One-year anniversary of the blog
When I wrote my last blog, I realised the one-year anniversary of this site is approaching. It was a bit surprising to me at the time for two reasons. One is that how time flies as always, and the other is that I have actually continued to write it for a year.
I started this site in a hope to record my thoughts. That purpose has been well achieved. A lot of things happened in this year: breaking up, moving to a new country, picking up a new language, making new friends, working with new clients, doing public speech on a bigger stage, camping for the first time in my life. There has been so much going on, and I totally liked all of them.
Just today I realised I have spent 824 minutes on Drops to learn Thai language. I have just been using my phone a bit and never thought I have gone this far. But when I look back to 9 months earlier, my Thai has really leaped to a different level. These pockets of time can generate great power.
This is the year that I put the focus back on myself. I start to understand it is unwise to risk myself to fix problems caused by other people. The other day I was thinking the case of a rougue trader in SocGen Jérôme Kerviel . He broke the rule to achieve the unrealistic KPI from their leaders. Apparently the leaders pretended blind so the work can be done. Such system has been working for a lot of people. Just this man went a bit way too further, and almost caused the bankruptcy of the whole bank. Sadly, he was the one who went to jail because it was him who was found guilty. This is my epiphany. If something is not right, we must report. It is not to be the bad guy. It is to protect ourselves. If the goal is unrealistic, let it fail. Being too responsible will wear ourselves off and cover up the issue, and most tragically, the ones who caused the issue can simply lay back and chill. I recognise my strength and weakness. There are things I can do; there are things I could do, but I should choose not to; and there are also things I just can’t do. This is the year I reconcile with myself at work. Looking back my career, I am glad I am finally reaching here.
This year I have also made a lot of friends, while keeping some people away. I can’t make everyone like me, and I can’t like everyone either. People come people go. It is my blessing to still have my best friends around me.
I tend to wrap up this blog with a new year resolution, but I think it’s still too early, and I haven’t got something in my mind. Maybe I don’t really want any new year resolution anymore. If I have something in my plan, I will say probably I will get a Salesforce certification. Funny enough, I thought I don’t like certification, but I am clearing becoming a person who learn from the process of being certified. Don’t know how my work will turn out to be next year. Let’s go and see!
p.s. thanks Steven and Amanda for proofreading