In pokemon collecting my goals are to get some more sealed booster boxes. Hopefully a base unlimited box and a delta species box. If I can manage those two, another ex series box would be cool too. 3 is pushing it really far though!
And secondly to get a bunch more reverse holos from legendary collection through the end of the EX series!
Donations of either of the above are accepted and appreciated by the way. No pressure. Just saying.
Pokémon goals: By the end of 2020 I’d like to have the entire PCG-P set completed and maybe move on to DPt-P. Obviously Pichu is my main focus as always, but I’m at a point with my Pichu collection now that cards are starting to get very difficult to track down - and the ones that are easy to track down I’m ignoring unless I can almost guarantee a PSA 10.
Life goals: Get a golden retriever and get married (…to my girlfriend, not the dog).
Since I’m currently in the middle of a bad patch and it is therefore all I can think about, my buzz-kill answer would be to improve at managing my depression, I mean, that isn’t going to happen but I can at least pretend it’s a possibility while I write this
I struggle a lot with this, too. Gary is 100% right, don’t give up and remember that you are never alone in how you feel, reach out to someone for support when you need it.
Pokemon wise, I want to finish my PSA 9 1st Ed. Base set (minus holos), and my Vending Series Binder. A big fish goal for myself would be obtaining a PSA 10 English Gold Star Mew.
For Pokémon, I’d love to finish off all the English Base Sets. I’m just missing one shadowless card and a few 4th prints. Otherwise I’m 75% finished with English set cards and I’d love to hit 90% by the end of next year.
For money, I want to lay some groundwork for three new sources of income. I haven’t figured out what all I’d like to do, and my goal isn’t to collect from them during 2020, but I’d like to have more things established.
For myself, I did some physical therapy earlier this year for my shoulders and couldn’t work out, so I’m working on getting back into shape. I have some strength and physique goals I’d like to hit next year!
For some reason I can’t seem to find my old goals posts, but I did pretty well on my 2019 goals even if I didn’t post them publicly.
My largest goal was to finish off my PSA 10 Japanese set-based ex collection (2003-2007) which I completed. This was a long-term goal which took several years of work and required me to obtain 97 unique PSA 10 cards. I’ve also continued to buy cards I like from the BW-SM era here and there. I like that the turnover rate in my collection (i.e. cards I buy and then sell within a relatively short period of time) is decreasing. I think this means I’m getting more focused on what I like to collect.
My 2020 goals have somewhat already been started. After finishing the Japanese ex series, I wanted to get some of my favorite PSA 10 English ex series cards, which I’ve been successful in so far. I’m really not sure if I want to pursue a full set of these, which would be a massive undertaking and very expensive for me. My goal in 2020 would be to continue to buy my favorite English cards, and decide if I want to pursue the full set. Lv. X cards are also really growing on me as they were also around when I was a kid. I might grab a couple of those and see if they speak to me. I think 2020 will be much more of an exploratory year as for the first time in awhile I don’t have a defined goal to work towards.
Personally, my goals are mostly related to school. I’m currently in a masters program that usually takes two years to complete, but I’m aiming to do it in one. It’s a ton of work so I’m hoping to come out relatively unscathed. I’m also hoping to get into a PhD program for next fall.