New Year's Resolution

I have been thinking about my new year's resolution for a while and now I think it is time for me to share it with everybody so that I and everybody else can hold me accountable for my goals this year. Frankly speaking, this is the first time that I have treated it so seriously. If I say it, I will achieve it.

For the year of 2012, I would like to achieve:

1. Update my LinkedIn profile by the end of January.
2. Get within 120lbs by the end of the year, post the second baby.
3. Pass GMAT test by the end of the year. (Originally I planned to take the test during my maternity leave, but was persuaded by my fellow book club members to take care of myself and my new baby first during this critical period of time. So the timeline was changed.)
4. Do one thing out of my comfort zone each week. I will follow up each week on the progress of this goal.

Would you care to share your new year's resolution?

Invitation to the Champions Workshop

Dear all,

I hope this email finds you well, especially when the biggest holiday for the Chinese people, the Chinese New Year, is right around the corner! I wish a happy and fruitful Year of Dragon to you and your family!

In this festive season, have you stopped and thought about what you will achieve in the year of 2012? What is your New Year’s Resolution? Even more, do you know where you are going to be in 5 years? If the answer to any of these questions is unclear, or you are not sure if you will achieve the results you wanted, then please read along as I truly believe this event can help.

I would like to share with you a journey that I have been enjoying since I attended an eye-opening event. I have to admit that if you had asked me the above questions one year ago, I would not have had answers ready for you. I would probably even avoid thinking about them since I believed I would figure it out along the way and the answers would come to me eventually. But the truth is if you do not actively seek out the BEST answers for you, you will never have them and it will take much longer, if not forever, for you to achieve them.

We are so busy doing what we think we have to do, day in and day out, and never had the chance to get around to being who we really want to be, doing what we really want to do, and having what we really want to have, in our career, our marriage, and our life. If this is the case, some changes are due.

I invite you to read my blog if you have the time and witness the changes that I have been experiencing so far. http://lucyscareerblog.blogspot.com/ I know I am far from perfect and I am still practicing and experiencing changes every day. It will be a life-long journey and I wish I had started much earlier. That is why I am sending this email to you hoping that you could start the journey too.

Please do not block out my message from your brain since I heard that little voice in your mind, “Who are you to tell me what to do? Do you think you are better than I am?” I promise you that would be my response if you had sent me an email like this one year ago, when I believed that I knew no less than anybody else. But I invite you to keep an open-mind and see what it is about first before judging anybody. Often times, we don’t know what we don’t know.

With all the suspense, let me introduce to you the Champions workshop provided by Klemmer & Associates (K & A) on Saturday Feb. 11th, 1-4PM in Milpitas.   

This upcoming Champions Workshop is a great way to get exposed to the programs.  I encourage you to sign up as soon as possible because the seats are limited and they only come to this area about once a year so that tickets are sold out fast.  Please check the link http://www.klemmer.com/workshop/results.asp?sid=3689 to purchase tickets online or contact me directly for tickets ($20 per ticket). You also get a free copy of the #1 Wall Street Journal Business Bestseller “Compassionate Samurai - Being Extraordinary in an Ordinary World” if you are among the first 100 to secure your seat.

Experience shows that this could be the best gift you give to yourself, your spouse, and the friends and work associates you like and care about in 2012. I am curious, would you be willing to trust my word for it and join me at the event?


Happy Holidays and wishing you a wonderful Year of Dragon!


To your better success and happiness,


Lucy

P.S. Come with your spouse – free daycare is provided for your children for supporting your growth!

P.P.S. Please believe me that sending this email to you was not easy for me and it counts towards my challenge to myself for this year – to do at least one thing out of my comfort zone each week! Thank you for reading this long email. J

To love is to accept

I had been trying to persuade my husband into attending the Personal Mastery Seminar by K&A for the past several months and did not succeed. After I came back from the kick-off party of the Redwood Forest Club (formed by several PM graduates) last night, I realized by how much the PM event could help both him and me and thus started another round of persuasion today.

After I enumerated all sorts of benefits and rewards that PM can bring, the answer I got was still a firm "NO". Some of his reasons seemed like excuses to me, some were even quite silly. I was about to lose my patience (as I "sometimes" do with my husband) and asked him," How come that you cannot just trust me and go? What will you lose if you go? You will have the chance to bash it unmercifully after you really get to know what it is. You can even accuse me of anything you want. (My husband was referring to it as a cult...)" He got a little emotional as well, "I just don't understand why I do not have the freedom to choose what I would like to do or not to do. I remember that you have told me many times that you do not like being told what to do. If so, why are you still forcing others to do what they don't like to do? Can't you understand that nobody likes being told or forced to do things? I have given you the freedom to attend whatever events you like. Can't you give me the freedom to choose too?"

All of a sudden, I had a revelation moment, just like the ones that I had during PM. My husband was right. I should not have imposed my ideas on him, even if I thought that they would benefit him. Everybody has their own logical thinking and reasoning and they would know themselves the best in the end. Maybe I really did not understand how much my husband was worried about me being 8-month pregnant and taking care of Guagua by myself if he went to the PM event. Maybe he really is at the stage where he knows what he wants and how he will get there and does not need too much outside help. I should be thankful that he is not just agreeing with whatever I say. After all, he is my husband, who has his own judgement. And, to me, I learnt the lesson that TO LOVE IS TO ACCEPT.

That is the end of the discussion, that is, until he sees some major positive changes in me (I guess).