Hello New Year. I am not usually one for New Year’s resolutions. I can remember every year my dad leaving a piece of paper titled ‘New Years Resolutions’ encouraging me to pen my thoughts to paper. I would always take it sarcastically and write down some goals that were my pre-teen sass coming through.
This year was different. I had recently undergone so many different conversations about career futures with people. I am also in the middle of what feels like a group shift of jobs. So many people seem to be moving on and it left me wondering if I am on the right path.
Well, I decided to myself a while ago that I would not focus on career growth, but focus on things outside of career growth (like personal growth, spiritual growth, etc.). Inside, I can tell that this is the right decision. Regardless of the constant back and forth I do in my mind.
So if I am not focusing on career goals then I shall turn my eyes towards other goals. It is a great thing that it’s the New Year. Perfect timing.
Taking my dad’s ideas in hand, I sat down with Caitlyn to write out my goals. For my personal goals, I want to walk for 30 minutes a day, drink more water, help plan a family vacation, keep up with my blog posts, and start compiling a family photo album.
The family goals that Caitlyn and I decided on are, take a vacation in 2021, find time for a proper date night at least every other week, create a budget so I can create a savings account for a future child and still be able to pay off a car payment this year. Last but not least, I want to divide up the house and focus on keeping things organized. I have never been one for the organization, but I am tired of my house feeling like my high school bedroom. It’s time to take care of putting things away and keeping the house tidy.
Aside from all of those, I am also starting a Certificate program at Harvard soon – I really have to figure out what day that starts. Even though I am not pushing myself too hard at work, I am looking to put into practice the communication skills I have acquired from my last Harvard class. I had some interesting thoughts about communication today that could probably be elaborated into another blog post, but I digress.
I am not stressed about keeping to everything. I feel inside of me that I will keep to the important things, and the not important things will fall away. I am not sure why I feel that way, it’s some sort of knowing that I can’t quite explain…
