Tuesday, October 26, 2004

visualizing objectives

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Last night, a friend of mine ask me about my “being different” concept. Asking more about wouldn’t it make me sick and tired pursuing my goals in life. And when I begin considering about people’s opinion about marital status?. These questions indeed not easy to answer, since for all these days I never consider about anything unnecessary except assemble my future. I do understand this questions, may come up caused by anxiety of being fall too deep into work routine and then might drive me into an old maid condition. At least, that’s the ultimate message she wants me to hear.
Last night, I still able argued that’s a premature worries upon me, and I shall not take this too personal. Since I’m still 25 and being an old maid at this age, is quite ridiculous thought and too premature. But it’s quite hard either to convince her, this way is perfectly safe for a woman by any chance. My “being different” concept is not too special actually, but it helps me a lot to assemble my potentials becoming a power to seize my objectives in life. Since right now competition is quite firm, we need to modify our potentials, behaviors, thoughts, and everything this world mostly need. There’s no doubt that diplomas are quite easy to get everywhere, so we have plenty of things to do. I think differentiate is one of the way out, but it took more effort to create. Something like starting with brief planning, certain objectives, and all resources we have to make us different from others, and then convince people why they should choose us not the other candidates. So far it’s work for me to gain any single step closer to my future intentions.
Visualize objectives is one of a step forward, on how we want to see our self for the next years, two years, 5, 10, 20, and so on. But I’d rather focus on the shortest term first, before going further. Thinking about what we would like to be on the next 20 years is more like a dream… I’d rather pour this dream into a shorter plan, this would make my way easier. But I don’t think anyone wants to hear my own personal plan, through my writings I just want to encourage people to dream, visualize their objectives in life, then start to make a plan.
And about personal matter, I believe that there’s no single woman really happy being alone. We can put this soulmate stuff as one our planning as well. In this case, pursuing our goals won’t jeopardize any of our social status either. Frequent worries about becoming career woman will sacrifice something we love, won’t happen if we put love and compassion beyond our stingy huge dreams. Keep those dreams down to earth by combining with that two magic words, and right now I want to share love and compassion to all people, and wait till the time My Lord send a kindhearted guardian angel.
Needless to say, I already visualize the kind of home that I want to live in, with what kind of people, and everything. This help me to create possibility thinking, and also make adaptations just in case it won’t work out perfectly the way I want it to be. But we will absolutely silly if dare to forget praying to God..we know God's plan is never worthless, so we only need to convince, why God should love us more..;)

note: to my friend, start small, achieve a little success, then spread out..:)


4 comments:

Tian Arief said...

pertanyaan orang2 ttg "kapan kamu menikah", memang sulit dihindari. tapi jodoh ada di tangan Tuhan. teruslah berkarya. salam kenal juga. :) silakan sering2 main ke tempatku. saya senang sekali kalau dewi juga meninggalkan "jejak".

tian arief

Rowena said...

I am the one holding the gun! *embarassed* Oh the silly things that kids will imitate from television eh? Regarding your post for today, it is always good to have dreams and visualize goals. A friend of mine suggested to also write a "grateful journal".....that is, at the end of each day, write down 5 things that you are most grateful for. I have a hard time deciding on only 5 things, but this daily journal is suppose to help you see the things that really, really most important to you.

I hope you are feeling better (I read about the loss of Furball and was quite upset). Terrible how people can think to shoot any animal just because they want to.

Michael, Ryan , Emily's Mommy said...

"Destiny" will answer that question, a world that you can give to your friend if they asking about your marital status. Nasib seseorang tuh berbeda dan kita nggak bisa menentukan kapan Jodoh itu datang untuk kita.
Jangan pernah berfikir kalau menikah akan membuat kamu menjadi "old maid", sebab tidak selalu begitu,
Wanita tidak selalu harus jadi pembantu meskipun hidup di Indonesia.Semuanya tergantung komunikasi kamu dengan pasangan hidup kamu Dew!, tapi melakukan sesuatu untuk orang orang yang kamu cintai tidak akan pernah terasa seperti slave or maid kok.
Btw, disini banyak dapat bumbu Indonesia kemasan yang mudah di racik( harganya sedikit mahal kalau di convert ke mata uang Indonesia ) dan karena komunitas Asia juga ada disini ( Chinese, India, Thailand, Vietnam ) yang punya pola dasar bumbu yang mirip dengan bumbu kita jadi mudah saja didapat.asal bisa tahu bentuk dan namanya dalam bahasa Indonesia.
Misalnya Jengkol ..kalau nggak pernah tahu bentuknya kita nggak akan tahu kalau nama Englishnya Dahendi Atau LOOG NEANG( vietnam), rupanya orang Vietnam suka banget bikin jengkol untuk lalapan( pickled ).
Juga sayuran lainnya. Hanya"kencur" atau Kunci yang cuman ada di Indonesia ( untuk sayur bening) sebab aku cari cari dari dulu nggak ada cuman ada bubuk itupun produksi Indonesia.
Michael makin gemuk dan lincah tante Dew, tapi dokter bilang tidak apa apa gemuk sekarang ntar juga kurus kalau dia banyak gerak,asal makanannya bergizi dan bukan Junk Food.

Stephen Newton said...

Dewi, I'm reading some of your older posts to understand who you are. Visualizing objectives is a very interesting post in many ways! I wish we had the opportunity to talk face to face. I think we would talk all day, because we do think alike.

I do something called "create my day" in the morning. That helps me for the very short term to achieve the kind of experiences I want to have.

These days I am thankful each day.