Taking stock of my life

After the Chinese New Year break, is time to pick up what I've left behind. This time, I would like to make a fresh start for my future.

After reading Gobala's posting today, it really struck me that all along till now, I didn't really take stock of what I'm doing in the pass whether is what I really wanted/ like to do. It just like I'm walking through life without realising where am I heading.

The following is an exercise I did after reading a book called "21st Century Overdrive Building" by Steve Chen. He's the Asian spoke-person for Anthony Robbin. This book is in Chinese, I'm not sure whether there is a English version. Anyway, those who read Chinese books, the ISBN# is 7-5015-3295-8. You can check out his book in all major bookstores using the ISBN#.

Back to my subject. The exercise I did was pretty simple yet it play a very important role in shaping my future. This is how the exercise looks like:

1) Take out a piece of paper, draw a straight line in between.
2) On the right side, put a heading of "What I like to do & do it well".
3) On the left side, put a heading of "What I dislike doing & do it badly".
4) List down as many things as I can think of. Important: I don't prejudge the activities.
5) After that, I start going throught the list. I found out what makes me say "Oh Ya!" & "No Way!".
6) From the analysis, I can now decide whether the "Oh Ya!" list of things are the areas I like to develop & shape my future.

Well, that's a pretty easy thing to do, right? Simple yet important cause my future lies there.

Note: I have more than one areas to develop, so I decided to pick one & start focusing on that till I see result. Then, only then, the other one. A journey of a thousand miles begin with a single step.