A Rooster’s New Year Resolution
-Musings by Dr. Jamie Hsu, 2.10.2017
Now that the celebrations of the holidays are fading away, it is time to build upon all the blessings and best wishes, and start the year of 2017 with an energized self and focused action plan – a new year’s resolution.
For many people, their resolutions can be a collection of wishes, determinations, and to-do items. I’d like to offer a more systematic way of doing this based on my 30 years of experience. Let’s call it “A Rooster’s (me) New Year Resolution.” Here are a few pointers for you.
The first step is to envision the type of person you want to be (vision for yourself), and then pick the strategic priorities in your life (remember the Big Rocks in Blog 2?). For each one of the priority areas, think about your broad objectives and let the objectives propel you to take some actions. This way you will link your action items with what is most important to you and with what you want to achieve in life. Another benefit of doing this systematically is to balance your life and your time. Take a look at the total action lists in each category and determine if there are balanced and doable with your time and energy constraints.
Please use this opportunity to share your resolution with your spouse or partner, family, and close friends. They may give you some input and also understand you better.
A sample resolution is shown here and I hope it may trigger some ideas and give you incentive to start your own resolution.
Remember to review your own resolution from time to time. The mere fact of reviewing it will steer you toward your objectives and vision.
At the end of the year, you’ll be pleasantly surprised to see how you are becoming the person you want to be. Best Wishes and Congratulations.
雞年到！你的新年願望是什麼
–作者 許俊宸博士
–中譯 薛乃綺
近期各式各樣的節日假大概都放的差不多了，這也正好是對於2017年立下新的祝福與新的願望的時間，而且也可以對自己啟動一整個充滿活力、且有特定方向的─新年願望。
對很多人來說，他們的新年願望可能是期許、決定、待辦事項的綜合體。我想就自己30多年的經驗提供淺見，如何能有更系統的方法來訂定新年願望。姑且先稱它為”雞年新願望”吧！這邊提供幾個建議給各位看官參考：
首先，請設想一下你想成為什麼樣的人(你的自我願景)；然後找出你人生的優先次序(還記得之前Blog 2提到的大石頭嗎?)。再就每一個優先次序中，去思考你想達成的目標，讓這些目標來引導你採取行動。如此一來，就可以把你要”執行的項目”，跟你列為重要目標、想實現的願望，去做個連結。
將這件事情系統化的另一個好處是，可以讓你的時間與你的生活達到平衡。你可以檢視每個類別中的執行項目，然後去衡量看看它們是否均衡、而且是在你的時間與體力許可的範圍內。
你應該趁機跟你的另一半、家人或者好友，分享你的新年願望。他們可能會提供更好的建議、或者藉此更了解你。
我提供了一張新年願望的例樣給大家參考，希望能觸發大家一些想法，也希望能激勵大家開始做一份屬於自己的新年願望。
請記得要時常檢視它，檢視的過程也會引導你朝向自己的目標與願望前進。到了歲末年終之際，你會驚喜的發現，你已經逐漸變成你想要成為的那樣的人！ 祝福你能如願以償！
