what is next for you?
repeated answers are bold, larger if more often, and a few favorites are in italics
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[My] Students' achievement
1st grade
8th standard
A 180
A cabin in the woods
A clothing shop [called 'Next'] to continue thinking outside the box
A cross country motorcycle trip across the US
A documentary project exploring identity
A new door
A nice vacation
A period where I can realize all of my creative potential
A veterans village [for homeless vets]
About to interview for a new job, working out of a street outreach medical van
Actually more of the same, I'm retired I don't really have a plan
Adopting a child
Always pushing myself to achieve
Always tomorrow, finding healthy ways to be in balance with parenthood and being in partnership
An always changing journey, adventure
An empty nest and figuring out how to navigate that
Another baby
Another coffee, then death
Another goal
Another thing
Awareness of the Creator God
Baby
Be a ballerina
Be independent and work for myself and not be dependent on external factors
Becoming a young global leader
Becoming comfortable in my own skin finally
Being 12
Being a Mum
Being a productive member of society, returning to my family, a new beginning
Being able to tackle the world while still having a stable home/space
Being an Olympic Gold Medalist
Being more nice to myself
Business
Christmas
Climbing Kilimanjaro- which is also a metaphor to keep going for challenges and exploring and staying curious
Collaboration
College
College course[s]
College, hopefully some sort of Grad school. I want to live in New York [City] at some point and I want to get a dog
College life
College, figuring what I want to do with my life
Continuing to explore, to enjoy, and to enjoy what we have and are doing
Currently its very undefined, what I want to do next
Dance and trying to expand people's notions of what movement and dance can express. Finding new context
Daughter's job and marriage
Developing myself and making sure that my achievements will actually be worth the effort
Dinner
Do a triathlon
Do more education related work
Does anyone really know what's next?
Doing my best to take of this business I got into
Doing something brave, going back to school and my next reinvention of myself
Doing something that will make a difference to humanity and more specifically I want to do something impactful for the students I serve and for my family its to be there day in and day out
Doing something useful
Doing the disco [dance on floor]
Don't want to go next. I like where I am now. Goals and aspirations are not my scene. I can't imagine life getting better than it is right now
Eating dinner
Education
Engineering [degree]
Enrolling in school, becoming successful
Eternity, definitely
Everything
Expanding my career, more exposure in my career
Experience and maturity in all kinds of ways. Hopefully further success
Feet first out the door, continuing to cruise, resume skiing
Figuring out a new career
Figuring out how to raise a teenager
Figuring out what is next for me
Figuring out what is next for my career
Figuring out what makes me happy and sticking with it
Finding a career, not just a job but a career with a future
Finding a way to analyze culture in early learning and share it with the masses
Finding balance
Finish college
Finishing a video for a project that takes at risk youth and teaches them to do stand up comedy
Finishing high school and going to college hopefully and learning how to see new things as good again and learning how to love myself
Finishing my college math and going home
For the next four years, kind of the same. striving to get good grades. Kinda set for high school, after that I don't know. Definitely college
Freedom
From a family perspective I'm probably going to get married. From a career perspective taking on new opportunities that lead to more growth and development
Full retirement and traveling more
Fun times
Get good marks, not only me but my friends also
Get out and get back to my family
Getting a dog
Getting deported to Mexico and living with my Aunt and family. Becoming a better man
Getting married
Getting more older
Getting more stable income so I can free up my brain to do other fun stuff (maybe learning mandarin)
Getting my degree, I'm currently working towards it
Getting my graduate degree, getting dual citizenship [Luxembourg]
Getting my kids through college
Getting myself to the point where I'm my own boss and I can travel freely and not have to worry about losing my job or making money
Getting rid of the Presidents [title], being able to do my hobbies and stop solving other people's problems
Go back to building [LEGO]
Go outside
Go outside and play a little
Go places
God willing, more of the same
Going back to work
Going home
Going to 4th grade
Going to college
Going to middle school
Going to France on a river cruise with my brother his wife and my wife
Going to get out and reestablish my life
Grabbing onto my passions and letting them come to life
Growth
Happiness
Heaven knows, I really don't know
Helping my kids through school and helping them succeed
Helping things that I've nurtured launch. That's kids and projects. That’s doing its own thing in away that's unpredictable but good and right for it
High school
High school level transition, becoming more mature and older
Holding on by the skin of my teeth till things calm down
Hopefully a promotion, I want to keep growing and learning new things
Hopefully continuing to make video games
Hopefully getting an MBA, there's a lot of unknown in the next 5 years
Hopefully good things, new career path
Hopefully reestablishing myself. Getting novel published. A year from now I'd like to be settled. Starting over to a great degree
Hopefully this
Hopefully to start a career, establish myself
Hoping to get a promotion at work, hoping my potential is seen so I can move up. In the next 10 years looking at retirement and building up 401k
How do we know? Things are a surprise always. I like surprises
I always think about traveling, to find out what's going on in the world
I am not sure
I can't say anything
I don't even know, sky's the limit. I don't want to put a cap on it
I don’t have the faintest clue. This is next. We wanted to get out of an old house and into a new one. This is the next.
I don't know
I don't know but it's going to be pure adventure (if I have anything to do with it that is)
I don't know what's going to happen next for me. But literally I'm going to go to my friends house and have lunch with my Dad
I don’t know what’s next. Maybe retiring and having more time to do what you feel like doing when you want to.
I don't know, I take it one day at a time
I don't know, I think that's what's exciting. For me its always my next strip. It's so incredible to be able to do that
I don't know, my whole life is improv. Continuing on the way of improv. More of that creation
I don't know, no idea
I don't really have anything. I don't want to be part of the race/ladder others are on. I love consistency, community, more of the same. Trying to get better and grow to help others
I don't really know
I don't really plan. Well my grandchild, really- new things, everyday has something new. A bit of travel, I've retired
I don't really understand that
I don't think about it. It's too late
I grew up in Seattle and I love it but I want to try living somewhere else for a while, moving to a new city
I guess, I just want to see what happens
I have many things I want to do. Getting our yard nice
I have my friend visit and take me out, driving next Sunday, I don't have an agenda. I like driving, going to church and seeing my friends after at coffee
I have no clue. Change is next
I have no idea
I have no idea, I'm exploring my path. I'm an explorer
I hope it's having my girlfriend moving to the UK. I hope it's seeing more of my family and friends. I hope its increasing the variety of things I photograph. However ultimately I have no idea because I don't know what's coming up next
I hope many years of happiness and good health. Health is so paramount to our well being and happiness
I hope my son becomes more responsible
I hope that I'll be further along my journey to just be generally7 content, whatever that means
I just started my next stage (divorce). I started modeling last year, I want to express my sexuality and femininity which has been suppressed for a long time
I must get both my sons married, that is the utmost concern. That is next
I not know
I really don't have the foggiest
I really don't know. Anything is possible
I really don't know. I know I'm going to die but in the meantime, I really don't know
I strive to know more, learn, get information. So I can become more educated in a general sense
I think about it all the time but I don't have an answer
I want to be a good person, head of the family for kids and Grandkids
I want to be a professor in maths
I want to become a Doctor and make a house with a swimming pool. I want to give money to poor people and help them get educated
I want to construct an old age home
I want to get serious when it comes to my acting but first focus on my financial goals
I want to keep my Grandpa smiling, achieving my goals
I want to live peacefully, that is all
I want to start a company
I want to try different things that I've never tried (writing with brutal honesty about what goes on in the world from the perspective of growing up in the status quo. For people to be aware of way of growing up at a young age
I would hope growth, moving forward in the various fields I've involved myself in
I would like to write and help people make decisions in uncertainty, to create a path. To use my background in applied mathematics and history, to teach that there are biases, to convey through the lessons of history and reduce uncertainty . To show that the differences in religion are amazingly similar.
I would say continuing the work/life balance struggle
I'd like the kids to be more independent so I can have more free time
I'm going to Australia, that's my 7th continent of travels. After that I'll focus on seeing the US. Mainly National Parks I haven't seen
I'm hoping I can see my grandkids grow up and get married
I'm hoping to move to Miami actually
I'm still trying to figure it out. I still have hopes and dreams to be a successful entrepreneur
I’m very interested in my next phase, I want it to be like a canvas. I haven’t given it much thought, I want it to unfold.
Improving something in my business
Increasing activism and staying fit
Incremental steps towards awakening
Inner peace
It's retirement really
Just continuity, life
Just more growth
Just want to live without giving anyone trouble
Keep doing what I'm doing
Keep doing what I'm doing. To get a new day job
Learning about myself
Leaving here and being a productive member of society, working on my career
Leaving this country (US) again
Life
Literally- moving from a rental to a house. Developing my life with the people I love.
Living in Hawaii and having my own yoga studio
Living my life to the fullest
Living with a panda and eating candy
London
Lots of different things, wherever life throws at me really
Lots of things, I want to do some kind of social service, I don't know what but I want to do something to make myself useful to others
Lunchtime
Making my life slower, focusing on what matters
Marriage of my children
Middle School
Monday
More education
More exploring
More learning
More music
More music, I'm actually not sure what's next
More of the same until retirement. I'm not looking for a change anymore
More of the same. I've reached a stage where I want to do more of what we've been doing and hoping we stay healthy. Smooth sailing for a while
More travel
More traveling
Most importantly getting my son married
Moving out of the country (US)
Moving somewhere new
My ambition. Giving physically challenged people vocational training. I've made steps but want to achieve more
My birthday
My daughter
My empire
My future, my ambition and my goals. I want to achieve my goals
My goal is to become a police officer
My goal is to save the world
My grandchildren, I love them all
My house song
My left foot
My life has changed a lot in the last few years. What's next is more work and hopefully more money, more of what I'm doing
My wife
My wife and I do a lot of traveling, we just back from a cruise to Hawaii, went to Australia and New Zealand before that and for the next one we are thinking of Norway, my wife grew up there
My work continuing at the school, developing the school
New adventure, new discovery
New puzzle, new challenge, something that gives me growth
New York fashion week and hopefully Howard University
Next is bringing my sister to live with me
No plan
Not taking things so seriously
Nothing
One day at a time
Open yourself to listen to anyone
Opening another business probably
Opening restaurant number two
Parenting teens
Peace
Physically being better and self improvement, it’s my turn
Planning a trip
Planning to go for a PhD. Hopefully in the next month
Planning what I'll do when I'm released and how I'll transition back to society, school, get a career
Play and build
Play with my friends
Playing sports
Positive change
Praying
Probably a cruise to Hawaii
Probably baseball
Probably high school, college
Probably some baseball tournaments
Publishing my book
Putting the kids to bed
Quite literally Mexico, in general more travel
Really being authentically myself, not what other people think is life
Really no telling but what I'd like to see next is creating a family of my own
Reconstruction surgery from mastectomy
Release and education
Retirement
Retirement eventually
Returning to our second home is very tangible, and not knowing what awaits us
Right now I have small kids, the next stage is them getting older and independent. Next is where I have more time for myself
Right now very uncertain, I don't know. Hoping to get back health and energy.
Right now, school
School
Seeing my grands graduate high school, college, the more the better
Self induced freedom
Setting goals and deadlines and making the things I want a reality
Settling down with all that entails
Settling down, where I am right now and becoming a bigger part of the community where I am. Making a difference
Settling in well
Settling my children
Seventh grade
Short term: Enjoying time at home, Long term: One day running a fishing boat
Showing my family that I can stay out of prison
Simplicity
So many things- in the future some goals- graduation, open a jiu jitsu school and lunch pretty soon
Stability
Success first and happiness
Success, hopefully
Successful business adventure
That's a good question, I'm not sure, lots of things are happening
That's a good question. I don't really know what's next
That's an uncertainty, it's a good question. But it's not stressful. Stuff will happen, it will be OK. What's next is not a burden
That's the great mystery
The end is near [laugh] and it doesn't bother me a bit. It might be 1, 2, 3, 4 years, I don't know
The immediate thing that came to mind is Death. I don't know and I'm looking forward to finding out
The next question
The possibilities keep opening up with each year
The unknown
The zoo
To achieve something
To achieve my dream, IFS (Indian Foreign Service)
To be a soccer player on the USA women's team
To be as much of an artist as I can be aside from college. Find non-conformist expression in nude art and paint abstract art
To be good in the future
To become a chartered accountant
To become a civil service person
To become a great doctor
To continue growing
To continue to broaden my horizons, travel more and read more
To do right by my kids when I leave here
To eat my fig bar
To get out and pursue my dreams and investing 100% into me instead of everybody else
To go back and gets some fucking sleep
To have a good job
To keep focused and remain positive, hope to make it out of prison
To keep on doing as much as I can while I can. I think of it mainly in terms of travel
To leave Seattle
To let myself be proud
To live every day to the fullest, I feel blessed
To prove I'm not the person they thought I was and that I can change things around
To see my children settle down and get on with their life. And ensure they're happy and aim for what they want to aim for
To start a new chapter in my life
Today starting piano lessons. Maybe next adding to the saturated Austin market and releasing an album
Tomorrow
Travel
Travel, I hope to go around the world in February
Traveling
Traveling, I want to go everywhere
Trying to balance philosophical health and love and being in love
Trying to get through and become 80
Trying to stay healthy, I want to live to be 90. Get rid of aches and pains
Trying to survive
Turning 8
Vacations and more fun
Warm weather and a possible move
We'd like to have our own home
Well babysitting, I’m going to help raise my granddaughter. Hopefully volunteering and traveling
What can we do next?
Whatever's coming after what we're doing
When I get older, and get to middle school, get a girlfriend, get married, become a video game designer and make LEGO sets for others to enjoy
When I leave here- reuniting with my family and trying to right some wrongs and make a difference
Who knows, who knows who knows what might happen tomorrow
Working on myself, making myself better. It's a lifelong process