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What's in Store for 2023?


I hope everyone is enjoying the holiday season and fully recharged to face the new year. It's that time of year again, reflecting on goals that are designed to improve my well-being and social-being for the new year 2023. These goals are in the form of activities, tasks, or habits that are fun, measurable and feasible (don't boil the ocean) to achieve for a given period of time.

"If you don’t take care of your mind and body now, by the time you’re 40 or 50, you’ll be like a car that can’t go anywhere." Warren Buffet said.

I recently have started taking classes in Aviation, a beginning of my journey to becoming a private pilot. For 2023, I signed up for two more classes designed to provide hands-on operation to single engine airplane, including ground operations, flight maneuvers, airplane control, flight by reference to instruments, navigation, emergency procedures, and communications.

Moreover, I've been spending more time learning and deconstructing Gaddang, their origin, language structure and unique culture. 

Read 3 non-fiction books. This is my tentative list, 

  • What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
  • Grit
  • Brief Answers to the Big Questions, ... 

Exercise regularly, increasing endurance and toning muscles, keeping my cholesterol level and blood pressure in check by mixing up workouts- varying activities and intensities, running uphill, lifting weights for about 40 minutes, 3 to 4 times a week.

  • Run a Marathon (Athens, Los Angeles, Berlin, or Big Sur)
  • Compete in 5K race and place in the top 5

Consolidate finances. Over the course of my career, I have work for a number of big private corporations (AT&T, IBM, SAP, Northrop Grumman...), University of California San Diego and the US Government where I have contributed individually to retirement plan, resulting in numerous opened 401(k), 403(b) and TSP accounts.  My goal is to consolidate all these accounts into single provider making it more manageable.

Travel and enjoy new experiences, culture and food visiting Spain and Morocco around April and October, taking small trip around continental US and traveling to Canada and Mexico.

  • Support team USA in Solheim Cup 2023 in Malaga, Spain

Do more for the Filipinos, building sustainable infrastructure such as a low cost, sustainable self-cleaning portable community toilet and providing clean water on rural areas such as Bangan Hill in Bayombong where extreme poverty is quite rampant.

Participate in volunteer programs, building and refurbishing computers including laptops and tablets for low-income families and preparing and delivering meals to elderly around San Diego County.

Increase charity donation on education, health and social programs by 10 percent.

Stay competitive in today's younger and tech-savvy workforce, keeping job skills current and relevant and learning state of the art technologies in Analytics, Internet of Things, Cloud and Artificial Intelligence.

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