Happy New Year. (wow, where have I been? you might asked..)
Not much really. Just doing more or less the same but starting to figure out what I want for this year.
I've been reading some useful books, thanks to my colleagues at Digisoft. I've read Bo Sanchez's books as well as Alex Lacson's and a few software books and a romantic book from Joshua Harris.
As a result, I've been led to a long term goal of being healthy, happy, wealthy and wise. Easy to say and not so simple to achieve.
How healthy is my goal? What am I willing to give and to sacrifice for it? Am I prepared for a full year of physical training? Will this goal materialize or will it be archived to my long list of goals that were never achieved?
What is my definition of happiness? Better yet, what makes me happy? What do I need to have and to feel to be really happy? What do I need to do to be happy?
Wealthy.. What for? And if the answer leads me to happiness or in some ways help me to be happy, the next logical question is How?
Lastly, wisdom. Can it be gained? Is it a need? Is it enough to stay at my level of knowledge? How can I be wise? How do I learn more? What is my motivation to become wiser?
These sets of questions made me think of a lot of things about how I want my life to be lived. The new year has just began. I have answered my own set of questions. One person, Doctor Sjuggerud gave an advice on how to achieve anything for the new year. Write simple and significant goals and have someone know what your written goals are. At the end of the year, you and that responsible someone will go through your goals list, either to celebrate together the product of a year's hard work or to analyze together what went wrong.
Having simple goals is one of the keys of making new year's goals and resolutions achievable. Simple goals are easy to realize and knowing that they can be achieved keep you focused on realizing such goals.
Goals have to be significant. Goals vary from one person to another, and personal reasons greatly dictates why such goals are desired. In any case, our goals must have a positive effect on how we want to direct and live our lives and of those people we love. Goals can be as simple as kissing our parents every morning and showing respect to them. And this simple little thing of love and respect can lead to better family relationships and a better and happier feeling at home.
We must write our goals. This little effort of writing makes us think deeper and committed to our goals. Having them written will remind us of the goals that we have set to achieve for the year. It is also recommended to write why we want to achieve our goals (their significance). This way, when we reach the point where we might want to give up, we can be reminded of why we wanted to achieve our goals.
Lastly, we must have at least one person who knows what we want to achieve. I can say that I have written 5 goals for this year and say at the end of the year that YES, I have achieved my goals. I am responsible for myself. It may work, but it is a lot better to have someone to check our list of goals.
It works both ways. We have someone responsible to check on us and in return we are responsible to that someone to commit to our goals and achieve them. There are times that we may want to give up on ourselves, but knowing that we have bothered someone to check on us, we may think twice on giving up and not waste our efforts and that someone's efforts as well.
Healthy, happy, wealthy and wise. My goals are set and 2008 has just began.
I wish to tell you my own set of goals next time.
Happy New Year.
