I have gathered a list of 10 main activities that I will follow closely for year 2009. Hope I will make 2009 a Meaningful, Fruitful and Successful year.
1. Stay focus and work towards the only Goal I have set for 2009.
2. Exercise at least twice a week. (jogging, swimming and playing soccer ... what else.)
3. Learn more about personal development and apply the knowledge.
4. Spend more quality time with my family. (I mean really quality time and not watching TV programmes with them... but I must admit that I have "wasted" a lot of time watching Little Nyonya [小娘惹] with them.)
5. Expand circle of friends. (It's always good to make more friends than enemies right?)
6. Engage in activities that are productive and of good value.
7. Be early.
8. Drink more water and green tea.
9. Eat more vegetables.
10. Pray.
Have you plan anything for 2009?
I have been setting goals, goals and more goals for the past few years. At the beginning of each year, I would get very happy, very excited and very enthusiastic with the goals that I have set.
However, when Christmas comes and I looked back… it is always: “WHERE DID THE MAJORITY OF THE YEAR GONE TO?”
Maybe I have set goals that I don’t really care about or maybe I have set too many goals or maybe... and maybe… maybe... you know.. maybe…
After much reflection, I have decided to do something different in 2009. I will just set 1 goal and keep my focus on it until I have achieved it.
1 goal is clarity. 10 goals is confusion. Do you think it's a good idea?
So what are your Goals for 2009?
- Give them cardboard boxes and they can have fun for hours.
- Take an old pair of white socks, draw eyes, nose, mouth and put on a show.
- Bring them to the pool.
- Create a slide show with their photos and show it to them.
- Play house with them.
- Read story books to them.
- Eat ice cream with them.
- Bake cookies with them.
- Take them out to learn and appreciate nature.
- Each day, set a bonding time with them, even just being together - cuddling, hugging, laughing.
- Do arts and crafts with them
- Tell them action stories.
However, I begin to realise that I better spend more time with her as she is only small for so long.
So, do you have any more ideas to add to the list?
My Baby Vanessa has started watching "Your Baby Can Read" VCDs for about 2 months. This program aims to encourage babies to participate by saying the words and by doing physical actions that help them learn the meanings of the words.
Vanessa is always excited and happy whenever the VCD is being played. The program consists of 5 VCDs with recommended viewing periods. I can see that she is enjoying the program and best of all, she is kept "entertained" for a good 30 minutes.
She has yet to say a word reflected on the program, however, she is responding to the sing-a-long segment in the program.
Looking forward to the day that she will point to her nose when the word "Nose" appears on the screen.
I have been trying to improve my productivity and become more organized for a long time. However, I realized that I have spent too much time organizing, planning and managing my productivity, it actually become less efficient. My productivity meter yields a loss instead of a gain.
Recently, I found a good and old way of managing my productivity. While attending an exhibition in Singapore Expo, I was given a free pocket-size paper notebook. Not knowing what to do with such an old school stuff, I just left it on my computer table.
As I was thinking how to solve my low productivity problem, I realized that a pocket-sized notebook is one productivity tool that I really need.
Whenever I get or think of a new task, I would write it down in my notebook, along with the deadline. When I completed a task, I would cross it off. I wrote down every task in the order it was received. I didn't do any reordering or prioritizing of this list. When a page from the notebook was all crossed off on both sides, I ripped it out and threw it in the trash.
Typically, I scan through the current list of tasks in my notebook and considered each task's difficulty, duration, and deadline as well as my energy level. Then I made a snap decision and just picked one that seemed to be a reasonable choice. Then I started working on that task immediately, sticking with it until it was 100% complete.
Since the tasks were recorded in the order they were received, the oldest tasks were in front of my notebook. If I had a really old task, it would often be the only item left on a page with everything else on that page already crossed off. This gave me a little extra motivation and pressure to complete it and rip it off.
If a task on my list got too old and I hadn't done anything with it, I might decide not to do it at all, so I could remove the page and throw it into the trash bin. Alternatively, I might decide it was still worth doing but at a later date, I would copy it to the back of the list and give it a chance for another cycle.
But if a task was on the list for a couple of months and hadn't been touched, it probably just wasn't important enough that I was ever going to do it.
I have learned a new meaning to this word FAMILY from a Catholic Priest of my Church.
F - Father, refers to the Almightly Lord our God.
A - And
M - Mother, refers to our spiritual Mother Mary.
I - I
L - Love
Y - You
Without Lord our Father, FAMILY will be incomplete and becomes,
A - After
M - Marriage
I - I
L - Leave
Y - You
Have a joyful Sunday.
