2011, Go!

I’m kind of a nerd when it comes to trying out new ideas for time management and organization things. A few of the blogs I follow target these areas. I mostly skim until something unique catches my eye, and then sometimes I get really excited when I find something I’m able to customize for my purposes. Implementation is the best part!

Anyway, this is my “system” for 2011; it is a concoction of ideas from various brilliant minds.

2010 Keywords

I learned last night that we don’t actually count down to the New Year for a New Years Eve service. Haha, oops! After service, I looked at my phone and it was 12:50am!! Happy…..new year minus 50 minutes!!!

Anyway, HAPPY 2010!!!! So glad 2009 is OVER. goodbye. for-EVER.

Pastor Min’s message was really insightful. I’m pretty sure he has said many similar things before, but every word spoke to my heart last night.

Time to look forward. More than resolutions, I’m making them keywords so it can trigger my memory the next 365 days.

1. First of all, January is going to be a detox month – no dessert/junk food, no meat (seafood included, eggs okay), and no soda. I already broke this accidentally after service last night, went straight for the meatball and then the brownie. :( But, progression not perfection, right? The point of this is become more aware of what I put in my mouth and also to force myself to eat more vegetables & fruits – aka be healthy.

2. Follow John Piper’s Bible reading plan to read through the Bible in a year. John Piper is simply brilliant! I follow him on Twitter, and I love that the Word of God is so integrated within him that he has a verse for everything. Hecks yeah I will follow whatever reading plan he uses! I need the Word of God IN me. I seriously do not know how to preach the Word to myself. My mind is .. so .. weak.

3. “If not now, when?” – I am the most impatient person ever, but I am also a huge procrastinator. I have a tendency to push things off to “do it later”, which eventually either becomes “never” or the biggest stress. I’m going to change my mentality to “do tomorrow’s work TODAY”, rather than do today’s work tomorrow.

4. Lastly, I want to be honest with myself and learn to distinguish between delusion and reality.  I think I have a really distorted view of myself and of this world. I used to think that I’m right and that people need to open up their eyes. But I think I’m the one who has been living in an imaginary world. I’m finally seeing that the reason people don’t understand me is because I don’t even know myself! The whole heart motive exploration process has shown me that loud and clear.. sigh.

Also, as I was sitting at the New Years Eve service last night, the word “shameless” came up. The image of King David dancing (like a fool) flashed through my mind. I’m kind of scared of why, and I wonder if that’s gonna be the lesson for 2010. If so, what kind of embarrassing things will I have to go through to learn it?  Oh dear. But perhaps that would be a good thing for me to become. Rather than being so consumed with being what others expect me to be, it wouldn’t be so terrible to finally learn how to “just be myself” all the time. (As soon as I figure out who I am in reality in #4).

So, keywords for 2010: detox, Word, now, reality. Here we go!