Goodbye 2007.
January 1st, 2008 | by john |Farewell, 2007. It was a good and honorable year. I hope everyone had a spectacular year as well in 2007. I am very much excited about 2008 although I don’t really know why. There were a lot of resolutions (and expectations) I made a year ago that I have yet to fulfill. Shamefully, I would have to admit that 90% of it was purely because I was being lazy and have not correctly prioritize everything that I wanted to accomplish. Briefly reflecting upon my previous year’s goals, it seems to me that there are three major reasons why I can’t seem to complete some of my goals:
- Not making myself accountable
- Too many segregated goals (ie. Seven Projects)
- Lack of continuity
The first two reasons are pretty much self-explanatory. I’ll need to figure out a way to make myself accountable to failing to work on some of my goals somehow but the problem is that since these are personal goals, there are no negative consequences except for maybe personal shame. I could use some ideas on this one. Second reason is that maybe I put too many things on my plate and that just overwhelms me to the point where I don’t want to work on any of it. One way I can think to fix this is to prioritize my goals carefully and work on them bottom-up. The third reason may need some more elaboration. I currently have what I consider to be a good full-time job that I consider to be rewarding in a multitude of ways and also necessary. I also have a great hobby in photography that I delve into as much as possible but not really necessary but very fun and interesting. My goals are in between these two things and I consider it rather difficult to “shift gears” between each and keep the continuity of the things I am working on.
So my initial thoughts are NOT make the same mistake I did just last year by listing out all the things I want to work on but to just keep it simple and work on goals one at a time so that at the end of 2008, I can write a totally different type of blog post that will reflect back upon things that I was able to complete instead of focusing on the things that I wasn’t.
There, I am very much looking forward to 2008.
