I woke up finding multiple reasons to be annoyed on the very last day of 2017. My mom left her alarm on and disturbed my sleep; when I gave up sleeping and checked my phone instead, I did not see a message I was expecting… just to name a couple. These triggered an onslaught of negative thoughts, more reasons to feel discontent.
I was ready to have a bad end to this year, but then I surprised myself.
I penned my 2017 Resolutions during an 11-hour transit in Hong Kong back in January. I didn’t have any notebook with me, so I had to write them down on a scrap paper.
Sitting by a glass wall that overlooks the tarmac, illuminated by the setting sun, it was one of those light bulb moments when words just flow. I was hopeful. Not unlike the sun that set shortly after, however, my resolutions that it fueled soon died out.
Here’s how it happened and how I restarted my resolutions back to life in three essential steps.
Part of reclaiming your life is knowing what you want to do with it professionally. And never have I thought that in my early twenties, I would be faced with the question, ‘Do you see yourself playing an integral part in this company’s growth in the next five years?’.
In other words, if I’m interested in being in it for the long haul, going more into the management side and helping run the company. Just between you and me, that is not the question that we millennials should be grappling with so early in life, right?
Wrong.
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