I’ve been really patient, but it’s December, so now I’m allowed to talk about goals and achievements and lessons learned.

This year, I finished my work a few weeks early. And even though there’s still a month to go for the year to be over (and I am technically still working), I’m pretending it already is. Bear with my weirdness, please.

December is always a special time for me. Year endings and new beginnings are especially marked in my calendar because my birthday also falls in December, and with a new age, I make new plans and new goals. I also read back over my journal for the past year and try to figure out how I got to where I am, and how to get to where I want to be.

2007 has been particularly tough in some ways, and absolutely perfect in others. I have, never before in my life, been thrown so many challenges one after the other. But, and not to go too new-agey on you, each time I’ve been absolutely convinced that I can’t go on, someone has shown up with a solution that is so perfect, I’ve actually been thankful for the not-so-pleasant things that have happened. I have met many amazing people this year, and I’m glad that some of them have become very important parts of my life.

Changes I’m bringing about in 2008:

1. Workaholism goes out. Actually, I’ve been pretty good in the last quarter of 2007, but I’ve been told there’s scope for improvement.

2. I’m being very focused. In terms of publications I work with, and topics I’ll write about.

3. I’m no longer going to do things because of who or what I’d like to be at age 40 or 50. I’ll think about the person I want to be at 26, and see if I’m anywhere near to being that person.