In true Bridget Jones style and putting Stephen Covey’s Seven Habits into practice, here’s my 2007 personal mission statement: I will buy a house, finish my PhD and will not get overworked. How? Well, I will:

1. finish reading the Seven Habits (still stuck at habit no. 5).

2. wait for a miracle to happen (hopefully described in habits 6-7).

3. failing the above, go to the gym and get in superhuman shape.

4. write a bunch of papers, stumble upon the house of our dreams, get a mortgage and be happy.

Now, that doesn’t seem too hard, does it? Happy New Year!

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