As usual many people will make and set their own resolutions when a new year is coming. That is the same thing I do now. After looking back for a while and contemplating all I have achieved in the past (in Indonesian), here are my main resolutions for 2009 (1430 H). I will not list all of them, of course, just a few resolutions which I think are worth mentioned and drive me to live, worship, do things and work better.
- Find and get a better (permanent) job or work. Location does not matter me. I love and am used to work in diverse culture and environment. I prefer a job that allows me commuting or offers relocation package if the work is taking place outside my home town/country. Please hire me. 🙂
- Be a good and responsible father for my upcoming baby (due date: someday at the end of January 2009). I am still wondering whether it is going to be ‘he’ or ‘she’. The USG results three months ago displayed a ‘she’ sign, but my feeling however keeps saying that it would be a boy.
- Own a decent house for my family. A wish that hopefully will be fulfilled this year.
- Spend more quality time with family and relatives. Finding a right balance between private life and work.
- Earn and save more to overcome the unexpected and fulfill future needs.
- Have less debts and staying out of being a perpetual poor. I would like to live worry free and less stressful.
- Live healthier and simply. Wake up earlier, lose some weight, eat healthy, exercise more often and simplify the way I live.
- Continuously improve my personal and professional skills. Learn new skills, read more books, attend new classes/seminars/workshops, seek new and diverse experience, keep practicing skills I already have.
- Write and contribute useful things through this blog more often. Share, share and share.
- Last but not least, be closer to the Almighty and wish could help other people more and more, every day, in any way. Be grateful for all things I have. Without God and you, my friend, I am nobody.
How about you?
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Kemas Antonius 
You share many resolutions with others – see the Top Five New Year’s Resolutions. 🙂 Everyone has good intentions when they make resolutions, but all too often we forget or give up.
My personal 2009 New Year’s resolutions are more general, like “be more compassionate”, which I hope will improve my overall quality of life. I’ll let you know how that turns out. 😛