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Image from thebehappyproject's IG I am a person who is OBSESSED WITH GOALS. When I say in my resume that I am goal-oriented, it's something that is sincerely coming from my heart and not just something I write to impress employers. And if there's something I love more than coming up with new goals, it is listing them down. I don't want to get into details, but I am a crazy list lady. My colleagues at work can attest to it. In a  blog post I wrote two years ago , I mentioned about this research on how people who list down their goals are 33% more likely to achieve them. I even tried to prove the power of lists by showing you my goals that year, which were mostly achieved before year-end without noticing it. And if that isn't convincing enough, my friends, it happened again in 2015. For the nth time, I did not even realize that most of my goals had already been achieved. Not until I cleaned my room a few days before New Year's and found the list I wrote (u...

Photo by Live Life Happy If you've been reading my blog, around Thanksgiving (Canadian), I wrote about how thankful I am about the change I've seen in my dad. Yes, he's changed for the better.  He used to worry a lot, which in turn, attracted a lot of negativity. Please don't think that I'm saying that my dad is not a nice person. He has many good qualities, but all of us have flaws that tend to sometimes overshadow the goodness in us.  After lending him and reading a self-help book written by a Christian author, which was given to me as a gift on my birthday, we have seen his sincere effort to change and become a more positive person. He smiles a lot now (which makes him look 20 years younger, we told him!), and is more open to conversing with other people and does not think that spending time with others to catch up / chat is a waste of time. He socializes more, in short. We used to argue a lot as well (because I'm a Virgo and I like pointing out thin...