Thank You, Year 2011
The year that is about to end was super-exciting for me in all dimensions. I tried, accomplished, experienced, and learned lots of new things. At the same time I reaffirmed my beliefs and grew my love to all the good things I knew before. My proactive habits became more internalized, more part of me, to the point where I decided to switch to so-called “goalless” approach in self-development.
I feel I no longer need to set concrete goals and create detailed action plans to achieve them. Instead, just by doing things that seem right in any given moment I can be accomplishing big things. Therefore for 2012 I will not be defining any specific goals like I have done before. In fact I got rid of the pages where I had listed my goals for preceding years altogether.
Here are some of the good things that I’m happy to have done in 2011:
- Started treating sleep, nutrition and exercise as #1 priority in life
- Became even better swimmer and runner
- Blogged regularly on Malanke.com and on Malanke aprende español
- Redesigned both sites getting rid of unnecessary clutter
- Optimized self-management approach and systems
- Visited Spain for the first time staying at Barcelona, Seville and Madrid
- Visited Florida for the first time, staying at Miami Beach and travelling to Key West
- Had a great vacation on Crete with my girlfriend
- Became fluent in Spanish with the help of my wonderful intercambio friends
- Read “One Hundred Years of Solitude” in Spanish
- Participated in a real marathon
- Improved relationships with the people I care about
- Became a better employee and a better manager at work
I’m sure even more exciting things will happen in 2012.
I wish everyone a very healthy and fruitful year.
Happy Holidays!