New Year's Resolution. It's Been A While...

I pretty much stopped blogging because I ran out of things to write. I have been pretty lazy lately. Mostly contemplating how to use my life for better purpose. I also made drastic changes in my personal daily routines that will be continued for a year. There have been so small things I am currently doing to improve my life. I am starting to think I will be a whole different person by December 31, 2014.

Year 2013 has been MOST resourceful year of my life. I excelled in my job by getting a cornerstone nomination, certified myself as an ethical hacker, created my first mobile android app to educate people to quit smoking, written one book published in the Kindle store, and went to a seminar that helped me cross my comfort zone to change my life for better. I couldn't ask for anything better. I thank the universe for treating me so good lately!!!

I already have few goals in my mind for Year 2014. I realized that the ONLY year I could make 2014 more productive is to work on myself to get better. I want to create something innovative, make myself more educated, and cross more comfort zones. Hey, twenty-fourteen. Here I come!!! :)

Risks

I actually made a very important decision couple weeks ago - I would rather pursue what I want even if my secure reputation is at risk rather than living my life in a shell. To get what I want, I must be willingly to pay the price. 

How to Use Acceptance to Overcome Weakness?

I always hated my foreign english accent ever since I started living in United State for 5 years. I tried faking it to make myself as a local person, but it's always there. It's a permanent part of who I am. I always thought it was a weakness I need to overcome so that people around don't find me inferior, or incompetent. Even though there were friends who continued to support me that it's not a big deal; my accent actually made me self conscious.

But the good news is I finally realized there is no fucking way I can get rid of my voice and accent; it's always a part of me. When I start to accept it as part of myself and fully expressed it, I realized I don't feel uncomfortable about myself anymore. I actually end up making myself center of attention nowadays more often. I think acceptance is one way to overcome personal weakness, or inferiority complex. I also believe using my weakness as an asset to accomplished something great is ideal.

How to Use Power Affirmations to Solve Problems?

One thing I have love & hate about my job is that there is always some problems waiting for me to solve. Some days I feel like I can fix anything, get rid of bunch of issues from the list, and give myself a pat on my back. But there few days it takes hours for me to figure out complicated software bugs from our legacy web applications, and it almost seem impossible to know what's going on. But there is one magic line that keeps me going, and magically turn anything situation around, that is, "We will figure it out!". I don't think it motivates me or psych me up in any way during some very fucked up situation, but I think "some positive thinking is better than no positive thinking". Although the last issue I turn around was a pain in the ass, I found out that these simple & boring few magic words worked wonders for me. Hope this spell works the same for you.

How to Find More Clarity in My Life?

In the last few weeks I have been writing down all my thoughts in my tablet, or blogging. The benefit I reap from writing down my feelings, confusions, and fears verbally is that I get more clarity in my thoughts. I start to understand more of myself - my strengths & weaknesses.

Sometimes I blow a small issue out of proportion, and give it more importance than it's necessary. When I write down those small issues and read them, I find them very trivial to worry of.