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I got back from Fiji last night and I’m hoping to enjoy the last few days of the break before work starts again. I’ll have to blog about Fiji separately as I’ve lost the USB cable for my camera and can’t access my photos right now, which is most annoying!

The start of a new year is always great for re-assessing your life and deciding on some changes. Why we can’t do this continuously throughout the year is beyond me, but humans are funny creatures and I am no different. Regardless, I’ve spent the last few weeks thinking over how I’d like things to be and what I’d like my life to be like. So this year, I’m making a more concerted effort to come up with some decent resolutions and work harder at achieving them. I’ve tried to come up with one resolution for each ‘area’ of my life – work, relationships (not necessarily romantic ones), personal growth and health. Hopefully this is a balanced enough approach to see me through the year. So here they are:

• achieve some semblance of work/life balance
• meet new people (in general)
• lose weight (encapsulating exercise more, eat healthier, drink less)

They seem general enough, but they address most of what was causing me unhappiness in 2009. They’re also the areas that I’ve gotten most comments on from my close friends. From these few resolutions I’ve come up with a few goals – more tangible things that I can achieve and measure against at the end of the year. And the goals are as follows:

• Read 12 books (that’s one a month – should be a breeze, but I have to factor in busy season, Europe, life)
• Join a string ensemble/quartet/music group – hopefully this will force me to practise violin more (thanks to Manda for this)
• Blog more – already trying to do this one, but hopefully I can keep it to once a week minimum
• Take up a recreational sport – either swimming, tennis or indoor rock-climbing (or a bit of all three!)

I think all this will be enough to keep me very busy this year!

That’s right. After posting in my 43things list about Deakin 7 months ago and never updating… I’ve now actually completed all three subjects that I needed to do. Managed to score 3 credits as well. This was pretty awesome considering I didn’t start studying for Tax & Law until the week before the exams. Some major cramming sessions with Chez though, meant that we were able to cover a lot of ground quite quickly. Now that that’s over… CA here I come! Hrm, that’s going to become another “thing” on my list huh.

See more progress on: study for Deakin

So, I enrolled in two subjects for the Deakin conversion course. This course will effectively allow me to start CA without having to do any sort of exam or whatever. It’s to make up for not doing all the CA required subjects at uni. I’m not too fussed about that – I preferred to have the 2 majors, as I was not certain I would end up doing CA.

Anyways, so this semester I’m studying Taxation and Commercial Law. Sounds like a great combination for being “bored to death”. I ordered my textbooks and they arrived a couple of days later. I’ve yet to get cracking into the study though. I really need to budget in time for this – it’s easy to say that I will study later, but it’s not like I’m going to suddenly have time. So yeah. really… I just need to find the discipline.

In addition, I’ve added this as a “goal” to my 43 things profile. We’ll see how this goes.

See more progress on: study for Deakin