New Year, New Goals

2016 was a roller coaster ride for me.

There are a lot of ups and downs.

Despite all these, 2016 was my turning point in achieving my dreams – learning music on voice and keyboard, perform on stage and write songs.

That’s just the start.

This brand new year, 2017, new goals will be set. Goals that have been achieved last year will be continued and goals that have been skipped last year will be done this year.

Some of the goals that have been achieved last year that I wanted to continue this year are the following:

Voice lessons

Last year was the start of something new for me. Beginning of last year was disastrous. I was all over the place. 2^nd half of last year, I improved. But still, there are a lot of things to work on. Last month on the year ender concert, it’s my first time to sing solo and some of applause at the end. That was sick.

But now, 2017, I will continue on my voice lessons. There are still things I needed to know of, learn and improve on. Also, I wanted to learn on theatrics and do auditions.

These are my goals on taking up voice lessons.

Keyboard lessons

2^nd half of last year, I started learning keyboard from the beginning.it enhances my listening skills when doing vocalizations and learn about notes and chords. I am beginning to know about the chords when playing songs, techniques and shortcuts. I also played the keyboard on stage for a couple of concerts and still there are things I need to improve on. I still need a lot of practice.

But for this year, 2017, I will still continue on my keyboard lessons. I still need to learn more about the chords; notes and scales so that I can start composing songs on my own.

Write and compose songs

On the last quarter of 2015, I started to compose a Marian song and it was chosen for a non-profit contest on an album. That was my debut.

Last year, I started to compose Visayan songs and joined a Visayan songwriting contest. I also started attending songwriting workshops so that I can learn more on how I can compose songs nicely and melodically. I even attended a music summit to learn more on ideas of what I can write and compose with.

This year, 2017, I will still continue to write songs. It will still be collaboration with my friend on ideas, tunes, notes and harmonies. I will still need to attend workshops to enhance my songwriting skills.

Blog posting

Last year, I started to do blog posting at full blast. It started with the personal experiences I have recently encountered. Then it continues on and on. Every time there is an event in my life, I write and post them in my blog site.

So in this year, I’ll continue on writing whatever memorable or anything that comes in mind to post them in my blog site.

Serving God through a Community

I will continue to serve God through The Feast and serving the attendees. I’ll continue to be Jesus to them and also to learn and nourish my soul through the teachings and talks from the community.

2017 will be my continuous nourishment for my body, mind and soul.

Time Off with Family

This will definitely be continued this year. Even though I’ll be working from home, I still to have bonding time with my family. This can be done through vacation time, quiet time, meal time and other fun-filled family activities that we can enjoy with as one big family.

It will still be a family year for me this year.

 So, those are my In-Progress goals for this year.

For my new goals, I wouldn’t say them as my new year’s resolutions because they may be continued whole year round and to the years to come.  Some of my new goals this year are the following:

Work from Home

I haven’t tried this one. Last month, I tried to set up my profile and proposals. So by this year, when my proposals are active or accepted, I can start working from the comfort of my home. My proposals vary from proofreading to software testing.

So 2017, I’ll be ready to work from home!

Prayer Time

I have to admit, I wasn’t consistent with my prayer time last year.

Last month, a friend gave me a 2017 Didache bible reflection book. With that, I was forced to pray and read it with the gospel reading. It pushed me to pray daily and to make it a habit the whole year round.

Savings and Investments

Since I will be doing work from home jobs this year, I wanted to start saving up for my future. Saving up for my appliances and furniture since my house will be done this year. So I wanna make sure that all the things inside are ready and fully furnished before moving in my new home.

Also, I wanted to invest on the mutual funds again. I stopped it last year due to some financial need. And also I wanted to try investing on the New York Stock Exchange. I still need to ask help from a friend on how to do this. With these investments, I can save up for my future and for any emergencies that may come this year.

Dance Lessons

I admit. I missed dancing.

So this year, I’ll go for dancing lessons. This will also enhance my theatrics skills as well. I’ll have to decide along the way what genre of dancing will I take up so I’m so excited for this year.

So 2017, I’ll be dancing along this year!

Violin Lessons

Hmmm...

I am thinking to take violin lessons this year.

It might be at the 2^nd half of the year or later this year. But the important thing is at least I can start doing lessons for violin. I really wanted to learn how to play the violin and it will take me a lot of time to make up for it.

Love life

Even though I was hurt last year, I’ll be a new leaf this year!

I’m ready whenever God will give me someone to be part of my life. I’ll have to do extra hard this year to get her and to be with her whoever she is.

2017 will be a love filled year for me! #fingerscrossed

That sums it all.

Based from the goals I’ve listed above, they are a lot to do and this year will be busy for sure.

Amidst all those goals, for sure, there’ll be temptations. So when those temptations come, I think of my goals and the things to do so that I can be busy and distract myself from getting tempted.

This is also one thing that I need to refrain from doing – temptations and sin.

I do hope that this year can make be busy in doing all my goals and not be distracted from all those temptations around me.

Have a blessed 2017!