of China or Angola, but the 'connected' places across the world aren't that cheap any more.
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