Day 68 - Welcome 2010

A New Year usually signifies a new beginning for a lot of us. Have you ever wondered why? What is it in 1st Jan of a new year that we seem to heave a sigh of relief and start looking ahead to new beginnings? After all its just another day!

But at the root level psychologically we think of this date as a new start. It gives an opportunity to forget all the bad things that happened to us over the past 365 days and look ahead to the next 365 ones. It gives us a chance to correct some wrongs, get over some weaknesses, renew some relationships, forge some new ones and look forward with hope. That's the key word - HOPE! For at the end of the day we do live each day on the hope that it will be better than the previous one. Even if the last one was good for us, we hope that the next day will be better. Our lives are controlled by the Gregorian calendar and we look forward to each day, to the weekends of rest and rejuvenation, to the ends of the months and the paychecks. We have been programmed over the last many years to focus on each day as it leads into a week, a month and finally a year. And therin lies the importance of 1st Jan of any year.

As we complete a year we re-live all the good and bad things that happened and we HOPE that the next 365 days will be better. We make new promises to ourselves and to our loved ones. We start new things and new projects. We make new resolutions and dream new dreams! It is a day of hope and the beginning of new journey.

With that in mind, I too have decided to pen down some resolutions and goals for 2010. It'll be fun to re-visit them at the end of year and see what I was able to accomplish. So here goes:

• Continue to exercise and remain fit. Do not gain weight.
• Be more patient and keep an open mind.
• Be a good friend - supportive, non-intrusive, helpful when needed.
• Be a good father - helping, inculcating values by practice rather than preaching, giving proper direction, expanding their minds with experience rather than rote, not being too assertive, listening.
• Be a good husband - listening, loving, supportive, participating and patient.
• Be a good son and brother.
  
• Get better at my job or Get a better job.
• Read more books and catch up on new ideas.
• Try to do a good executive management program. Get more relevant education.
  
• Keep blogging.
• Get a tattoo.
• Learn to play Golf. Get coaching.
• Have more holidays.
• Don't take life too seriously. Have fun!

Quite a few of them are generic and open-ended. But I guess I've never been the one to set specific goals. I usually take each day as it comes and try to live that day to the best of my abilities.

So let's start on this journey of 2010 and see where it takes us! Carpe Diem!