Year 2010 Assessment

Every year, I make it a point to do a "self-assessment". It's nothing standard, but for me it keeps me on track. I'm the type of person who always need to have a "plan", calculated risks and "predictions" of things that can happen with every possible move.

To make it clear, it's like I'm always playing a "life chess": I have to predict how the "opponent" (in real life setting this is the "actual situation") will react in every possible move I do and then plan how I should act accordingly.

Just a few weeks ago, I turned a year older. So I guess I have to do this painful yearly process and hope that I am on track:

Year: 2010
Age: 27
M. status: Single, just broke up
Financial status: okay, but have to double time because the next years will be demanding
Social obligations: none (I need to improve on this)
etc.. the list is long and is saved on my laptop.

So, with this results I'm thinking of what I should really do with my life now.. rather, I have several things in mind, problem is I don't know WHICH to do first and HOW to do it.

Here are My To Do List:
Major (not in any order)

• Finish my MSc degree (only have 6 units left)
• Seek career advancement and increase earning capability
• Set-up and start my own business 
• Be in my healthiest form, fit and strong
• Start investing (hopefully will complete my emergency fund by May) 
• Buy my own house and lot (with a big garden for my dog and dogs to come)
• Send my brother and sisters back to school

Minor (not in any order)

• Have a "partner" (not husband, but deeper than just a boyfriend)
• Learn how to cook
• Volunteer for PAWS and PETA (be more active in their cause)
• Have more family time
• Have a more active social life

Currently, my life is more so like work-gym-home. No social life, mainly because most of my friends are now abroad. I am tempted to follow them, but I guess I still haven't lost my hope that I can also have a good life here in my beloved Philippines.

I have big dreams when I was a child. Like becoming an astronaut!!! But I realized that is almost impossible especially because my family is not rich enough to send me to a 1st world country to study. And so I just settled to becoming a Nobel prize winner.. hehehehe. They have one even in the poorest country!

Don't stop dreaming and growing as a person.. it's two of the most important indicators that you are still alive.

Wish me luck!
Mars