alex.cvitanovic

Okay, it’s that time of the year again: new years res­o­lu­tions. Fool­ish and ambi­tious goals you set your­self in jan­u­ary, only to find out by mid feb­ru­ary that these were merely empty promises and unre­al­is­tic expec­ta­tions you placed upon yourself.

Seri­ously though, I’ve tried to make mine as real­is­tic as pos­si­ble, I really want to achieve these by the end of the year! Here goes…

01 \\ write a movie review.
I always love the tedious and men­tally exhaust­ing arti­cles that crit­ics write before the release of a movie. My favourite recently has been for the flick “the day the earth stood still” for which the cri­tique was “an inter­est­ing story how­ever the writ­ers should not have taken the title so seri­ously: the story did not need to stand still for the entir­ity of the movie”.
I can only dream of writ­ing some­thing so witty and dero­gatary about a multi-million dol­lar blockbuster…

02 \\ take danc­ing lessons
When it comes to the art of danc­ing I have two left feet, who, despite their best inten­tions, sim­ply do not make the cut on the dance floor. 2009 is the year to rec­tify this ter­ri­ble plight, and I plan to do so by tak­ing danc­ing lessons… Well at least one danc­ing les­son. We’ll see how it goes.

03 \\ read 12 (fairly) thick books
Read­ing expands the mind, and mine sure could use some expand­ing. I would love to get back into the habit of read­ing nov­els (a habit I have not been acquainted with since high school). Expand the vocab­u­lary, increase the imag­i­na­tion and inspire the thought process. Any suggestions?

04 \\ evan­ge­lise
I would be hon­oured to be able to bring the Gospel to some­one in need, to share the good news. I’m a fairly shy per­son nat­u­rally so this can be quite a chal­lenge for me. Let’s start by being the hands and feet of Jesus.

05 \\ Bud­get
Now that I have a full­time job and I am blessed to be on a salary, I can really start bud­get­ing and plan­ning for the future. I have sev­eral finan­cial goals, includ­ing pay­ing off my col­lege debt and sav­ing for a USA hol­i­day, and these won’t come to pass with­out some finan­cial discipline…And tak­ing home packed lunches to work. I spend a for­tune on food at work.

06 \\ start an exer­cise rou­tine
By mid year I would like to have a reg­u­lar and set exer­cise rou­tine. Also to have some kind of diet/meal plan would be ben­e­fi­cial. Would like to lose about 15/20 kgs over the year.

07 \\ pray and jour­nal more
Who doesn’t this apply to, seri­ously. “Pray con­stantly with­out ceas­ing” — like any of us actu­ally live up to that day by day. I really want to focus on pray­ing and read­ing my bible much more this year, along with jour­nalling daily. I used to jour­nal, but stopped, and now (mainly due to the fact that I’m male and we gen­er­ally find that kind of thing hard) I keep pro­cras­ti­nat­ing and putting it off.

08 \\ climb the Syd­ney har­bour bridge
Legally of course, on one if those tours. It’s been on my to-do list for a very long time, since I was a child. 09 is the year this dream comes true.

09 \\ make a new friend
Just one. A deep and mean­ing­ful friend­ship that will last a lifetime.

If there was one other goal it would be to blog more! I’m aim­ing for once a fort­night at the moment so we’ll see how that goes.

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