One thing I heard from my manager that I will never forget is the word – “Follow Up”. Not because it is any important but because he almost always scream the word to me. 🙂

However that word really is one of the most important word in management. You want to be a manager, you have to practise the word. You start a project, you will need to do follow up even though your project had been 2 years completed. Check through if there are any complication, arising issue, hidden problem etc.

And once you’ve done that, plan your immediate action to address the problem and finetune the whole operation.

Lastly.. can you guess what’s the next thing to do? You guess it right.. Follow up again.

It is with great pleasure however, for me to announce that the above description is actually just an introduction to today’s post.

I actually want to ask you this question. How’s that 2008 Resolution going?

Some had resolve to lose some weight, some may want to start a new hobby. Mathematically speaking, we should actually be 1/12 successful with the resolution by February 1st. So what about you guys? If you can put a percentage on your resolution achievement, what percentage would that be?

A working example – your 2008’s resolution is to save $6000 as your emergency fund. And after checking on February 1st, the amount saved is $400. You can now say that your resolution is now 6.7% achieved. Congratulation! 🙂

I’m sure you know where I’m going with this one. The most important step is NOT the percentage of achievement. It can be 0% or 10%. The most important step is actually “FOLLOW UP”. We need to check back every now and then on the progress of our resolution.

The progress can be positive or negative, no matter. But when we follow up we will know our status and hopefully after that we can structure our plan to get back on track.

– I wonder –
What’s your resolution’s achievement percentage?

————- Personal Note ———–
It’s sad, but I have to say that my percentage is almost zero. It’s not a total zero, since some of the resolution involves this blog progress. And I’m quite happy with that now.

Next week will be going to be busy busy busy. I will drive back to Kedah (about 550km from here) and start the preparation for DaPocket’s wedding. I will be official photographer of the event. Need to brush up my skills then 🙂

It’s that time again to recap what has been discussed here in January 2008. What a great start it has been. 🙂

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Blog’s progress

• The blog had been redesigned on the 17th. It had undergone a few design in its entire life, but so far.. I’m the happiest with this one. Unless something go horribly wrong, I will stick to this one 🙂
• If you notice, there is a check button just below the “SUBMIT COMMENT” button with the option to notify you of followup comments via email. I’m sure most of you are already familiar with it, but for the benefit of those who don’t.. if you check the button and submit your comment, you will receive any new comments to the post via your email, which generally mean you will not be left out in the discussion. Try it.. Of course you can unsubscribe anytime you want via the email

Monthly’s Personal Note
Brought the mrs for a baby scan and for the first time seeing my baby. He/She is so active almost like waving to me. 🙂 The doctor was almost certain that she’s a she.. I haven’t stopped smiling since 🙂

My mother’s BP had reduced to 130/90 which is still on the high side but clearly an improvement. Alhamdulillah

Conclusion
It has been an exciting month. A very good start in 2008. February is going to be even more interesting especially with the biggest event of all, DaPocket’s wedding on the 8th of February.

Allow me to be the first to congratulate you on this 🙂 “Selamat Pengantin Baru!”