MBA fever everywhere!

Q. What do you want to in life?
A. I want to do an MBA.

FYI: You cannot do an MBA in life! 

January: To Educate myself

Realized I need deadlines to get started on my resolutions.

11. Read a book a week.  ( Reading 3 books together, should be done with 4 by EOM)
17. Read a children's book every 2 months. ( Already got Tintin from the library.. it's a comic I know but I am very excited)
28. Spend at least 6 hours a week one education. ( 24 hours of education is going to be tough, since I have not started)
25. Find homes for more street dogs. Spread awareness and run collection drives. Do at least 1 project a  month. (Already started a collection drive, need to get more energy in though.. sometimes you have to drive a drive :P)
31. Laugh till my stomach hurts; at least once a month. (Almost, but my standards are high.. :D)

Why do we make New Year resolutions?

 To grow, to make progress and to move forward in life; change is required and this change itself sometimes requires some kind of stimuli, a turning point, a change of weather, a fresh start.. and this is exactly what every New Year offers us a chance to start afresh and live our lives exactly the way we dream't and hence we resolve to do things differently. Whether we pass or fail in our endeavors I think it's important to make a start because sometimes change can only happen slowly.

2011 was the year of lessons and 2012 shall be the year of Grand Plans. 

The two most important things I learnt which shall be the guiding principles for my 2012 resolutions are:

• Only if you love life truly, will life truly love you back. If you are scared and hold back; life will hold back from you too.
• There is only one question to ask,"What would you do if you were not afraid?"  Asking this to myself always helps me take some of the more difficult decisions in my personal and professional life.

Now moving onto the fun part of actually making my resolutions, first I'll mention some of the basic principles on which my resolutions are based.

• I want to improve my health. Exercise more, eat healthier and cut back on the toxins.
• Educate myself further. I already have a college degree but I don't want to just study for a degree. There is so much to know out there and I want to dedicate some amount of time increasing my knowledge.
• To say "yes" to all the stuff close to my heart including causes ( my favorite animal shelter) and hobbies (painting, cooking).
• To nurture all my relationships far and close with trust, honesty, respect and love. To keep making deposits in the emotional wealth banks of my relations. A phone call, email, chat, facebook, a lunch date, a drink with the boys... the options are endless. And of course most importantly to love myself and spend time doing things I love, to enrich my mind, body and soul.
• And last but not the least to live life queen size. Travel, be spontaneous, do random crazy things, laugh till my stomach hurts, to talk without thinking, to explore, have fun and soak it all in.

My actual resolutions should come in a more fun format and I have to think carefully as I am one year away from hitting quarter life crisis and maybe the world will end so 2012 will have to be lived properly and thoroughly.

Cheers!

A Season of Change

It's September, that time of the year again. Time for things to change. Why September you may ask; it may not be so; yet I have seen year after year as July eases past, and August starts marching in... the colors start changing, the colors of life. Soon September is twirling around things with gaiety as I attempt to dance to it's tunes.

   "You are absolutely correct!"
   " But if I was in your place..."
   " No, I think your first decision is better..."
   " Why don't you stay with her, she was looking for  a place?"
   " Hey, stay as a paying guest it's best; less worries."
   " Nope, how can you share a room with complete strangers!"
   " Hey I heard of this place, it's kinda faraway but the rates are good."
   " No Power back up, Madam."
   " Yes, the place is great, great location too, 45k a month and electricity extra"

My brain is buzzing and I still don't have any place to stay! However what I do know is that there will always be a house to find, a promotion to run after, exams to answer, loans to apply for and bills to wring your hands over. And in the end it's the people who effect you the most, people who too come and go with the change of seasons.
  The girl you lived with everyday for three years of college becomes someone you email once a month. Someone you had lunch with everyday, is someone you see once a year and your own sister you grew up with  is in another country and you haven't met her in two years. Your best friends who share a part of your soul now live in cities far away. People you trusted the most for years break your heart.
   Change is at my door again. People I shared my life with must go away again, I shall cease to be the center of the universe for someone. Yet Life must go on, it must get a chance to introduce me to new people, new smiles to smile back at, strange sounds of laughter which will soon turn familiar, the sweetness of finding someone as crazy as you, someone who likes the same music as you do or maybe the same books, new conversations, new findings and the same old life which never ceases to change. The perfect note to end and begin things with, comfort for my soul and balm for my heart.. always... a few beautiful lines of poetry.


"Memory is a tenuous thing. . . .
flickering glimpses, blue
and white, like ancient,
decomposing 16mm film.
Happiness escapes
me there, where faces
are vague and yesterday
seems to come tied
up in ribbons of pain.

Happiness? I look for it intead
in today, where memory
is something I can still
touch, still rely on.
I find it in the smiles
of new friends, the hope
blossoming inside.

My happiest memories
have no place in the
past; they are those
I have yet to create."— Ellen Hopkins 



The prompt from Red Dress Club:


Labor Day weekend is almost upon us.
It is a time of transition: summer to fall, kids back to school, no more wearing white..
For this week’s prompt, write about a season of change for your character or you. It can be literal or metaphorical.

A little bit of crazy.. maybe a bit too much

I always like to believe that I am crazy in a good way. Mostly logical and sensible and then when I am on the verge of being boring I must do something exciting. However sometimes... just sometimes I act in ways I want to disown myself later for. There is only one word for them "Crazy Temper Tantrums" which catch me unawares when I am feeling a bit under the weather. I think it must be in my blood, I have heard rumors of CTT in my ancestors too. Either ways as hard as I try to disown CTT as a part of me it comes back to haunt me. Either ways Jane Austen seems to get me. For more context read below:

"I have faults enough, but they are not, I hope, of understanding. My temper I dare not vouch for. It is, I believe, too little yielding— certainly too little for the convenience of the world. I cannot forget the follies and vices of other so soon as I ought, nor their offenses against myself. My feelings are not puffed about with every attempt to move them. My temper would perhaps be called resentful. My good opinion once lost, is lost forever." 

— Jane Austen (Pride and Prejudice)

Kick Start your Mornings!

A Beautiful Picture... A few valuable words to set my mind and heart free... to read and write... and of course my morning cuppa of tea. 

Guilty Pleasures often courtesy @Nation Geographic, @goodreads and of course my favorite notebook and the morning newspaper!

Change

What is gone, it cannot come back; 

What is to come, it cannot be stopped; 

What cannot be stopped you must accept 

& What you must accept, you might as well love.