Professionally 2011 has been great:
- I have a new boss in Fujitsu who sees the value I bring, and enables me to do what I do best.
- UKOUG has changed and I am President of a great community with a great future.
- I continue to speak around the UK and the world on Fusion Apps, with help from the ACE Program and the UX Advocates Program.
- I continue to teach my silversurfers and this year took them to Denmark.
- I continued to loose weight after my surgery late 2010 and love the new me
- Made more friends and visited more of their families
- I took the challenge to get fitter and completed my PADI Open Water
- Had a great adventure holiday with my daughter and best friends in Guernsey
- I still have fun with my imaginary friend
So my wishes for 2012
- Iron out the highs and lows (or rather drag the lows up)
- Have the best 50th birthday ever (which I will because I am celebrating in Colorado with 42 of my best friends
- See my daughter graduate from Sandhurst
- Continue to enjoy my job
- Get re-elected to UKOUG Council and stay on as President
- Make more friends and stay friends with the ones I have now
- Visit my best friend in Munster, Germany
- Step down from the Product Development Committee IOUC and help someone else take over
- Do more diving, and defiantly before the liveaboard I am doing in August
- Find someone special would be nice but not sure I am ready for online dating
2 comments:
Debra,
Your list inspired a thought that I've had before, but it's never been as clear to me as it is just now. It's simple: I think perhaps instead of a list of things we want, expect, or hope for in the coming year, perhaps a better list is the opportunities we're committed to saying yes to.
The older I get, the more aware I become of opportunities that have come our way, but we delayed or demurred, in spite of their being what we wanted. Sometimes a little extra decision-making in advance gives us more courage to say yes—and commit right on the spot—when the time comes.
What do you think?
I agree although I would need to clarify a little. I need to decide what I want to do in general terms and then be able to say yes or no to opportunities. If I don't know what I want then I end up saying yes to everything and then burn out or miss the things I really want to do.
As for you, if the decision to say yes, had been made at the same time as articulating the desire to do the presentation, it would not have been such a worry; but who am I to talk?
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