Goals / Passion 2017

As covered in my earlier post too..
This year I'm not going to set Goals. As I have tried setting Goals for past few years. I could achieve some of them. But never found enough motivation to achieve all or majority of them. So I'm going to hit the nail on its head and set my goal as the same thing which is lacking all those years.
PASSION
The issue however is that I'm not a passionate person at all by nature. I have always been a very aloof person. I could not any passion work pursuing at all. So as a great speaker has said (in Tedex) "Fake it till you become it". I'm going to create my passions for me. In fact on second thoughts, this does not seems so absurd a notion. I think the goals that I keep on setting year and year and somehow reflection of my passion only. Its just that I'm so trapped in the rat-race that these passions are buried somewhere deep inside.

So without much ado (Since I don't want to spend whole of 2017 in planing to plan only). Here are my goals aka Passions.

Physical Health

• Reducing weight, target range 70 - 72 : My current wt stands at 76.5 kg. So that around 5-7 kg weight loss or roughly 10% reduction.
• Participate in Delhi half marathon : Brisk walking / running is one of the fitness activity I can indulge in more often as per my convenience. But my ultimate goal is to participate in half marathon. And I live in Delhi so Delhi half marathon is the best bet for me. Another convenient thing is that its normally scheduled in end of year making it best suited for new year resolution.
• Weight training : I would really like to bulk up specially in arms. Hence I plan to follow weight training also Even though following this along with weight reduction is tough.
• Yoga / Paranayam : For past many years. I'm constantly trying to follow my fitness related goals. Unfortunately there are not much results to show off. The only positives are that I have managed to stop my weight and waistline from deteriorating and almost eliminated my back pain issues. The negative on the other side is that it has been all about physical fitness, abs, muscle. Leaving the other aspects behind. Even though I believe and sometimes practices meditation and have done bit of Yoga in school. Still this area is more of less neglected one. This year I plan to follow Yoga regularly.

Mental Health

• Blogs : Well that what I'm doing right now. I plan to keep up with blogging and improve it further both qualitatively and quantitatively. Target is 12-15 post.
• Books : I love reading books, Hence its one of the goals I achieve very easily. However this year I will go for quality instead of quantity only. One of my target is classics provided they are easy to read. Target is 12-15 boooks
• Writing my own book : Yes I still nurture this madness in-spite of having encountered writers block many times last year. How and when I'm going to do this; I don't know. But I plan to at-least write first draft for my book this year.
• Recreation : I wanted to be able to play one musical instrument and my choice is Guitar. I have an on and off try on this earlier but could not go very far. You would find this in my new years list. This year I can get it off the block (Hopefully)