2009 Resolutions

I read with interest over the past few days that people have blogged about their new year resolutions and how they intend to keep them.

Me? As far as I remember, I don't even have one as my plans don't seem to have a 1-year timeframe.

Nonetheless, it would be good to relook and renew some principles of living that I adhere once a while. They are:

1. Love and spend more time with my family
2. Strive (and hope) for good pay to sustain the family
3. Learn to be a better person everyday

Probably listed from highest to lowest priority.

Managing Conflict

I was caught in between a two-person (whose names cannot be revealed to protect their privacy) yesterday.

When two people have differing views (and vehemently sticking to them) and get into each other's path, it is inevitable that sparks will fly.

And it usually takes a third party to help (or forced to help) resolve it.

How the conflict is resolved by the third party will gauge the person's competency in dealing with relationships and can be a good gauge of the potential of his management skills.

I told my wife how I tried (emphasis on tried) to resolve this conflict and she was "relatively impressed" given the constraints that I had in dealing with it.