Before the year really starts rolling in, I decided to write some goals to achieve. The beginning of a new year, though now slightly behind, is a great ‘excuse’ to sit down and reflect upon.. upon so many aspects of your life, such as where you are, where you are going, with whom, what is dear to you, what would you like to achieve, etc. Here are the most prominent of goals I have for this new 2016.

• Do one thing at at time: just how tough is this for me, but surely for others too. So easy to be busy in the head with 5+ items simultaneously, jump from one task to the other.. This is a noble, but almost impossible to achieve goal: do one thing, sit still, finish it, and do the next task. But I’m keen on trying my best!
• Live here and now: largely related to the above, because when the head is full of thoughts for what’s next, it rarely is actually here. Another noble goal.
• Eat as healthy as possible: Takes some effort, but a very rewarding one, plus cooking is sort of meditative. The one goal I am definitely likely to achieve this year.
• Rest, relax, meditate. All that is necessary to curb the already endless flow of energy I seem to have, which often results in restlessness.
• Sport: Essential part in keeping the body and soul more rested and peaceful. With the notable advantage of being fun, leaving you fit and healthy.
• Read more. Not online articles, but books. As my father says: “the computer / Internet is an endless ocean, but a little bit shallow. The deepest sea is the books”. The man has read thousands of books. Well, I’ll start modest and realistic: 5 pages a day. But, surely, if the book is involving, that’d mean more pages.
• Speak less (and slow), listen more. It is so so easy to carry on blabla-ing. I am an expert myself. I’d much rather I could use the ears-to-mouth proportion also in terms of output: we have two ears and one mouth for a reason.
• Write neatly: I catch myself writing utterly scruffy and often unreadable. A friend once even asked me, upon seeing my writing: “Alex, did you forget how to write?”. Sometimes it does really look like I did. Well, it’s worth putting an effort in it. Putting that just small extra effort into writing, really, how much more time would it take?

Those are already quite enough, and if I achieved even a small part of them, I’d be happy.

What are your goals, have you thought about this yourself?

Thanks for your time and I hope you enjoyed reading it.