My Midyear Resolution
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Lately, I haven't had time to do one of my favorite pastimes, which is of course, blogging. With my so hectic schedule, what I do in my free time is to snooze. My visit in the gym is probly limited to twice in a week, and I can't even spend an entire hour just to catch up on other things I've yet to work on. Anyway, I have not given up the habit of reading emails from people. At least, this is my way to get tracked of the things in my personal life. I also enjoy reading about the lives of my friends. I know they are as busy as I am, but I appreciate their little musings over their everyday pleasures and frustrations. I dunno, one year after graduation, I feel like I've had so much of the turbulent times. I graduated, got a job, lost my job, went job hunting, battled over self-worth issues, got a new job, and over the past so and so months, been really adjusting to the new work environment. I had not imagined myself staying in the office for at least 13 hours in a day, but look at what I have been doing for the past month-I'd get out of the office building past midnight. The worst thing's to wake up again in the morning around 5 to beat the early morning traffic. My colleagues in Japan and Korea start their day at work by 8am, so I had to be in the office by 7 if there is a scheduled telecon. Last Thursday night, I printed out this 12-page reconciliation report, and I had to reprint it again, because the text were so small, I'd need a lens to identify them. Font Arial, size 10, all in all, the report totalled 18 pages. 95% numbers-TOXIC shall describe it!
I know there's more to come, thus, I am not limiting my expectations. However, I live by the moment. My goal is to produce outstanding results. This thought hit me when I boarded off the MRT last Friday morning. I'm fed up of producing mediocre results. I guess this is the kind of habit Ive developed in college. I knew I was good with a lot of things-call me multitalented or mulitfaceted, but there was not one field that I've set high performance standards in. I guess I'd need to realize that there's not one person who's excellent at everything; that I need to streamline my activities if I want to excel; that I need to develop the art of saying "no..."; and that Ralph Waldo Emerson had a clear point of saying "...a shoemaker makes a good shoe because he makes nothing else..." This is it! My midyear resolution...
I know there's more to come, thus, I am not limiting my expectations. However, I live by the moment. My goal is to produce outstanding results. This thought hit me when I boarded off the MRT last Friday morning. I'm fed up of producing mediocre results. I guess this is the kind of habit Ive developed in college. I knew I was good with a lot of things-call me multitalented or mulitfaceted, but there was not one field that I've set high performance standards in. I guess I'd need to realize that there's not one person who's excellent at everything; that I need to streamline my activities if I want to excel; that I need to develop the art of saying "no..."; and that Ralph Waldo Emerson had a clear point of saying "...a shoemaker makes a good shoe because he makes nothing else..." This is it! My midyear resolution...
