It's getting to be that time of year when people start to set goals.
I don't really establish first-of-the-year goals. Maybe I should. But if I want to be or do better in something, I either just try to get better at it each day or think about it and then do nothing. I don't make lists and graphs or set a point in the distance and say "I want to do/be better THEN."
Because I just don't need the disappointment when THEN finally comes around. And I don't want any previously written down goals haunting me THEN either.
So, New Year's Day goals? No. I'm not doing it.
I don't even do it for pointless things that won't cause me future pain, like card collecting.
Card collecting is a free-wheeling and breezy hobby for me. Yeah, I have sets I'm working on that I put ahead of other sets. But getting it done BY A CERTAIN POINT AND BEFORE OTHER SETS? I don't do that. Because there will always be a time when something else captures my fancy.
For example, on last year's New Year's Eve post, I sort of established a card-collecting "plan." I listed sets "I want to complete in 2013." It was a "gee wouldn't this be nice thing," not really a goal.
The sets I listed were: 2012 Allen & Ginter, 1977 Topps, 2001 Upper Deck '70s Decade and 1972 Topps.
I actually completed two of those, the first two. I made a fairly good dent in '72 Topps, too, but have a long way to go. And I failed miserably on 2001 Upper Deck '70s.
Then there were two sets that I didn't list in there where I did very well.
The '75 minis set is coming along nicely -- so nicely that it's possible I could finish it next year, if that's what I want, that is.
And the 1979 Topps -- not even a thought in my head at the end of 2012 -- is three cards away from completion.
I recently received four key '79s from Chuck that got me to that final trio.
Thurman.
Charlie Hustle.
The Ryan Express.
And a card that doesn't really fit in with the other three, but features the most freakishly unnaturally green grass ever.
Those are some heavy hitters right there, and thanks to Chuck, I need just the following three cards, which are not heavy hitters at all.
Two Angels and a brand new Hall of Famer.
Those are cards Nos. 48, 71 and 82, by the way. Apparently, 1979 Topps had difficult-to-obtain "low numbers" that no one has ever mentioned.
I would hope that someone has these three cards lying around and maybe I can get this set finished before the calendar turns to January.
But, really, no rush.
I'm not setting any goals here.
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