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Your Greatest Ambition

Your Greatest Ambition


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ronpaulvoter

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A simple question: What is your greatest goal in life?

Feel free to use the discussion to give your second, third, and subsequent choices.
 
Raise a family. Wouldn't mind being rich, though.
 
Family and marriage.
Raise a house full of children

And if not, a career and travel the world would also work.
 
My greatest ambition is to be content.
 
Being a good father, a good husband, and being happy and content with life. I am happy and content with my life.
 
Being a good father, a good husband, and being happy and content with life. I am happy and content with my life.
That's great, I hope to achieve the same. Contentment is in the mind.
 
I picked "protect environment", just for the lolz in it.
I would make this poll a multi-options poll, because I'm really not interested in simply one of the options.
 
I do volunteer work for vet's. Of the things I do, nothing makes me happier, so I think making a difference for our vets would be mine.
 
To pass on my genes
 
I'd like to be POTUS, or possibly a science fiction author.

When I get older I might have some more realistic goals, but those are mine right now.
 
I'd like to be POTUS, or possibly a science fiction author.

When I get older I might have some more realistic goals, but those are mine right now.

If every one got more realistic goals, we would not have a POTUS or science fiction authors.

Aim high. You might miss, but at least you won't shoot yourself in the foot.
 
I just want to be rich. Not bloody rich, just comfortably rich.
 
Of the ones you listed, I guess I'd pick "help the poor worldwide." I wasn't sure if I should pick "raise a family." While I would like to get married some day (and that would be at the top of my list), I don't want any kids.

Other aspirations...to be wealthy, to work in jobs that I love, and to have plenty of leisure time. Those may or may not be mutually incompatible goals.
 
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Other aspirations...to be wealthy, to work in jobs that I love, and to have plenty of leisure time. Those may or may not be mutually incompatible goals.

You're going to have to choose one, because those three are definitely imcompatible with each other.
 
Of the ones you listed, I guess I'd pick "help the poor worldwide." I wasn't sure if I should pick "raise a family." While I would like to get married some day (and that would be at the top of my list), I don't want any kids.

Other aspirations...to be wealthy, to work in jobs that I love, and to have plenty of leisure time. Those may or may not be mutually incompatible goals.

Win the lotto, then you can have all of them.
 
Win the lotto, then you can have all of them.

And be careful not to piss the money away too fast.

I guy I work with won $1.2 million--that's what he got after taxes. That was January of '08. Yeah, it's gone. All he has to show for it is a real nice house that he can't afford the property taxes on.
 
And be careful not to piss the money away too fast.

I guy I work with won $1.2 million--that's what he got after taxes. That was January of '08. Yeah, it's gone. All he has to show for it is a real nice house that he can't afford the property taxes on.

Yeah, I have heard the horror stories. My dad actually knew a lotto winner who was afraid to claim the prize because of the stories. Dad sent him to a professional money manager who set it up so that he could only access so much easily to help prevent something like that.
 
I think that the so-called "lottery curse" stems more from the people themselves than from actually winning the money. The types of people who are inclined to play the lottery on a regular basis are probably not the savviest money managers. If they were, they probably wouldn't be playing the lottery in the first place.
 
I think that the so-called "lottery curse" stems more from the people themselves than from actually winning the money. The types of people who are inclined to play the lottery on a regular basis are probably not the savviest money managers. If they were, they probably wouldn't be playing the lottery in the first place.

Well, yes.
 
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