And so we all go back to work

It's an interesting phenomenon the first day back after christmas and new year.  I find myself acutely aware of the 'treadmill' of life that a lot of us seem to be on.  There is a theory that a lot of people seem to break their new year's resolutions because they have no particular reason to make them, other than the tradition - no 'pain' has driven them to finally shed those last twenty pounds, or whatever. 

But I'm sure there are a lot of people out there thinking a little more than 'oh no, back to work after my nice long holiday'.  I'm sure there are some thinking 'is this what life is?' - a sequence of days spent in a building making money for someone else, punctuated by the odd trip to the seaside twice a year.  My that's an encouraging sentiment.  Sorry!

There's nothing worse than being stuck in a pattern.  Break your patterns.  I'm going to try and break mine this year.  Dramatically.

I have a great quote on my wall (yes, I have quotes on my wall!). 

"Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying.... whatever you want to do, do it now!  There are only so many tomorrows." - Michael Landon

I've not been the world's best at doing what he says but I'm working on it (by that I mean working on myself).

It's a weird experience writing these.  I don't know who I'm writing them to.  Perhaps to myself. 

I've just had an idea.  They say that once you come up with goals for yourself, the best way to commit to them is to announce them publicly so that the people around you (that's you if you're reading this) have read them and can make you keep to them. 

So my new year's resolution for 2009 is to come up with some proper goals.  Once I do, I'll post them on here and you can all help me by applying friendly pressure!

Happy new year all.  Another great quote I read somewhere was about not using a rear-view mirror to try and drive yourself into the future (drags own head to face forward).

Chin up for tomorrow morning (monday) - most of you reading this will have already got through it.  If you found it that bad maybe you should do something about it! 

Hugs

A

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Adam Smith

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