2024 goals check-in

I may have not opened my goal list since I wrote it down, I know, embarrassing. But let’s see how did I do without actually have to check them.

The world of the year is OPENING. Opening to new ideas, selectively, and mindfully. I think overall I have done it well.

PERSONAL GOALS

• Mindfulness. Meditate. Focus one task at the time. Minimize distractions. I meditate most of the days while not traveling. I could still focus more and minimize multi-tasking, like walking to office without music/podcast, doing chores without anything in my ear, not eating in front of computer, etc. Work in progress.
• Be aware of tradeoffs. CHECK. Even when I get annoyed with too much noises at home when the whole family is around, I remind myself that what’s the alternative? do I want that alternative? One day, kids will be gone, and I will terribly miss those noises.
• Running: Set a new PR for my marathon. CHECK! Paris marathon 2024, 3:57:41 
• Fitness: Continue strength training, aim for 2+ times per week. CHECKED 90% when I am not traveling.
• Diet: incorporate more protein. CHECK. When I am not traveling, I average 80-100 g per day. I’ve since started the vegan trial in July for 3 months, to see how it affects my blood sugar control, LDL, and training.
• Reading: read slow, take notes to fully absorb it. Read what gives me conform and what takes me out of comfort. CHECK. I am not focusing to read certain number of books per year, I am reading what sounds good, fun, interesting at the moment.
• WISH: run a sub-4 marathon. CHECK.
• WISH: go on a trip with my friend. CHECK. I went to climb Rinjani with one of my best work friends in Indonesia.

FAMILY GOALS

• Schedule 1 on 1 time with each member. Either a meal out, a walk, a trip. Semi-CHECK. We did schedule few 1-on-1 time with the girls, maybe twice for each. But mostly we take spontaneous opportunities to be alone in a casual manner. With husband, we had few massage dates and lunches together.
• Plan one big trip with key elements: nature, active, unexplored. CHECK with our Sumba and Bali trip. We will have two more trips like this later in the year.
• Regular small adventures: new restaurant, new places in our city, new movies, new recipes. Semi-CHECK. I prefer to stay home on weekends to rewind, relax, which we only little time for as girls have swimming and other activities most of weekends. I am happy to abandon the outing while in Jakarta as we do a lot of exploration when traveling. New movies and new recipes, yes! I am watching more movies this year, and with the regained interest in vegan food, I am having fun trying new recipes.

PROFESSIONAL GOALS/WISH

• Get out of my comfort zone. BIG CHECK. My presentation in DC was way out of my comfort zone, my stress level a month out of the presentation was so high. It went well and I finally calmed down minutes before my turn.
• Read more work related topics. NEAR ZERO and it is okay.
• WISH: land in a new job outside of Asia. Unlikely to happen in 2024 and that is fine.

OVERALL despite zero check-in since I wrote them down, I did quite a lot of progress toward them if not all.

For the rest of 2024, I want to be even more intentional with time spent with the family, more on that later. 🙂