As we near the end of the year 2007, we usually go through some reflections for the purpose of preparing oneself for the coming New Year.

Many of us would write goals and resolutions and perhaps one of them would be better time management.

Just think about your previous resolutions, any of them achieved? Do we blame our poor time management for goals not achieved?

I recently discovered that time management is an oxymoron. According to Einstein, quoted by John Maxwell in his book, Today Matters, “[Time] cannot be managed. You can’t save time, lose time, turn back time or have more time today than tomorrow. It moves forward regardless of circumstances and in the game of life it creates a level playing field for everyone.”

We can’t manage time, we can only manage our priorities. And for the limited time we have we have to choose our priorities and determined or resolve what to focus and what to let go.

There is a Chinese author Lin YuTang that said “Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists of the elimination of the nonessentials.”

According to the same book, most goals are not achieved because we spend too much time doing second things first – the non-essentials.

As I look at my current commitments and the goals that I want to achieve, I have resolve that from 2008 onwards I will be focusing my thoughts and writings on weightier matters – the essentials.

That is why I have deposited all the previous Josh Incorrigible! entries to another site (of which place I will email to my present subscribers), which will not be updated but merely acts as a repository.

I have also been slowly reducing and removing postings that doesn’t gel with my overall new theme and goal for my blog over the last few weeks. A sort of spring cleaning you might say to remove the ‘dirt’ or so called ‘undesirables’ from my blog. (Read this link to know what is ‘undesirable’)

Influenced by what i witnessed and felt during the recent public rallies as well as from encounters with many young Malaysians, I sensed that there is a growing number of Malaysians who are patriotic, principled and passionate about seeing positive change for this country. They represent the new generation who view themselves first as Malaysians - not in terms of their race or religion first.

This new generation however is hearing many contending voices for their minds and hearts.

One loud voice is the voice of the mainstream media (MSM) which is read and believed by the majority of the citizens to be the only truth. Although it is the predominant source of information and truth for many adults over 40, it still holds a powerful position as a source of what seems to be “legitimate”. Many however discover that it almost always paints a beautiful picture of the present government while spinning negative news to its own end.

Then there is the growing voice of the online media – blogs. The growing voices are mainly youths with Internet access and adults who are Internet savvy. These are voices that contend with the MSM by exposing lies and news spin, and to offer their perspectives about the nation. More often than not, what is written can be rather negative, cynical and offers no hope.

There is yet another voice. One that is more difficult to hear amidst the noise, busyness and pace of this life. It is the voice that offers hope and eternal perspectives. It is a voice that have often unheard of in the political realm.

Through this blog, I would like to encourage and inspire this new generation of Malaysians to a view this nation from this perspective - what i term a cross-over perspective.

Thank you for spending your previous time reading and leaving your comments on my blog so far. With this new focus, my hope is that your time spent on reading my blog will be beneficial.

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