This might be post-new year’s syndrome, listening to Armin van Buuren on a New Year’s morning. Oh well..
Onwards to 2016
While many were readying to party the night away yesterday, I couldn’t help to only think of what do I aim to accomplish in the next year, as its hours counted down.
Looking back at this neglected online space which I call ‘my personal blog’ in 2015, its obvious highlight was my first trip to Korea.
Outside of this space…
- Managed to finish reading:
- Mojo: How to Get It, How to Keep It, How to Get It Back If You Lose It
(Marshall Goldsmith) - Blogging for a living (Grace Tan)
- Getting to yes: Negotiating agreement without giving in (Roger Fisher, William L. Ury, Bruce Patton)
- 21 irrefutable laws of leadership (John C. Maxwell)
- Today matters (John C. Maxwell)
- Mojo: How to Get It, How to Keep It, How to Get It Back If You Lose It
- Exhausted my thoughts with work
- Celebrated friends’ weddings
- Designed a cat cafe logo
- Became a ‘heng tai’ for the first time
- Partied at a notable blogger’s anniversary
- Purchased my very own badminton racquet
- Added 5 new Nendoroid to my collection
And I guess that’s it. Not too bad, right.
Goals of 2016
This year, I do hope and want to:
- Read 1 book a month (max. within 2 months – I’m a slow reader)
- Take 10 minutes before work to clear my mind with meditation (self-experiment)
- Write playfully with a brush pen (inspired by calligraphy I’ve seen on Instagram)
- Remind myself of my goals every night and take steps to fulfill them
- Note down what am I truly grateful towards
A simple list, while my big-but-attainable dream this year would be to take a sabbatical and find myself again.
There used to be so much joy and satisfaction from what I did in my career and life, but something changed and it feels like I lost that something. I want to give myself, time alone, with my thoughts, an absence from the present to realize what was that something and what I have to do to keep it with me, for as long I live.