Today is New Years Eve – tomorrow the last day of the holidays. Once that is over, normal service will be resumed – and I have some interesting things to talk about over the next few days.
In my travels round various blogs over the last few days I’ve seen a lot of posts about plans and resolutions for the the coming year. I don’t do New Year resolutions – I’ve seen them place far too much of a burden on far too many people. For some people that burden can be so much that it breaks them. For me holiday periods, where I am away from the pc for much of the time, are times of thinking and considering about where next and what next. The turn of the year also makes it more of a time for reflection.
Time taken just to think is often seen as ‘wasted’ time by folks who like to be ‘busy, busy’ all the time and view their productiveness by the amount of mayhem they cause in their whirlwind of activity, or the length of their ‘To Do’ list. I do not subscribe to that theory. For me, thinking time is the most productive time. It allows me to focus, to work through to what really matters in life. We neglect that thinking time at our peril, it is so easy to become tied up in the process of what we are doing rather than why we are doing it. If that happens you lose your direction and eventually you become a creature of process rather than a human being – this can often be the end result of the Internet Addiction I spoke of a few days ago.
I have not changed my goals during this period of reflection – which pleased me, I would hate to think I had been on the wrong track! My plans have been tweaked, but not much, my ideas have been crystallized and I am grateful to have had the time to do that. I’m not going to rabbit on about what they are – that will be come plain as you read this blog over the next few months (you are subscribed, aren’t you?) and I have much to share as they develop.
In the meantime, I wish you all that you wish yourselves for the coming year and above all, I wish you peace.
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