Sunday, January 04, 2015
My 2015 Specific, Achievable, Realistic, and Time-bound Life and Blog Goals
Sunday, January 04, 2015Wow! First post for the year, and I'm pressured to make this a good one! Hahaha! Well hello loves! HAPPY NEW YEAR! This has been th...
Wow! First post for the year, and I'm pressured to make this a good one! Hahaha! Well hello loves! HAPPY NEW YEAR! This has been the longest vacation I think I've ever had for the last couple of years as a working mom! I am happy that I was able to spend it with my family and was also able to do long overdue home errands.
How about you? How's the holiday going on for you? I hope you too are having a blast!
Anyway, while most of my blogger friends had started blogging since January 1, I on the other hand, was asleep almost the whole day. Wow! What a way to spend the first day of 2015 right? The only thing we did as a family was to go out for dinner at Ma Mon Luk in Quezon Ave. to get some warm Chicken Mami on a cold night. Hence, our first dinner for 2015 was spent outside our home! :)
Every new year, I usually write down my goals, and not resolutions. I do so because I feel like goals are more targeted to what you want to achieve which should couple with a working plan and actions. For me, it's more realistic and time-bound. As I recall last year, my goals were generic and just talked about how to become a better person and start fresh: Forgive, Let Go. Learn. Be Better. Start. I even wanted a weight-loss journey, which of course didn't happen successfully. What happened was I lost someone significant but I gained a lot of realizations and life lessons which totally changed the way I look at things today. This life-changing moment influences my goal-setting for the year. Here they are:
FAMILY.
I cannot say that I am not a hands-on mom when I am home with my kids. I am. But I feel like I have to do more for them, be more involved, be more present, listen more, hug and kiss more, be a better mother than how I am with them presently. I want to read them more books, keep the school boy more focused on his studies, teach more house chores, and teach more about Jesus. It's hard to be a working mother because I am away 2,640 hours from them in a year (lunch break and travel time going to and from office included.) Which means, on days I am with them, I have to compensate for the times I don't see them, that's when I become a hands-on parent. But when some days turn bad or when I am totally tired, I depend on the helper to do things I am expected to do. Sometimes I feel guilty about it, but what can I do? So my goal this year is to be more present for them to meet their needs, wants and expectations from me. In order for me to achieve that, I have to be more efficient in other areas of my life outside home and to also be healthier so I'll have more energy even when I'm tired from the office.
How about you? How's the holiday going on for you? I hope you too are having a blast!
Anyway, while most of my blogger friends had started blogging since January 1, I on the other hand, was asleep almost the whole day. Wow! What a way to spend the first day of 2015 right? The only thing we did as a family was to go out for dinner at Ma Mon Luk in Quezon Ave. to get some warm Chicken Mami on a cold night. Hence, our first dinner for 2015 was spent outside our home! :)
Every new year, I usually write down my goals, and not resolutions. I do so because I feel like goals are more targeted to what you want to achieve which should couple with a working plan and actions. For me, it's more realistic and time-bound. As I recall last year, my goals were generic and just talked about how to become a better person and start fresh: Forgive, Let Go. Learn. Be Better. Start. I even wanted a weight-loss journey, which of course didn't happen successfully. What happened was I lost someone significant but I gained a lot of realizations and life lessons which totally changed the way I look at things today. This life-changing moment influences my goal-setting for the year. Here they are:
FAMILY.
I cannot say that I am not a hands-on mom when I am home with my kids. I am. But I feel like I have to do more for them, be more involved, be more present, listen more, hug and kiss more, be a better mother than how I am with them presently. I want to read them more books, keep the school boy more focused on his studies, teach more house chores, and teach more about Jesus. It's hard to be a working mother because I am away 2,640 hours from them in a year (lunch break and travel time going to and from office included.) Which means, on days I am with them, I have to compensate for the times I don't see them, that's when I become a hands-on parent. But when some days turn bad or when I am totally tired, I depend on the helper to do things I am expected to do. Sometimes I feel guilty about it, but what can I do? So my goal this year is to be more present for them to meet their needs, wants and expectations from me. In order for me to achieve that, I have to be more efficient in other areas of my life outside home and to also be healthier so I'll have more energy even when I'm tired from the office.