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#18: What ONE word or sentence will be your theme for 2019?
Link: 18 questions for an incredible review of your 2018 In the last weeks of December, I’ll be answering 18 questions for an incredible review of your 2018 that I wrote in my previous post. I hope this series inspires you to look at your life, career, family and relationship, and to reflect and plan for an awesome 2019. Let’s go. Question 17: What are your top 10 goals for 2019? I divide life into ten categories and set a major goal for each one. You can use the template below as a guide. I’m quite unrealistic in dreaming big goals. Last year under the “Finance” category, I wrote that I…
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#16: What are 5 powerful habits that you must develop in 2019?
Link: 18 questions for an incredible review of your 2018 In the last weeks of December, I’ll be answering 18 questions for an incredible review of your 2018 that I wrote in my previous post. I hope this series inspires you to look at your life, career, family and relationship, and to reflect and plan for an awesome 2019. Let’s go. Question 16: What are 5 powerful habits that you must develop in 2019? 1. Daily planning Scheduling and planning is crucial for people who aren’t organized, like me. In the past years, I’d tried different systems such as the Google Calendar, Trello, or the Bullet Journal. There’re pros and…
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#15: What are the 5 biggest necessary endings that must happen for 2019 to be spectacular?
Link: 18 questions for an incredible review of your 2018 In these last weeks of December, I’ll be answering 18 questions for an incredible review of your 2018 that I wrote in my previous post. I hope this series inspires you to look at your life, career, family and relationship, and to reflect and plan for an awesome 2019. Let’s go. 15. What are the 5 biggest necessary endings that must happen for 2019 to be spectacular? 1. Got my PhD degree Anybody who has gone through a PhD will understand how everything can bug you day and night. We face technical challenges, but the real challenge is in our mind.…
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#14: What one word sums up your entire 2018?
Link: 18 questions for an incredible review of your 2018 In these last weeks of December, I’ll be answering 18 questions for an incredible review of your 2018 that I wrote in my previous post. I hope this series inspires you to look at your life, career, family and relationship, and to reflect and plan for an awesome 2019. Let’s go. 8. Name 3 people who have the greatest impact on you in 2018. My partner – to be more organised and money-savvy. A charity project leader – to be humble, forward-thinking and focus on the value you create for other people. My professor in China – commit to your work.…
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#6-7: Which 3 important relationships improved the most? And how?
Link: 18 questions for an incredible review of your 2018 In these last weeks of December, I’ll be answering 18 questions for an incredible review of your 2018 that I wrote in my previous post. I hope this series inspires you to look at your life, career, family and relationship, and to reflect and plan for an awesome 2019. Let’s go. 6. Which 3 important relationships improved the most? My relationships with my partner, my family and myself. 7. What were the things you did that improved those relationships? MY PARTNER and I are so similar in some ways – we are both strong-minded, independent and somewhat smart (or smart-ass-y, I…
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#5: What was the smartest decision you made?
Link: 18 questions for an incredible review of your 2018 In these last weeks of December, I’ll be answering 18 questions for an incredible review of your 2018 that I wrote in my previous post. I hope this series inspires you to look at your life, career, family and relationship, and to reflect and plan for an awesome 2019. Let’s go. Question 5: What was the smartest decision you made? The best decision I made was to change the way I work. I invested in gadgets that make me work more efficiently. This change was inspired by my partner who’s more organised and tech-savvy than me. I realize that I wasted…
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#4: What was the biggest risk you took in 2018?
Link: 18 questions for an incredible review of your 2018 In these last weeks of December, I’ll be answering 18 questions for an incredible review of your 2018 that I wrote in my previous post. I hope this series inspires you to look at your life, career, family and relationship, and to reflect and plan for an awesome 2019. Let’s go. Question 4: What was the biggest risk you took in 2018? “Step out of your comfort zone.” Cliche right? I can feel you rolling your eyes. I’m advocating for this concept not as a rebellious millennials who think that stepping out of your comfort zone means travelling to somewhere in…
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#3: What were the top 10 lessons you learned?
Link: 18 questions for an incredible review of your 2018 In these last weeks of December, I’ll be answering 18 questions for an incredible review of your 2018 that I wrote in my previous post. I hope this series inspires you to look at your life, career, family and relationship, and to reflect and plan for an awesome 2019. Let’s go. Question 3: What were the top 10 lessons you learned? Speak up for myself. If I didn’t learn to do it, I’d be somebody’s puppet, without a voice and opinion in things. You’re either on the table or on the menu. I highly recommend the book Lean In by Sheryl Sandberg. Separate reality…
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#2: What were your top 10 achievements?
Link: 18 questions for an incredible review of your 2018 In these last weeks of December, I’ll be answering 18 questions for an incredible review of your 2018 that I wrote in my previous post. I hope that this inspires you to look at your life, career, family and relationship, and to reflect and plan for an awesome 2019. Let’s go. Question 2: What were your top 10 achievements? Work hard in my research project and other side hustles. Hard work pays off. Know my style and taste in fashion, makeup, perfume, designs etc. This saves me a lot of money! Improve my cooking skills. There’s something therapeutic and calming about cooking…
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#1: What were your top 10 goals for 2018?
Link: 18 questions for an incredible review of your 2018 For the next 18 days, I’ll answer 18 questions for an incredible review of your 2018 that I wrote in my previous post. I hope that this inspires you to look at your life, career, family and relationship, and to reflect and plan for an awesome 2019. Let’s go. Question 1: What were your top 10 goals for 2018? 1.Better planning Be more organised. Planning is extremely important, or else you’ll waste time heading nowhere. I think I did better than I expected. After experimenting with different planning methods, like using the Google Calendar, drawing timeline in Excel and using the bullet…
