Happy New years....2020 goals?

[apamburn]

Happy new years everyone.

I hope and pray that the new year brings success and opportunity to each of you.

I suppose it may be a cliche to set goals at the beginning of the year, but I tend to. What are your goals or aspirations for 2020?

For me, I want to spend more time getting stronger, take a Suarez course or two, spend more time shooting, more time with family, and go on my first deer hunt.

How about you?

[Forklift]

2019 was a really bad year for me so I'm going to put it behind me and try to make up lost ground! Several training courses are first on the agenda, then more range time, and hopefully, if I can swing it, an RMR for one or more of my Glocks.

[Ragsbo]

To survive and thrive!

[Herbert West]

No nonsensical resolutions, do plan on increasing my gym time from 3-4 x/week to a minimum of 5. Aging makes it harder to stay fit so must plan accordingly.

[Gabriel Suarez]

I will do what I have always done and will do until I die. I will train hard, live like a warrior, live aggressively, love fiercely, and give no shits for the opinions of lesser humans. Yet...maybe I will do that even more this year.

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[CDX09]

With my son being older and more manageable, I’d like to be on a line with the Nobody’s, Doza, Brent, Ted, Greg, and Gabe again.


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[ChrisNobody]

With my son being older and more manageable, I’d like to be on a line with the Nobody’s, Doza, Brent, Ted, Greg, and Gabe again.

I think this is a worthy item.

My goal this year is to move the practice further. By this, I mean that I need to get the benefactor’s project back on track. The purpose of the project was to “move the ball forward” in terms of the study and practice of combatives. After nearly four years and $50K invested, the project has impacted a number of individual lives, but has not had a broader impact overall. Departments still teach the same antiquated material that does not reflect the reality of modern combat. Instructors succeed based on celebrity or simply seek out the perception of grandeur rather than impart applicable skills. Students seek out thrill and myth (I can be like a SEAL!) rather than acquire knowledge. The purpose of the project is to start a different path - to start developing next level combatives. I’m to get that moving forward again.

If my health continues to improve - my heart doesn’t take a dump and quit, I need to get pushy and get it going again. I’m ready to get back on the firing line.

[Gabriel Suarez]

Chris...if it means that more terrorists will be killed by the good guys, I will hold off my exit from training and keep teaching on a limited basis.

[Johnny C!]

I had a chiropractic issue that left me in excruciating
pain for two days while walking, in early December.
I have taken off 50 pounds with dieting but my
weight loss has been stagnant for some time. I
knew that exercise was the next step, so using
my 2 days in debilitating pain as my motivator for
my jump start, I signed up with a trainer before
Christmas. I was afraid that if I waited until the
Jan 1, I would forget about my issue, and not
get started. I just got back from the gym a few
minutes ago. I am tired & sore when I get home,
but it is very gratifying. I will never be at the level
that Gabe, and Brent and others are, but I can't
let that stop me from moving myself in that direction
as best I can. I have a loving and beautiful wife, and
an active teenage son. I have to provide security,
comfort & guidance for them, as long as I can, and
I can't expect my son to go do the things that he needs
to be doing at his age, if I can't do them, or don't lead
him.

Thanks again to the tribe for everything you have
to offer to me.

[ErikRN]

Personal goals. On demand, no warm up, one round head shot at 75 yards (the extend of my range).
2 inches off my belly.
Increase my lifts by 30 pounds.
Pay off debts besides the house

[Gunstore Commando]

Mine are pages long, and I don't imagine many of you would be especially interested in my home improvement projects or what kind of a garden I am planning.

This year I did something different, and added some daily and weekly minimums to be achieved no matter what. I posted these already in the "Core Skills" thread in Mind Dojo but here they are again.

Irreducible Minimums for 2020

Daily
5 minutes mobility work
10 minutes pistol
10 minutes Spanish study
10 minutes kickboxing/karate/etc empty-hand work

Weekly
Strength Training (BB deads, KB c&p, cals) X 2
Cardio (mostly ruck) X 1
Anaerobic conditioning X 1, any of sprint, weighted carry, burpees (if possible), KB swings/snatches, heavy bag
Emergency Services study X 1 hour

Two days in and so far I have achieved or bettered the daily minimums, and the week is looking strong.

Thanks again to our gracious host, and also to jwilliams, for helping me clarify these.

[kabar]

At least 7 hours of rack time, no excuses.

[Christopher Calhoun]

Training.

Starting a successful business or otherwise supplement my income. Even if it’s just the beginning stages.

Read eleven more books than I did last year.


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[JonathanNobody]

I think this is a worthy item.

My goal this year is to move the practice further. By this, I mean that I need to get the benefactor’s project back on track. The purpose of the project was to “move the ball forward” in terms of the study and practice of combatives. After nearly four years and $50K invested, the project has impacted a number of individual lives, but has not had a broader impact overall. Departments still teach the same antiquated material that does not reflect the reality of modern combat. Instructors succeed based on celebrity or simply seek out the perception of grandeur rather than impart applicable skills. Students seek out thrill and myth (I can be like a SEAL!) rather than acquire knowledge. The purpose of the project is to start a different path - to start developing next level combatives. I’m to get that moving forward again.

If my health continues to improve - my heart doesn’t take a dump and quit, I need to get pushy and get it going again. I’m ready to get back on the firing line.

I’ll work with you on this. My goal is to train for the reality we face in 2020: exceptionally well trained and equipped adversaries actively looking for a fight and willing to not make it home afterwards. A version of that was shot a few feet from my office earlier this year. I invite his friends to come by and say hello anytime.

[Gunstore Commando]

some daily and weekly minimums to be achieved no matter what.

One month accountability check-in…


Yeah. Okay. So far, so good. Every day no days off. All daily and weekly goals met or exceeded. (Although I will cop to sometimes double-counting practice of “Changing Levels” both as pistol drill and also as mobility work. I don’t feel the least bit bad about that.)


Getting back to the part about “or exceeded” — you know, sometimes the toughest part of the day is doing the first rep; or cracking the textbook open; or getting the practice piece out of the gun safe, clearing it, and standing in front of the dry-fire target; or shouldering the ruck; or whatever. Once you get past that, it can be kind of easy to say “yeah, this is going to be more than ten minutes today”.


Conversely, at the end of a tough day, a bare minimum of stuff still gets done. And at the end of a tough week, even that bare minimum starts to add up. It’s certainly a whole lot better than nothing.


I’m really glad I started doing this. Every day no days off.

Thanks to all of you, for everything.

[Gunstore Commando]

Three month accountability checking...

I missed cardio one week because I punked out. And I missed the mobility drills a couple of times, and the pistol and empty hand once or twice each, but because I spaced and lost track of what I was doing, not because I punked out. And I need to pick up the intensity on the anaerobic stuff.

On the other hand, a lot of these minimums have been exceeded. For example, the way my year is shaping up so far, the emergency study goal has pretty much been a gimme.

I'm glad I set these minimums low. At the end of a tough day, it's a lot easier to tell yourself "ok, just another half hour or so and I can hit the rack", than to face a couple of hours of work.

I remain really glad I did this.

[Gunstore Commando]

Six month accountability checkin...

I was doing pretty good until I got five mulligans in the last week and a half of June. I was going to write a lengthy explanation of why that happened, but then I realized that would be acting like a punk six times, instead of five times. I also missed a cardio session and a handgun session (horrors!) because I spaced, but not because I was acting like a punk.

On the other hand, I have done a whole lot more work than I would have otherwise. Back at it. EDNDO.

[Gunstore Commando]

Twelve month accountability checkin...

Well, I was doing pretty well until the Covid epidemic, among other things, sucked up an awful lot of my time. I am as suspciious of The Party Line on the "pandemic" as anyone here, but believe this, too -- one way or another it has ended up sucking up great amounts of my time,

On the other hand, I able toi put in the kind of hours I have been pulling lately, byt the grace of God, of course, but also because I have put in the time to prepare myself to be His servant. I have ended up missing a lot of days lately, but I have done what I could.

Major change for the next year is the realization that EDNDO is not feasible for me right now given the hours I, at least sometimes, have been putting in. Only daily goal for next year is mobility (which I have not done especially well at). The rest of the daily goals become weekly goals at 90 minutes a week instead of ten minutes a day. That will give me the chance to make up (or even get ahead) for lost time if I end up working doubles, etc.

And as before, I have done a whole lot more work than I would have otherwise. I remain glad I did this.

[WOLF220]

Good for you bro! Well done!