My goals in 2022

Today is 28th Dec 2021, only few days left in 2021. I feel time fly. I don’t know how I live in 2021 and how many goals that set early 2021 were accomplished in this year. Perhaps, the end of 2020 and beginning of 2021, I just thought my goals that I want achieve in 2021, not written. For example, I want to speak English fluently, learn Chinese and I want to achieve better financial condition compare 2020. I think that is a little bit vague and not specific. So, today, I would like to deeply thinking about what I really want to accomplish in 2022, and what are I need to achieve those goals.

First of all, I would like to set several categories of my goals.

1. Better financial condition
2. Learning Language (English and Chinese)
3. More Read books
4. More connect with various people in online and offline both
5. More confidence
6. Have a empathy mindset more
7. Better financial condition

Perhaps, better financial condition is goal that everyone want to. All of us are dream economic freedom. But it is not easy to achieve. My goal of better financial condition is to start first step for economic freedom. I would like to start my own business before I’m 50 year old. It is left 4 years. Therefore, I willing to start analysis myself first, where I stay and what I have to prepare to start my own business. And then I will find my strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threats. If I know myself exactly, I think it is good first step to start my journey. The South Korean say that “do not follow the money, if you will follow the money, you will not earn the money.” I like this say. I would like to focus what is the right way to improve myself (work ability, insights, communication skill, language skills with mind of more humble, humanity, and empathy). I believe that the best and right way to achieve the better financial condition is improve myself.

2. Learning languages (English and Chinese)

Learning English and Chinese are my language goal. I never used English and Chinese in my whole time until 3 years ago. When I moved the current company, I suddenly had to use English in workplace, because my one of the tasks is that search new clients globally, communicate with overseas partner companies and search researches written English. Of course, there is colleague who is able to speak English well. But I felt if I could speak English fluently, it will be help to my work and company. So, I decided to start learning English. I registered online English course, find some language exchange app, and try to read news and books written English.

I have been studying English for over 3 years, I still feel very difficult and nervous when I use it, especially when I speak English such as call or video meeting.

And the reason why I started learning Chinese is that my company have several partners in China. I usually communicate with them by using English, but I think if I am be able to speak Chinese, it will be help to more close relationship each other. The period of I have been learning Chinese is over 1 year. It will be over 5~6 years until when I speak Chinese fluently, but I will keep studying Chinese consistently.

Here are my more specific action plans for my language goal.

• Read English book loudly every single day at least 30 minutes.
• Write blog in English at least 1 post a week.
• Try call with language exchange friends for 2 times a week.
• Keep online English and Chinese course once a week.
• Memorize 10 Chinese sentences a week.
• Try chat with Chinese language exchange 2 times a week.

3. More read books

Read books are really helpful to me in terms of 2 things. One is the available expand my perspective. I can learn a lot of knowledge through books such as other people’s perspectives, insights and new trends. Learning new things every day is really good for me. The other good thing is that I can practice English through read books written in English. Even though I’m still feel very difficult to read books written in English, but I will try and try read it. My goal is to read at one book once a month.

4. More connect with various people in online and offline both

Knowing new people is always bring to delight to me. I can learn a lot of things from people. Due to the Coronavirus pandemic, it is hard to meet people face to face, but many new online services are help with our connection between people. In 2022, I will try to have a more chance to meet people via online and offline both. I will try to communicate with online friends more and more, and call and make a appointments with friends, ex-colleagues and acquaintances more frequently.

5. More confidence

I always feel I need to improve my confidence at anywhere and anytime. Sometimes I feel my confidence is up and sometimes I feel my confidence is low. I feel that I need to believe myself more and have a more confidence in any situations and circumstances.

My personality is introvert so I think this personality is influence to my confidence. until last year, I’m tried change my personality more extrovert, but now I feel it isn’t necessary change my personality to have more confidence. The thing I need to have is that believe myself and take care myself. If I love and believe myself more and more, I think I can have a communicate with other people with more confidence and be able to work with more confidence at the workplace. Of course I make a lot of mistakes, but it is okay if I can see my mistakes directly and willing to learn new things from my mistakes. Do not let mistakes are lead to my less confidence. I will learn new things and opportunity to develop myself from my mistakes.

6. Have a empathy mindset more

Empathy will become more and more important in relationships with people — family, colleagues, employees and all people around us. Perhaps, empathy ability will become one of the most important things in our lives. Especially, in the workplaces, empathy will become one of the essential parts for company’s succeed.

Nowadays, I thinking about how to improve empathy ability? It is the easy just think I will have a empathy more, but when I adjust it in real life, it is very hard to me because I often forget empathy during I conversation with other people. After I finish the conversation with other people, I realized the words or sentences when I used last conversation were incorrect and moreover perhaps, other people felt bad impression or hurt due to the my words.

Therefore, recently I trying to reflect my words or sentences during the day, and then review is there any things that do I need to change. I think that if I keep this way every single day, I can improve a little bit improve my empathy ability. And I will trying to search more effective way to improve my empathy ability.

These are my goals in 2022. I will do my best to accomplish these my goals.