Right now is the first time in this year when I opened google reader and found one interesting post Where Do You Want to Be In a Year? by Tim Barcz. When I read it I realized that I had read book The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People also.

In general all books on Success says that you need to “Begin with the end in mind“, this means that you must have your plan.

At first you need to find out you goal for whole life. That is your target and main thing you need to get. Then you need to do breakdown of tasks you need to accomplish in your life, having them in few levels of term scope like 10 years term, 5 years term and 1 year term… and so on. So question:

Where Do You Want to Be In a Year?

My answer: 

By the end of 2010 I want:

1. Get Microsoft Certification:
  * MCTS (Exams: 70-536 and 70-505)
  * MCPD 70-563 and 70-565 (this one is big fish, but I need such!)
2. Read at least 24 books.
3. Become known employee in my company, sharing knowledge and doing presentations, so will have much more authority among co-workers.
4. Familiarize with Java and contribute research and development work to Kohonen Maps world.
5. to be Senior Developer and continue growing…
6. Improve my English skills to have at least upper-intermediate strong level (according to my company graduating)
7. Gather good capital and looking for investments of money.

Write down your answer in comments or give me link to your blog!