do a 50'000 feet review of my life and where I want to go from here

..this is what I’ve thought of so far:

• Kick ass at work, get promoted to GM and earn a nice raise
• Continually aspire to be a better parent – spend more quality time with Ammar, block-book time for him to be spent any way he wants to
• Take care of my parents, not give them high blood pressure and spend more time at home
• Take up squash and speed walking, but take care of my knees too, since I’m still too young to bust them and bad knees are no fun!
• Maintain good relations with my siblings, even if they do annoy the hell out of me sometimes
• Be a great aunt to my nephews and niece
• Recreation-wise, spend more time outdoors, gardening, hiking, etc.
• Maintain close friendships with a select few, I’m not really a social queen bee, so a few close friends do more for my soul instead of an army of acquaintances
• Be open to possibilities in the romance department, not too judgmental and live in the present.. have fun dating! ;)
• Take better care of my health, not necessarily means losing as much weight in the shortest time, but to be mindful to my body and not treat it as if I have a spare one tucked in my closet!
• Travel and see the world, without fear nor prejudice
• Be more environmentally aware and eventually, own a hybrid car or no car at all! This requires huge advancements in our local transportation, but one can dream.. ;)
• Have less things but make more connections
• Discover more music that inspires me and rocks my world
• Be more spiritually connected, see God and the beauty of His grace in everything I do, hear, see, touch, taste, smell and read.

..when I admitted this to someone recently.

While I believe I am capable of doing a C-level job, I don’t think I want to. If I had to do it, it would be because of reasons bigger than my personal motivation. Probably a situation involving extremely dire consequences. Else, if I could, I’d avoid it altogether.

Now, that leaves me a few other things. But let me think about this a bit more.

I haven’t had the chance to do this yet, but someone kinda jumped the gun on me. While I thought initially that this goal would be my way of asserting some control over my future, a recent news (all good though) has required me to shift gears and get ready for a brand new challenge. It came out of nowhere and left me bewildered for the first few hours after I heard it. It’s definitely something big, but I can’t say much until everything is confirmed. I’ll dish more some time next week (keeping fingers crossed!).