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A New Year!


It's the 10th of January and this is my first post for 2011. Time did not permit me much last year to update the blog regularly. I hope this year of the rabbit will be more kind.

I expect new things this year and I am working on it. I will be turning 40 and it may be a cliche' but I would like my life to start anew. Now that I have seen and realized my true passions, I will devote my time pursuing them. It will entail painful separations and difficult adjustments but with faith and perseverance, I am positive that it will be a breeze.

Family remains to be the number one priority. I hope and pray that a junior will come along this year. We will work on that. The girls are growing fast and I need to catch up with them. My wife is not getting any younger either so I need to maximize my time spent with her. Another grandchild is also about to be born reminding me that I have really come of age. There's no stopping it.

By third quarter of the year, I will be finished with my MBA subjects and will just have to do the StraMa paper for completion of the academic requirements. Then I am done. I will be a master in business, theoretically and literally, but hopefully, practically.

I am now at a career crossroad again. I will have to choose if I will go forward with my executive job, or go back to the path of clinical practice, or take other corporate roads that will also allow me to be a tooth and ENT doctor. I hope and pray that the decisive move will happen as I race with the metal rabbit.

The wheel of change moves on and I have no choice than to follow. Continuing what I am doing may give me roots, but changing it will give me branches. The more the branches, the wider and the higher scope I will be able to reach.

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