A few days ago I read the post 50 Things I Learnt This Year at My Life With IT and became inspired to make my own list of some of the things I’ve learnt. So, here it is. 

This year, I’ve learnt:

1. To live more in the moment.

2. To work smarter, not harder.

3. To get over my Starbucks coffee addiction.

4. To avoid time traps (like checking my email way too often or just surf the Internet without any specific reason).

5. That I feel better when I only eat vegan food.

6. To accept people as they are and not try changing them. The only person I can change is me.

7. To get rid of so called “energy takers” or “energy vampires”.

8. That the best way for me is to follow my heart and do what “feels right”, even if it’s not the most logical thing to do.

9. To travel lighter (I used to pack way too much clothes when travelling).

10. To see challenges as opportunities.

Some of all the zillion things I want to learn next year:

1. To speak French fluently.

2. To get better at Portuguese.

2. More HTML, so I can create my own blog and website.

3. PhotoReading.

4. Surfing.

5. Stepping out of my comfort zone more.

The Thinking Blog 1st anniversary giveaway is in its final round. From today you have five days to vote for the best Ruff PC review. My Fujitsu Siemens Amilo A1650G is quite worn out by now and a brand new water resistant laptop would have been a perfect Christmas present. Usually I’m pretty lucky when it comes to contests, but you can’t win them all.

I remember the first thing I ever won, a white cute teddy bear at the amusement park Liseberg when I was 7-years-old. I still have it in my room at home. In 9th grade I received 4000 SEK in an essay contest and a few weeks later I won a Greece guidebook for island lovers in a slogan contest. 

In high school I won Adobe Photoshop in a photography contest, and in January 2006, I was lucky to get the runners up prize of Vega’s Winterboost containing Echinacea, Propolis and Vitamin C from Healthy Soul. A couple of months later I won two great books in Newbie-Writers memoir contest. In September the same year I won a fabulous Refresh and Revive Pamper Day at Nutfield Priory’s Health and Leisure Club in Surrey. This year I won a cool iPod shuffle thanks to Travel Rants blog-a-thon challenge.  

I wonder who will take home this price. To place your vote, just go to The Thinking Blog.