Making A List And Checking It Twice

First Monday of the year. Make that first WORKING day of the year. It's me and the whole team. I know, I know, we're supposed to be really busy, what with the new year having just entered: meaning, the 2006 Training Calendar would have to be finalized (or at the very least, updated)...as well as the other preparations for the upcoming big launching of a program called WOW Your World, and a couple others like Corporate Identity Cascading, Revisiting Our Values make-up workshop(s), and some new employee orientation on the side.

But with the post-Yuletide sloth still in the air, I couldn't help but be a great deal work-shy...at least today. I promise to work REALLY hard tomorrow. Cross my heart. (Nuninuninu...)

It's a New Year's tradition to be making a list of Resolutions. Y'know, those things that we promise to do or not to do in order to make ourselves better, new and improved, or simply different. It is almost always a futile attempt to change, since most (if not all) of these resolutions end up being given the sack way before they are even "rolled out". Kinda like a project that gets shelved due to lack of funds...or in the case of resolutions, lack of commitment.

So, let's see which ones of mine I will blue-pencil this year. Heh..heh...

1. Be more focused on my work. (I promise to start tomorrow. Really!)
2. Be more resolute in decisions, no matter how big or small the scale.
3. Spend more time with my family.
4. Read more (No, not Narnia or Harry Potter, you idiot. Those management or self-help books!)
5. Sleep earlier...than 12midnight!
6. Be more patient and forgiving.
7. Lessen impulse buying.
8. Save money in the bank!
9. Be more health-conscious (For Chrissakes, stop eating cups and cups of rice!)
10. Be more contented with what comes my way (or what I already have).
11. Regularly hear mass.
12. Clean up--squeaky clean--the house.
13. Write more. Start by finishing my fiction novel that I started in 2001.
14. Come to work earlier!!! (God, I'm so delinquent!)
15. Enroll in voice lessons or violin lessons.
16. Continue French self-lessons.
17. Be more modest.
18. Go back to being O.C. (Hehehehehehe)
19. Love. Love. Love.
20. Think less of my "misfortunes" and more of the blessings.

There. Keeping my fingers (and legs and eyes) crossed, till the last few minutes of 2006 are over.

Perhaps I should have this notarized...?