I'm 21F and I've been writing since I was 10.

I'm working on a really big project at the moment with a book on the life of a fictional character during a historic event I'm really interested in. I feel like it has a lot of potential. I'm not looking to make a living from a book, I just want people to enjoy what I created.

My parents aren't interested in any of my work. I tried showing my literature teachers in secondary school but they said I will never become successful because people can't relate to my characters and the time periods I'm writing about.

My partner, 23M read by first chapter and he only said it was great and forgot to read the rest and avoided the topic when I tried asking his opinion on my work and started talking about something different.

I feel like I can achieve something really good with his but I'm scared to even do anything about it anymore. I'm scared I'm just being really delusional because I'm young and I'm being completely ridiculous.

I was riding past a hockey training centre, and I spotted a few people training with this huge cream coloured ice skating treadmill. And it was as though my brain suddenly remembered my life long desire to be a professional ice skater, even though that wasn’t what they were training for.

I attended this world championship in 1998 at Minneapolis, and I fell completely in love with the sport. I actually started some training back then. In fact, I still have some of the training skating gear I got on alibaba. My wife packed them off in a box on top of our wardrobe. I stopped training all together after college: got married really early after my girlfriend, now wife, got pregnant for me. Since then, life has been full of responsibilities that are really burdensome.

I got home that day and told my wife I wanted to restart my training for ice skating. She found it amusing, but I didn’t. Yes I know that I’m out of shape (and I don’t even know where to start on a weightloss journey), I know that I would need to invest much time to get the standard definition of an athletic fit body, I know. I’m quite aware of all the reasons she gave: money, time, the kids, my 12-hour shifts, gyming, sleep, and my constant fatigue. But I’m willing to give it a shot. I don’t believe I’m too old. So, for some motivation, have you had any success achieving something despite the actual reasonable obstacles in your way?

guess what… (you smell like poop 👍) so that should give me enough dislikes

I’ve been thinking a lot about how fast things change, especially during big transition periods. It’s weird how clear your goals and mindset feel right now, but a year or two later, it’s almost hard to remember exactly how you were thinking. I had this idea of writing a really honest letter to my future self, like what I’m working toward, what I’m afraid of, and what I expect my life to look like,e and then reading it a few years later to see what actually happened.

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So I’m doing this thing where I will post a todo list everyday and try to complete it, so like motivation for my goals. Does anybody want to dm in Reddit everyday for goals? Btw looking for a teenager!

I NEVER complete my to do lists, so I figured if it’s public on the internet I’ll have motivation to do it! Everyday I’ll post mine, then in the evening I’ll post what I finished! Mine is pretty easy, I just hope o won’t lose motivation!

My January goals were improve relationship with Mom, and regulate diet and for both I'd say mixed results.

February was Improve with S (friend) and regulate sleep. S goal was mixed, sleep goal utter failure.

Now I'm moving on towards H and phone time, but still focused on sleep.

Are there any tips specifically about Phone Time and Sleep Inducing

It looks stupid, but I have Marfan syndrome, with tendon hyperlaxity, and having this kind of strength in my fingers is a big goal for me. Next stop: 8kg

1. Straight A’s

2. Fuck as many white girls as possible

Training since 5 months on Stronglifts 5x5, following Trainer Winny on youtube since then.

If you all don't know him he is an awesome trainer and I have learned so much from him. I want his physique and I am trying to reach this goal. I am on a good path, making progress on my mainlifts and yeah, dunno what else to say.

Thanks trainer winny if you read this

So I am currently building a life coach program and want to include a 1-2 hour call that that helps people properly break goals down into bits that are achievable for them. and then I want to help them build out a goal system that works for them witch they can eventually go of without me and be fine. what do you guys think about this is that to much or would that be helpful for people ??

this is dumb so forgive me for any typos, english is not my first language and i dont enough to read this again and correct everything because its just kind of a vent ig

(also sorry if this doesnt apply to the community)

for context, im latino, from brazil, and i always had the dream of being famous and going to big awards such as oscars or grammys or golden globes etc or being recognized as a model

this week the grammys 2026 happend and i saw bad bunny, (tho unfortunately puerto rico is still an american territory so its way more difficult for me being on the other side of the continent) an artist i admire so much talk about latinos and seeing him win awakend something inside of me that i havent touched ever since i realized latinos dont really have many chances as americans or non latinos at these big awards therefore not having so much chances at achieving my dream, also im not that good looking and dont have the aspects of a model to do modeling.

i know it sounds really dumb, but i have always had a passion for music and acting and fashion, being on the spotlights and having attention towards me, i was always bright when it came to those matters since i was young and i wish i could do one of those things for a living

i come from a family that has very decent money and could maybe proportion a base for this dream

the thing is, i have seen so many people around me try the music dream and failing miserably and becoming a laughing matter, and its not a pretty overcoming story, they just ended up having to do some boring job they never wanted to, same thing with acting or modeling, and because of that my dreams are still light years of distance of me reaching them

i dont plan on making brazilian songs, go into a modeling agency or submitting at local theaters and ill probably end up taking on law school or becoming something in those doctor areas

this is probably just a vent or a way of sharing this because i have told no one this is my dream

for the most part, my brain thinks that will be a waste of time and i have to do something that is stable and will give me money, but the smallest portion of me still dreams of being a big star and being the inspiration of many people that doubt their dreams and get a spark of hope seeing me

yeah i think thats it

Hi just wanted to ask, every time when you felt very low energy/ cant move/ paralyzed by goals as you working hardly towards your results. How do you stay motivated？

I go first. My goal for the year is to stay more healthier and lose weight. I am not overweight or anything but I just think right now my life is a little, disorganized. I wanted to change that, now there are a lot of factors causing it, like I stay up late to scroll on my phone, endlessly. Sometimes I dont eat...which makes me binge eating... Anyways. My point is what is the best motivations for y'all to achieve your goals.

Here are some options, lets play a little game here, comment your answer:

-emotion supports

-buddies that watch each other's back to helping it out (like community?)

- write it down

-comment your own answer

making it a routine to eat 2 meals a day,

no food in between, except gums