2009 almost comes to the end. I still can’t believe that time is flying that fast. Want it or not, 2010 is just two days ahead. Going back to the yearly plan I set on the January 1st 2009 and reflect how well my plan works, it scares me. I remember; I was laying on the floor, drawing my 2009 planning sheet together with my sibling and parents, this moment was like yesterday. Today is December 30th 2009 already. Why am I talking about this?
This is to scare you too. Time is flying really fast each day. Each minute gone and never ever return; therefore, making plan is truly important. You can’t just live your life according to anything. You need to be time master, and lead your life throughout time that passing by to achieve what you set. “Plan our future today” was the topic of the 2nd youth camp I organized in 2008.
If you are working in a project, you of course know what the important elements of a successful project are. I started working in 2004. That was when I know how the project was coordinated. Once, I attended a project planning meeting to apply for funding. I was trained to make vision, mission, activities planning, expected result and so on. One day I sat by myself thinking why don’t I apply what I have learned in the project planning in my life too. Vision, mission, activity planning, expected result are what a project coordinator prepare to get funding from donor. What about life? Then, I start making those stuffs in my life too. I plan my life on daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly base. Learning from my manager, I draw my life in a one page mind map.
All in all, I do encourage you to spend sometime making plan for the upcoming 2010. Having a clear plan is good, but don’t forget to follow up your plan and reflect on it.
If you have already done your plan, I do really appreciate if you could share how did you make it? Each person has different ways of making life plan, it would be good to learn from each other.
Happy New Year 2010 !
Happy New Year!
ReplyDeleteFor me, it started out with a simple statement a couple years ago: I simply want to improve my life. But what is my life? After a bit of thought, I realized that I can classify everything into 3 fundamental categories: career, family and personal. Since then, each year starts with the same question: how can I improve those 3 aspects of my life?
There seems to be a problem with this approach. Last year, I realized that systematically planning my life does not make me happier, even though every aspect of my life has improved beyond expectation as a result of it. I feel that something is missing and I don't know what it is. Maybe I've tried too hard. Maybe I'm too comfortable. I really wish I know what it is.
I'm curious how well you did for your 2009 planning.
Dear Meng
ReplyDeleteI apology for being silent for too long. The internet at my office was stupid for sometime. It couldn't allow me to get into my blog.
You have such a clear planning and categories of life which is really very good. It is another way of planning of life. I classified mind into too small detail. That's include family, works(main work and volunteer work), relationship, appearance, free time, and more. Of course, no plan would work 100%. There were some of these plan went well and some didn't went so well. I generally think that I did good for 2009 and now feeling that my first month of 2010 is starting in the right track. :-)And weakest point of my 2009 was financial planning and management.
I asked myself a bit different from you. I asked "how can I use the best potential of me of myself, my family, my teams, and my country?" Time is something I care the most. I just don't want to waste any minutes of it.
I hope you have a good start of 2010.
Nana
Dear Meng
ReplyDeleteI apology for being silent for too long. The internet at my office was stupid for sometime. It couldn't allow me to get into my blog.
You have such a clear planning and categories of life which is really very good. It is another way of planning of life. I classified mind into too small detail. That's include family, works(main work and volunteer work), relationship, appearance, free time, and more. Of course, no plan would work 100%. There were some of these plan went well and some didn't went so well. I generally think that I did good for 2009 and now feeling that my first month of 2010 is starting in the right track. :-)And weakest point of my 2009 was financial planning and management.
I asked myself a bit different from you. I asked "how can I use the best potential of me of myself, my family, my teams, and my country?" Time is something I care the most. I just don't want to waste any minutes of it.
I hope you have a good start of 2010.
Nana
Dear Meng
ReplyDeleteI apology for being silent for too long. The internet at my office was stupid for sometime. It couldn't allow me to get into my blog.
You have such a clear planning and categories of life which is really very good. It is another way of planning of life. I classified mind into too small detail. That's include family, works(main work and volunteer work), relationship, appearance, free time, and more. Of course, no plan would work 100%. There were some of these plan went well and some didn't went so well. I generally think that I did good for 2009 and now feeling that my first month of 2010 is starting in the right track. :-)And weakest point of my 2009 was financial planning and management.
I asked myself a bit different from you. I asked "how can I use the best potential of me of myself, my family, my teams, and my country?" Time is something I care the most. I just don't want to waste any minutes of it.
I hope you have a good start of 2010.
Nana
You seem to have everything covered in your plan. What interesting is that we seem to have different goals. Yours are more well defined and focus. Mine are too generic and most of the time unattainable.
ReplyDeleteIn short, yours are much better :-)