2012 RESOLUTIONS!!!

Every time I think of a new year, I think about a new beginning, a new start. I used to think that once the clock struck 12am on new year's eve, everything about last year would be erased but I was wrong. Life is a continuum, so whatever that was done in the past is done. Last year might be the best year of your life or it might be the worst, recognize how you feel about your previous year and set new resolutions to make it better. And always remember: "You can never solve a problem on the level which it was created" - Albert Einstein. In other words, the same actions will always lead to the same results. You can't solve a problem with the same actions that created it. So here are my new year resolutions and how I plan to archive them.

1. Talk less and listen more.

By this, I don't mean that I should just shut up and close all my ideas to myself, I just want to understand and think more before I speak. Last year, something in my drama class struck me. it was a poem about how people in well-developed countries are becoming more and more greedy, over populating, over consuming, and they all want to be heard but not to listen. The poem described this as "creating a clashing symphony of grunts and hisses that can even be heard in the dead of night." And I really think that not listening, not observing, and not caring is why we have so many misunderstandings, misjudgments, wrong assumptions etc. And as much as I don't want to be misjudged, misunderstood, and wrongly assumed, I shall do the same for others.

2. Playing the 'No game'.

In a book called The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens, I've learn that people's actions can lead to 4 kinds of consequences:

- You lose, I win.

- You win, I lose.

- You lose, I lose.

- You win, I win.

And in the book they told us that the best way to do anything is to find a win-win solution. But sometimes it's hard to archive that, so I decided to learn to play the no game! This means that I would have to learn how to identify if a situation isn't win-win before I start 'playing'. If I realized that this game is not a win-win, I would stand aside and not participate in that dirty game. Of course, I can always try to make it a win-win, but my experiences with my mom has told be that, that's much harder than I think! So, sometimes no game is the right game.

3. Time-management.

It's time to remind myself, you can't solve a problem with the same mind that created it. I have been struggling with this one for very long now. And this year, I am determined to overcome this one. I need to start writing stuff down.

4. Be able to do the human flag.

This is a human flag:

And that takes a lot of strength to do. So, by going through the training to be able to do this one, I will be able to archive a healthier me and an awesome pose! Lol, this is just for fun.

5. Let my music out.

I think if there was a recording studio in my heart, an abulm of songs would have been written. But there's none, so it's time to let my music out like how Girls Generation bring the boys out. LOL. Okay, that was cold.

So yeah, those are my resolutions! Hope that 2012 is a successful year!!