Guess it's time to draw up lists of resolutions, pull out reviews of books read, movies seen, progress made, lessons learnt, draw up a mini statement of monies made, blown, left and due, remember places traveled and generally summarize the year for posterity.
2009 was a static year. Nothing happened, it just passed by.
2010 has the makings of a change year- an year with the weight of a decade on its back- seems like a turn around a block, resulting in a complete change in the view.
Another decade is over. From jumping aimlessly into my 30s in 2000 to cautiously planning for the 40s in 2010, it has been a transformational decade. TIME magazine calls it the Decade from Hell; Business Today calls it India's Best Decade. Maybe thats the worldview. When I began the 30s, we were half a trillion $ economy. Today, ten years down we are a trillion and half!
But personally, the decade has reduced my hair, increase my pulse rate, made me a conformist from a confrontist, converted me from a functionalist to a generalist and a tougher negotiator.
To summarize what has changed, transformed- needs more pause, more reflection and more thinking and more projecting into the future. Maybe till 2020.
Whats my view of myself in 2020?
Empty Nest. Entrepreneur. Dollar Multi-Millionaire. Author. Professor. Traveler.
These are six possibilities, not in any order.
But, before all of these possibilities looms a 12 month certainity- 2011.
Should I plan one step towards each of these goals in 2011? Maybe.
Back to 2010. All in all, an year that marks the beginning of a period of considerable progress with some initial milestones achieved. Read very few books this year, but bettered the average in December - having been laid low by flu, have managed to finish in fiction-Elizabeth Gilbert's Eat, Pray, Love (great 2/3rd- Rome and Indonesia); Sunetra Choudhury's Braking News ( a missed opportunity to produce a masterpiece); John Updike's Rabbit, Run (cant believe it is about life in the 50's) and begun to read the much discussed- 'the girl with the dragon tattoo'. It's also been an year of travel compared to last year- globe trotted to US, France, Hong Kong - mostly places I have been to earlier. Did see many many movies this year, culminating in the launch of a movie channel! Did a small and refreshing education flip course- spent a few days at the ISB-Kelloggs discussing strategy and lectured students visiting from Kelloggs on Indian media. Also gained a definitive couple of kilos as I tipped the 115kg mark. This is one milestone I am not happy about, since unlike my earlier weight gains, this one comes with stress, not cheery prosperity. Could 2010 also be the springboard to greater adventure?
2011, here I come.
No goals at the moment. Just plain anticipation of an interesting year.
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