If you’re working during this period, good! You’re one of the lucky ones with a job. I too still have a job, which has been keeping me quite busy these days with all the gloomy restructuring / retrenchment news. However, i’m finally taking a break – 10 days in a stretch. Woohoo!
So far, i’ve been catching up on my reading (books, blogs, facebook etc), deciding on what to read next (Three Cups of Tea, The Logic of Life, Adrian Mole and the Weapons of Mass Destruction are on the list so far), reorganising my internet bookmarks (there are just too many dead sites, and too many sites i will never ever go to…), optimising my laptop (it’s been getting sluggish with too many applications), optimising my iPhone (yes, i succumbed to temptation, but more about that in this post), and deciding on the big question, as always, what on earth am I suppose to do or be in this lifetime?
As I ponder about the big question, I’m still adding lots of to-dos on my holiday to-do list. These are one of those seemingly urgent but unimportant things, which will make you feel that you’ve done a lot but accomplished nothing, which seems to be the theme of my 2008 so far.
So, over this holiday period, i’ve decided to think about some concrete goals that I want to achieve over the next year. I’m not one for new year resolutions because I’ve never made them work. There are either too many goals, or I didn’t keep track of it. I don’t sign up for gym memberships at the start of the year, because I don’t like gym. Things I do like, like writing and Tai Chi, are not financially burdensome, but difficult to keep a consistent rhythm to do it regularly. I’ve read somewhere that even consistent marathon runners find it difficult to step out in the morning for their training, but once they manage to take that first step out of the door, everything flows.
My first step now will be to think through what has worked and what hasn’t, and to decide on just one (or at most 2) goals to be achieved over 2009. I will be posting this on new year’s eve so that I set a deadline for myself.
What is your first step towards a more fulfilling 2009? With that, I wish you a very merry holiday season!
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