Make 2008 my best year yet

2008 wasn’t the best it was sh*t at somepoint but okay…i don’t know about december coz that’s all i have left…oh well next year will definitely kick some major behind…i know that for sure…

Whether I am achieving this goal depends on how you look at it. It has been a difficult year, however I have faced challenges head on. Maybe being the best year does not neccessarily mean that the year goes smoothly without a hitch but that when there are obstacles you find a way around them rather than hiding.

On the plus side I had a nice holiday in September. I have officially graduated from university. I have become closer to my friends, and I am also more able to relax. In many ways this is the best year yet, even though it did come with tough times.

Bible scholars know that 8 is the number of new beginnings and this year has surely served as a new beginning for me… So many things have changed for me so I am very excited about my progress and my growth… My university has a new president, my church has a new pastor, my country has a new president (and an African-American, no less), I gave up a guy I loved forever, I moved for the first time in six years, I graduated from college, I started graduate school, I got a new car… So many things have come together or have been torn apart but it was all for my good… So this year has been a success in many more ways than one… I am so excited.

what i want to see here written for week 47 is that i started doing my egoscue e-cises, finished decluttering phase and started organising phase (yummy!) and continued meditating. and started taking my omega-3.

there is this nice free program for mindmaps, called FreeMind.
i put all my roles and current goals in it and that simple act refreshed my excitement!

i continue to build it with ideas and links and i totaly love it. there are links to my goals on 43T of course; as well as other resources. it is so comforting to discover this simple tool to have virtualy all my resources in one place. i feel scatered no more.

i wrote everything in affirmative and past tense like already achieved. what is actually done is marked green. i’m surprised how many branches of it is green already. green and alive.

This year has flown by.. and yet…

it still feels like nothing different. It hasn’t been a bad year, but it hasn’t been the best. Do I still have enough time to change that around? I know I won’t be able to accomplish all the goals I had in mind for 2008 but I can still work at them.

Maybe I can get a few things in my life figured out by the end of the year. For some reasons I expected soo much from the year 2008.

A few good things came of it.
- I am relearning how to play piano (coming back quicker than I imagined)
- I HAVE become better in Spanish (and falling more in love with the language)
- I am learning sign language.
- I am learning music theory
- I am getting better at guitar (slowly but surely)
- I have gained a really good friend.

Hopefully by the time the end of the year rolls around, I can add a few more things :)

...but 2008 sure has taught me a hell of a lot. I’ve grown up a lot, made a lot of decisions (good and bad), and overcome a lot…maybe not all the ideal things, but looking back, things that needed to happen. Maybe I’ll have grown enough in 2008 for 2009 to really be my best year yet :)

but if you try sometimes, you just might find…you get what you need.”

Never really liked that song (I always viewed it as kind of cynical), but I’m feeling a bit of a connection to it now. It seems realistic.

As it is November, I must take stock of my progress. The best year yet? Not so much… But it has been a good year. Maybe this is just a bad day… I am lonely but I mean that comes with the territory I am in right now. I am praying that I stay strong and keep the faith.

my life still on hold with 4x/w visiting my SO taking care of his mother recovering from stroke. 4x/w is too much for me. they need to hire someone to help.