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The birth of this blog: Failed goals and targeting new ones

 I haven't  written in a while. Well, written in a blog at least. But I just wanted to document what I have been doing to push for this goal this year.

Usually every year, for the lack of sense of accomplishment in my life, I would take an exam. It is my sort of "high" or sense of fulfillment in life. Kind of to fill a void that needs to be filled or whatever.

This year, what I planned for was to do a language certification exam. To be exact, it is the A2 diploma for French. Last year, I got the A1 for both French and Spanish.

But, covid 19 happened. And, we're all stuck at home since March. We're allowed to go out, but not as fully as we used to.

So, even though I prepared for the exam for French (taking A2 for Spanish is realllly pushing it as I haven't practiced the language in ages)but, it looks like there would be no exam to be given this year. The exam consists of having an oral and written examination. So, I guess it's quite difficult to undertake it given the current situation.

Now, why am I pushing for PMP?

Well,why not? It's what we use at work and gearing towards certification seems to be a nice goal.

So, my goal is that before 2020 ends, I should be a PMP. Not a pressure monitoring point, but a Project Management Professional.

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