What do you wish you could do and what's stopping you doing it?

For me, probably speak another language fluently. What's stopping me? Being a lazy-bones :)

I can't think of anything right now, which is a great feeling. Got a fun job. Just moved to a new apartment. Fiancée, love of my life.

Two weeks of vacation, starting yesterday.

I'm good.

Fly.

Lack of wings.

I can't think of anything right now, which is a great feeling. Got a fun job. Just moved to a new apartment. Fiancée, love of my life.

Two weeks of vacation, starting yesterday.

I'm good.

Teleportation, what's stopping me is my lack of superpowers.

Telekinesis, what's stopping me is reality.

Moving out, what's stopping me is I'm still in High School.

Learning to play a bass guitar, and a few things are stopping me.

1. Money to actually purchase the bass

2. If I suddenly had the money to purchase said bass, I have a tendency to lose interest in something if I'm not getting near instant results, which I know won't happen with the bass.

3. College and my Resident Assistant job take up a lot of time that could be used to practice playing the bass.

Quit drinking.

Will power.

Read another language fluently and...I don't know. My inability to learn?

Move out. But I don't have the money yet.

Nothing! Already firmly on track for my dream. :) (being fluent in Japanese and studying abroad, end goal being translation work)

Very inappropriate things, and human decency.

Quitting my awful job and going back to college.

The $5227 in debt to my old school that prevents me from sending transcripts anywhere.

Having sex with Jennifer Aniston. What's stopping me? A restraining order.

A whole bunch of stuff and a lack of talent and drive.

Get a pet, but no pets allowed in apartment...

Wow, I have a ton of stuff, but I can reduce it down to two things

ONE

- I wish I procrastinated about work, relationships, and creative projects less

- I wish all the thing I do procrastinate about didn't involve things that would make me happy and more successful.

TWO

- I wish I was less shy and more outgoing.

- I wish my life were a bit harder. (no really, because my good job, monetary security really makes me complacent.)

I don't want to have to do anything. I want to be able to sit around and do nothing for months at a time if I so choose to or to get up and learn some new skill/hobby at the drop of a hat. Needing a job and not having enough money to live off the interest prevents me from doing it.

@crusader8463 said:

I don't want to have to do anything. I want to be able to sit around and do nothing for months at a time if I so choose to or to get up and learn some new skill/hobby at the drop of a hat. Needing a job and not having enough money to live off the interest prevents me from doing it.

I'm living that dream, unfortunately the money is running out!

Truthfully I need to be serious about work again after living the life. Have a woman I love beside me, so saying I'm doing "nothing" is a stretch though.

I wish I could sketch/draw both digitally and non-digitally like some good concept artists do, its an amazing skill that I respect.

Welcome to the depression thread!

I wish I could record an album. But not having money for equipment/the technical know-how is kind of preventing that.

I wish I could stop being bored, but unfortunately my boredom is what's stopping me from doing it.

everything, money.

I'd like to get my writing out there more. The problem is that, while I enjoy my subject matter, it's pretty niche. It would be hard to use SEO to drive more traffic, because nobody is looking for it. I also don't want to be annoying and spam my site everywhere. I've put it on a couple threads here, Reddit, a couple on NeoGAF, and even Patrick had mentioned an article of mine in an October edition of Worth Reading. That was amazing, and drove about 2000 unique visitors to my site in the span of a week. Unfortunately, now it's back to its normal traffic of about 30 unique visitors a day. Occasionally I get a spike here and there. I wrote a piece about Riven and sent it to one of the original designers who re-tweeted it. That was awesome. I sent a submission to Kill Screen (their site, not their publication), because I think their site could use more features like mine, but they never got back to me.

My site is www.VGcovercritique.com

I write analysis and critique of video game box art. I try to teach my audience with every article. I often try to incorporate some historical examples in my work, and try to make each article a mini art history lesson along with the analysis. I know that it's a dry topic for many. Most colleges force students into one art history class, and 90% of them sleep through it or don't even show up. I graduated with a BFA, so I had to take four art history classes. I loved them, and really enjoyed all of the content. So I understand that my field here is niche. Video game lovers who also are interested in artistic analysis and history? But still. There has to be some way I can get it "out there" a bit more. I need to do more research into organizations who might appreciate what I do. Also, I need to put Binary Domain down for a minute and write another article this week. I'm thinkin' an analysis of Black Isle's historic style of box art.

@Galiant said:

I can't think of anything right now, which is a great feeling. Got a fun job. Just moved to a new apartment. Fiancée, love of my life.

Two weeks of vacation, starting yesterday.

I'm good.

I'll have what he's having. Plus sky diving.

What's stopping me? My complete and utter failings as a human being. Plus I don't have the money for sky diving.

I love FTL so i would like to work on FTL. Either on the main game or an expansion or on a port to other platforms. I even worked on a quick mockup to see how it could control on tablets ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJpKfjYBg8E ). What's stopping me from doing it? Well, the FTL fellas didn't get back to me when sending them the link of the video so unless they do at some point my remaining options are either to give that project dream up, work on a clone or change it so much that it wouldn't be FTL anymore, hmz.

The ability to fly so I could avoid the dumb people at the TSA, when I travel...

@fisher81 said:

Quitting my awful job and going back to college.

The $5227 in debt to my old school that prevents me from sending transcripts anywhere.

Same here, like exactly. Except it's $12,500. But crummy job that I don't want to do anymore and desire to go back to college? Check!

Just play video games. Always, without interruption.

Boring, frustrating life obligations.

Get rich quick.

Security guards.

What I Want to Do: Eat Human Flesh

What's Stopping Me: NOTHING!

MUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAA!

@fisher81 said:

Quitting my awful job and going back to college.

The $5227 in debt to my old school that prevents me from sending transcripts anywhere.

I'm going back to college too. Being a web designer isn't bad, but I really want to be in the film industry, so I am going back for 3D animation and motion graphics.

Become a nurse.

Math is hard as shit.

Recover from my hangover in peace without being made to feel guilty about it.

Person i'm working on a project with making sweeping statements about my attitude based on that.

Win the lottery.

Bad luck.

I would like to own a bar on the beach in the Bahamas.

What's stoping me? $$$$$

Star my own business. What's stopping me...failure, being dead ass broke.

Be a musician.

What's stopping me? Nothing, to be completely honest. I don't have money or any innate talent that I know of, but both can be gained. I'm not at any particular disadvantage; I can hold a note, I have some sense of rhythm... I just need to apply myself. The trouble lies in actually doing so.

I don't have my head in the clouds... I don't expect to be famous, and I know that even if I find myself in a successful local act some day, it won't be enough to live off of, but it still feels like a foolish pipe dream, and so it's tough to find that motivation. There are people living the starving artist life that are far, FAR more talented than I, after all. Take my friend Palmer for instance: The guy is a riot, has done television for years, is all kinds of talented as an actor, and he's barely able to keep his rent paid.

Entertainment is my passion, though, and I need to find that motivation. I'm closer to 30 than 20, and it's time to get off my ass and choose a path in life, and take the inevitable lumps that come with my choice.

I wish I could pack up all my things, shove them in my car and drive all the way to New York City where I would get a nice job, meet nice people and get a nice place.

What's stopping me?

Money, School, and reality.

Want to: Stop helping people in exchange for money and write a book on metaphysics. Helping people is alright and philosophy is a bit of a self-centered navel-gazing pursuit. But if i get the philosophy right, I could make history by helping future people feel more at home in the world and understand the world better. It's a huge gamble.

Go out with the girl I like. (I know it's corny and unoriginal)

What's stopping me is the fact that she knows I like her and she dosen't like me back.

I would like to go skiing. It is way too cold outside for skiing right now (-22 C / -8 F). Perhaps later this week when the cold snap ends.

moving out and saving money for a trip to Japan, and i've graduated so all I need now is a job so I can actually make money again.

I wish I was going to sleep but I'm not tired enough.

@MyNiceIceLife said:

moving out and saving money for a trip to Japan, and i've graduated so all I need now is a job so I can actually make money again.

Ever thought about applying for the english teaching program (JET)? That is a cheap way to spend a lot of time in Japan.

@HerbieBug said:

@MyNiceIceLife said:

moving out and saving money for a trip to Japan, and i've graduated so all I need now is a job so I can actually make money again.

Ever thought about applying for the english teaching program (JET)? That is a cheap way to spend a lot of time in Japan.

iirc you need a degree for JET and it's overpopulated as hell, not worth the hassle for just a trip.