It's a New Year, and resolutions are again more popular than anything else (maybe even trending on Twitter!). I am guilty of having made plenty of resolutions in the past Januarys of my life, and I'm not even sure if I was able to stick to them at all.
This is the first week of the year 2011, and so far, I have not committed or resolved to do anything drastic. I want to go on a diet and get thinner and more fit, yes. I want to earn more while still being able to stay at home with my little girl, yes.
Oh and yes, I want to give myself a pretty decent makeover.
There are so many things I want to change and improve on.
But this year, I resolve to make COMMITMENTS out of my resolutions. Not just make them a ceremonial right for another year.
And you see, commitments are not that easy to make, if you really plan to make good on your promises.
Wouldn't it be embarrassing to break a promise you made to yourself? I wouldn't want to have to go through that shameful situation, so I'd take it one step at a time.
TODAY'S RESOLUTION:
TO WORK HARDER.
ACTION PLAN: Take on a couple more online jobs, and manage my time properly.
I realized that ever since I started working from home, I've basically been cruising on work. I used to juggle an offline writing job and an online gig, but had cut down on workload...for well, I don't remember the reason anymore. I guess I was starting to get lazy.
And our family has needs, home mortgage, utility bills, gas expenses, Keisha... Don't get me started on the exhaustive list of stuff we have to figure into our budget. :) It's going to give me a migraine to last for a week.
I know I can take on more work, now that Emmie's with us (Emmie's our netbook). So at the start of the year, I took on a part-time writing project, which I hope would flourish. :) And since it's a part-time stint, I plan to take on another one.
Oh I know, this would take time away from my family. But since I am so blessed to be able to do work at home, I would work harder on managing my time as well.
Nothing is impossible for people who are determined to make it work. :)
What's YOUR resolution for today? :)
Wednesday, January 5, 2011
Monday, December 20, 2010
Today, I promise to follow through.
Here's one word I would love to hate: PROCRASTINATE.
But somehow, this word finds it's way into my life every single day. It's almost like a ghost, haunting me like crazy, filling even my days with thoughts that make me delay working on what I should be working on.
I realized I can be really creative when I'm not in the mood to work, I can think of and feel so many reasons not to. Say for example... today. Monday is really my 'rest day'. After a grueling week that passed, I had made it part of my habit to devote some 'me' and family time during Mondays. Today, I think I was able to stick to that habit. I was able to check and update the layout of my existing blog, and hey, I was able to come up with this new blog. So cheers for me!
Well no. Not really.
I made Monday an extension of my weekend, allowing myself a three-day escape from my work commitments. I guess my initiative to do that may have sprung from the many weeks in the past that I had to work on weekends (because I didn't work on my hours on weekdays that I was supposed to), and I felt like I had to reward myself.
Although my Mondays are generally productive, there are some days that I just waste it away by going on Facebook, or sleeping. Classic procrastination. Tsk, tsk.
There are also times that I have a thousand thoughts in my head that I can blog about, and I tend to put it off. And although I do retain the memory of some of them, I lose the feeling. And I'm not really one to write without emotion.
They say procrastination 'eats one up' without realizing it. True enough, I believe I had stuck to such 'delaying tactics' that I don't even notice how it's affecting my timetable, and my commitments to work, family, friends...and even myself.
*****
Daily Dose was borne out of a 'lightbulb moment' I had on a slow, 'couch-potato' Monday. It came to me in the seeming bliss of my Facebook and pistachio ice cream combo.
I spent this morning mulling over an 'irritating' comment, and it affected my thoughts all day. I hate the way it brewed angry feelings inside me. I mean getting angry is natural, but most of the time, it's how people work WITH the emotion that makes it worse. I didn't want to do that. And that's when it came to me that every day is affected by how you deal with the situations you encounter. And it's up to you how to make it work against or for you. :)
Maybe this blog is all Peter Pan-ish, and too 'rose-tinted' for some, but we can't deny the fact that people want to feel good when they end the day. I for one wouldn't want to close my eyes and sleep filled with discontent or frustrations, anger or hate....Thus, this blog. :)
*****
TODAY'S RESOLUTION:
FOLLOWING THROUGH.
STICKING TO GOOD, PRODUCTIVE HABITS.
ACTION PLAN: Have a timetable to follow. Set goals.
What's YOUR resolution for today? :)
But somehow, this word finds it's way into my life every single day. It's almost like a ghost, haunting me like crazy, filling even my days with thoughts that make me delay working on what I should be working on.
I realized I can be really creative when I'm not in the mood to work, I can think of and feel so many reasons not to. Say for example... today. Monday is really my 'rest day'. After a grueling week that passed, I had made it part of my habit to devote some 'me' and family time during Mondays. Today, I think I was able to stick to that habit. I was able to check and update the layout of my existing blog, and hey, I was able to come up with this new blog. So cheers for me!
Well no. Not really.
I made Monday an extension of my weekend, allowing myself a three-day escape from my work commitments. I guess my initiative to do that may have sprung from the many weeks in the past that I had to work on weekends (because I didn't work on my hours on weekdays that I was supposed to), and I felt like I had to reward myself.
Although my Mondays are generally productive, there are some days that I just waste it away by going on Facebook, or sleeping. Classic procrastination. Tsk, tsk.
There are also times that I have a thousand thoughts in my head that I can blog about, and I tend to put it off. And although I do retain the memory of some of them, I lose the feeling. And I'm not really one to write without emotion.
They say procrastination 'eats one up' without realizing it. True enough, I believe I had stuck to such 'delaying tactics' that I don't even notice how it's affecting my timetable, and my commitments to work, family, friends...and even myself.
*****
Daily Dose was borne out of a 'lightbulb moment' I had on a slow, 'couch-potato' Monday. It came to me in the seeming bliss of my Facebook and pistachio ice cream combo.
I spent this morning mulling over an 'irritating' comment, and it affected my thoughts all day. I hate the way it brewed angry feelings inside me. I mean getting angry is natural, but most of the time, it's how people work WITH the emotion that makes it worse. I didn't want to do that. And that's when it came to me that every day is affected by how you deal with the situations you encounter. And it's up to you how to make it work against or for you. :)
Maybe this blog is all Peter Pan-ish, and too 'rose-tinted' for some, but we can't deny the fact that people want to feel good when they end the day. I for one wouldn't want to close my eyes and sleep filled with discontent or frustrations, anger or hate....Thus, this blog. :)
*****
TODAY'S RESOLUTION:
FOLLOWING THROUGH.
STICKING TO GOOD, PRODUCTIVE HABITS.
ACTION PLAN: Have a timetable to follow. Set goals.
What's YOUR resolution for today? :)
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