Friday, December 16, 2011
Christmas Craziness
Most unnerving road sign I've ever seen ... while driving home late last night on the M25 (Interstate) the vari-speed signs flash up a speed limit of 20mph which non-plussed me until I saw the associated notice of "Oncoming Vehicle" ... that certainly makes you pay more attention to the road when you're doing 80!
Friday, December 9, 2011
Steel Wheels through the Night
Yesterday does indeed seem so faraway (and quelle cliché) following an evening flit from London to France. A weekend planned for sometime finally arrived with us zipping up to London St Pancras, shown in all it's gothic splendour below.
For it is from here that the Eurostar sets forth taking these young lovers with it. No not us obviously.
And lo 90 minutes later we disembarked in Lille, France.
So far nothing much to report, a marché Noël, du vin, du pain et du Boursin (fromages of several types actuellement). Tres enjoyable.
Bonne journée to all out there.
TIOT's about
For it is from here that the Eurostar sets forth taking these young lovers with it. No not us obviously.
And lo 90 minutes later we disembarked in Lille, France.
So far nothing much to report, a marché Noël, du vin, du pain et du Boursin (fromages of several types actuellement). Tres enjoyable.
Bonne journée to all out there.
TIOT's about
Tuesday, November 29, 2011
Small Victory: Bus
Small victory: missed the bus, ran three stops to catch it up - YES! Then got off two stops later as I had to pick up dinner (Doh!). But I caught it...
Wednesday, September 21, 2011
Oyo Como Va
A few days here and such has been the feel of work and home life lately that it's not been till today (Wednesday) that I have felt on holiday. Too much going on and a lost perspective, so much so that I couldn't shake a feeling of being out of step and nothing seemed quite right.
This makes no sense when you look at the big picture, being away, not having to work for a week, in an astonishing part of the world, food and wine that leaves you goggle eyed, style and passion showing on every street and in every window plus great company to share it with. So today was about losing perspective on food, clothes, time, money and todo lists.
This manifested itself in many ways: indulging in Italian coffee (consistently the best I have drunk); sampling a range of pasticceria (pastry shops) and their associated comestibles; shopping for wine and balsamic vinegar; a simple but great lunch of fusilli with melanzane (and wine); some Italian fashion (bought some jeans) and window shopping; wandering the old cobbled streets not worrying where they took us; doing a gelato test (passed with flying colours) and then taking a pause before evening events start a whole new set of indulgences.
Not a great story if you don't experience it yourself so this is more about capturing a note for me and trying to remember to live in the moment.
Some lack of perspective via a few pictures I've taken while here...
The Alfa Romeo (the rental car, I wish), looking good in Bellagio
A denim (!) bikini, looks good anywhere
Glance through an archway and you catch glimpses of another time. Not out of place here or as a set of a Harry Potter film.
Il Lago Di Como Itself...
TIOT's twin
This makes no sense when you look at the big picture, being away, not having to work for a week, in an astonishing part of the world, food and wine that leaves you goggle eyed, style and passion showing on every street and in every window plus great company to share it with. So today was about losing perspective on food, clothes, time, money and todo lists.
This manifested itself in many ways: indulging in Italian coffee (consistently the best I have drunk); sampling a range of pasticceria (pastry shops) and their associated comestibles; shopping for wine and balsamic vinegar; a simple but great lunch of fusilli with melanzane (and wine); some Italian fashion (bought some jeans) and window shopping; wandering the old cobbled streets not worrying where they took us; doing a gelato test (passed with flying colours) and then taking a pause before evening events start a whole new set of indulgences.
Not a great story if you don't experience it yourself so this is more about capturing a note for me and trying to remember to live in the moment.
Some lack of perspective via a few pictures I've taken while here...
The Alfa Romeo (the rental car, I wish), looking good in Bellagio
A denim (!) bikini, looks good anywhere
Glance through an archway and you catch glimpses of another time. Not out of place here or as a set of a Harry Potter film.
Il Lago Di Como Itself...
TIOT's twin
Location:Como, Italia
Sunday, May 1, 2011
Checkpoint Return
So here I am after the trip checking back in. A great holiday (more to come on that) but the key issue related to diet was that I gained 4 pounds. The food was wonderful and eating to the rules was difficult and also seemed a bit crazy with all that France offers.
Tuesday, April 26, 2011
Wownd the wugged wocks
So it may be the south of France but it's not hot and the bathing belles on the beach all have wet suits on.
We are now in Biarritz and spent a day wandering the quiet (Easter Monday) streets, enjoying stumbling across little discoveries of shops, alleys, beaches and views.
It's a great town with a lot too it and a lot nearby. The beach front is absorbing with the mix of old and new buildings, the great sandy beaches and the way the sea rolls in and bounces off the rocks. It's not been stormy but there is plenty of wave action for the surfers who range across all ages and skills. There is plenty of evidence of sea misadventures too though it's not yet been clear enough for us to climb the lighthouse. Something for the weekend sir!
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We are now in Biarritz and spent a day wandering the quiet (Easter Monday) streets, enjoying stumbling across little discoveries of shops, alleys, beaches and views.
It's a great town with a lot too it and a lot nearby. The beach front is absorbing with the mix of old and new buildings, the great sandy beaches and the way the sea rolls in and bounces off the rocks. It's not been stormy but there is plenty of wave action for the surfers who range across all ages and skills. There is plenty of evidence of sea misadventures too though it's not yet been clear enough for us to climb the lighthouse. Something for the weekend sir!
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Monday, April 25, 2011
Dune du Pyla
The biggest sand dune in Europe...pretty astounding at approx 100 metres high at its peak, 500m wide and 2k long with a forest on one side and the Atlantic ocean on the other.
The dune is slowly engulfing the edge of the forest as sand is driven out of the ocean into this giant heap.
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The dune is slowly engulfing the edge of the forest as sand is driven out of the ocean into this giant heap.
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Sunday, April 24, 2011
Checkpoint
So 12 weeks in to my change of diet I am 24 pounds lighter than my starting point. My losses lately are slow and thats ok, as long as I am losing its worth it.
However, this Saturday we left on a trip so the note above is a reminder of where I got to in case I get too far off the rails!
We are now in France and eating per diet is a) difficult with all the incredible produce, baked goods and coffee and b) a missed opportunity to savour a rich part of the countries culture. The plan is therefore to balance the two needs, not go crazy but enjoy what is on offer within reason.
After a mad morning of packing at home we hit the train, plane and automobile literally. A train to Gatwick (35 minutes), flight to Bordeaux (1 hour 15 minutes) and drove to near Arcachon (45 minutes) for an over night stay before we will move further south.
Our over night was at a Quality Suites (I can almost hear the intake of breath but check it out below). It was brand new with a restaurant attached. And wild and interesting it was too, all white plastic and purple neon.
We were too tired to stray far and so hit the hotel restaurant which was past the wine tasting cave (I kid you not) behind a silver curtain. I stress I was not on anything though I did feel I should be. We were welcomed, seated outside (in the car park patio) for a pre dinner glass of wine and gazed out at the industrial estate we had found the place in.
Once to food, the scenery mismatch continued with my enjoying foie gras (sorry Angela) for the first time and brochette de coqulet while M had white asparagus with a green asparagus coulis and then cotelette d'agneau all of which was lovely. Though pleasantly replete we couldn't resist our waiters suggestion to try the strawberries with strawberry and mint jelly and strawberry mousse/foam and needless to say it was incroyable.
All I can say is if you want quality stay at the Quality Suites in teste-la-buch...yeah I know, even the name of the town sounds like I am making this shtuff up. But look it up if you don't believe me.
Till the next time, I'm out.
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However, this Saturday we left on a trip so the note above is a reminder of where I got to in case I get too far off the rails!
We are now in France and eating per diet is a) difficult with all the incredible produce, baked goods and coffee and b) a missed opportunity to savour a rich part of the countries culture. The plan is therefore to balance the two needs, not go crazy but enjoy what is on offer within reason.
After a mad morning of packing at home we hit the train, plane and automobile literally. A train to Gatwick (35 minutes), flight to Bordeaux (1 hour 15 minutes) and drove to near Arcachon (45 minutes) for an over night stay before we will move further south.
Our over night was at a Quality Suites (I can almost hear the intake of breath but check it out below). It was brand new with a restaurant attached. And wild and interesting it was too, all white plastic and purple neon.
We were too tired to stray far and so hit the hotel restaurant which was past the wine tasting cave (I kid you not) behind a silver curtain. I stress I was not on anything though I did feel I should be. We were welcomed, seated outside (in the car park patio) for a pre dinner glass of wine and gazed out at the industrial estate we had found the place in.
Once to food, the scenery mismatch continued with my enjoying foie gras (sorry Angela) for the first time and brochette de coqulet while M had white asparagus with a green asparagus coulis and then cotelette d'agneau all of which was lovely. Though pleasantly replete we couldn't resist our waiters suggestion to try the strawberries with strawberry and mint jelly and strawberry mousse/foam and needless to say it was incroyable.
All I can say is if you want quality stay at the Quality Suites in teste-la-buch...yeah I know, even the name of the town sounds like I am making this shtuff up. But look it up if you don't believe me.
Till the next time, I'm out.
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Sunday, April 17, 2011
More spring
Past their best but still quite incredible colours on a quiet Sunday morning...and yes the clock is wrong except for twice a day.
TIOT
TIOT
Saturday, April 16, 2011
Noticed that...
...spring had arrived a couple of weeks ago but the blossom on the trees is amazing. Maybe I am older and so notice different things or the UK is warmer earlier but the colours are amazing. This doesn't do it justice but it's all I have got for now. More as I have it.
TIOT
TIOT
Tuesday, April 5, 2011
Dynamic Blog views for those interested
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Wednesday, March 23, 2011
Saturday, March 19, 2011
5.40am
...woke up, got out of bed, dragged a comb across my head (with apols to The Beatles).
Yep, the last few weeks my habit of a lifetime of being a late riser seems to have changed and, shockingly, I am really enjoying it.
In an existence that is constant 'noise' and hurly burly it's really incredible to see streets with no traffic, a handful of people and get a moment to think rather than react. It's almost like meditating and I feel more at one with life and the world than the rest of the day.
That's getting mighty philosophcal for a boy from a small village in the middle of the midlands with no aspirations or direction (and that's a whole other issue for another time).
Right now as I type this I can feel my pulse in my body (the left foot oddly) which is rather surreal. I am either suffering a high blood pressure moment (more than possible) or just more attuned to things than I have been before.
I hate to say my change of diet is the cause of much of this change in my life but I suspect it is the catalyst. I get up earlier to ensure I eat early to get my body up and running. I sleep better at nights. I walk the two miles home from work - just enough to get work out of my system. And I eat less processed food and think my body is running a little smoother for it (as judged by the items above and my DGW day - see below).
Today is Saturday, my diet 'off' day or DGW day (Diet Gone Wild - terminology courtesy of Tim Ferriss' The Four Hour Body...UK readers google Girls Gone Wild though not if of a sensitive disposition). So today I have already had oatmeal for breakfast, a flat white coffee (might explain me noticing my pulse) and some chocolate (none of which make the dietary 'allowed' list). And it should be noted that by the end of DGW day, as much as I have craved some item of food, I usually feel a little sickly and out of sorts by end of day. Maybe due to over doing it or perhaps the 'fast carbs' but as much as it may be that I think it's also a reaction to so much processed stuff after a less processed week.
Whatever the diet is doing re my weight it is changing other aspects of my life which can only be good. For the first time in a long time I feel like anything is possible and its just a matter of time before I make things happen (no clue what 'things' are though) for myself. This may be false logic but any positive feel has to be good in a life that feels very grey from day to day where it is a push to get from sleep to work to home to sleep. That pattern too will change for a more postive one.
Crazy to attribute all this to diet perhaps but my total loss of 16 pounds (7 weeks in) feels such a huge jump in the right direction even though it is a small amount of the total I need to move. My rate of change has dropped drastically and this last week has been a slog as with no ongoing movement it is tougher to stay focussed. However, having come this far I can not slip back especially with the other aspects of life that seem to be being pulled along in the wake of the weight loss.
So this week I have yoyoed on the diet ending the week where I started after an up blip. Not great for motivation but serving to re-focus my mind and feel for what I need out of this.
Along with the yoyo something else I realised this week is that this goal is finally a need as opposed to a want. Maybe that is why I have been able to stay on track much as my mind has said, what harm is a milky coffee, an oatmeal for breakfast, a potato with my lunch. But for me there are no half way houses with food, my milky coffee would be a slippery slope and I have to remember that. The recognition of this being a need not a want has helped me a lot. I need to lose weight, as I need to feel better about myself, need to feel healthier, need to see if this weans me off medication, need to put less stress on my knee joints, etc. There are a hundred more of these things that I have wanted to realise the benefit of but now, I need it.
So my goal is still to lose 20 pounds and then see where life takes me, as the journey so far is matching the need to reach the destination. And perhaps more than anything it is sinking in that the journey means more than the destination...with the life as much as the diet.
Till the next time that the journey meets my journal
TIOT
Yep, the last few weeks my habit of a lifetime of being a late riser seems to have changed and, shockingly, I am really enjoying it.
In an existence that is constant 'noise' and hurly burly it's really incredible to see streets with no traffic, a handful of people and get a moment to think rather than react. It's almost like meditating and I feel more at one with life and the world than the rest of the day.
That's getting mighty philosophcal for a boy from a small village in the middle of the midlands with no aspirations or direction (and that's a whole other issue for another time).
Right now as I type this I can feel my pulse in my body (the left foot oddly) which is rather surreal. I am either suffering a high blood pressure moment (more than possible) or just more attuned to things than I have been before.
I hate to say my change of diet is the cause of much of this change in my life but I suspect it is the catalyst. I get up earlier to ensure I eat early to get my body up and running. I sleep better at nights. I walk the two miles home from work - just enough to get work out of my system. And I eat less processed food and think my body is running a little smoother for it (as judged by the items above and my DGW day - see below).
Today is Saturday, my diet 'off' day or DGW day (Diet Gone Wild - terminology courtesy of Tim Ferriss' The Four Hour Body...UK readers google Girls Gone Wild though not if of a sensitive disposition). So today I have already had oatmeal for breakfast, a flat white coffee (might explain me noticing my pulse) and some chocolate (none of which make the dietary 'allowed' list). And it should be noted that by the end of DGW day, as much as I have craved some item of food, I usually feel a little sickly and out of sorts by end of day. Maybe due to over doing it or perhaps the 'fast carbs' but as much as it may be that I think it's also a reaction to so much processed stuff after a less processed week.
Whatever the diet is doing re my weight it is changing other aspects of my life which can only be good. For the first time in a long time I feel like anything is possible and its just a matter of time before I make things happen (no clue what 'things' are though) for myself. This may be false logic but any positive feel has to be good in a life that feels very grey from day to day where it is a push to get from sleep to work to home to sleep. That pattern too will change for a more postive one.
Crazy to attribute all this to diet perhaps but my total loss of 16 pounds (7 weeks in) feels such a huge jump in the right direction even though it is a small amount of the total I need to move. My rate of change has dropped drastically and this last week has been a slog as with no ongoing movement it is tougher to stay focussed. However, having come this far I can not slip back especially with the other aspects of life that seem to be being pulled along in the wake of the weight loss.
So this week I have yoyoed on the diet ending the week where I started after an up blip. Not great for motivation but serving to re-focus my mind and feel for what I need out of this.
Along with the yoyo something else I realised this week is that this goal is finally a need as opposed to a want. Maybe that is why I have been able to stay on track much as my mind has said, what harm is a milky coffee, an oatmeal for breakfast, a potato with my lunch. But for me there are no half way houses with food, my milky coffee would be a slippery slope and I have to remember that. The recognition of this being a need not a want has helped me a lot. I need to lose weight, as I need to feel better about myself, need to feel healthier, need to see if this weans me off medication, need to put less stress on my knee joints, etc. There are a hundred more of these things that I have wanted to realise the benefit of but now, I need it.
So my goal is still to lose 20 pounds and then see where life takes me, as the journey so far is matching the need to reach the destination. And perhaps more than anything it is sinking in that the journey means more than the destination...with the life as much as the diet.
Till the next time that the journey meets my journal
TIOT
Tuesday, March 1, 2011
Check in
Four weeks in to the diet and I have lost 13 pounds. Rate of loss has dropped so I am tying to stay focussed. Allegedly between 4 and 6 weeks the rate of loss should pick up again. As yet this is pending, assumng it is the case.
Per the book - The Four Hour Body - I need to experiment a bit more on what is working so I understand more about the process and my own body as everyone is a little different. For example, drinking black coffee, black tea and herbal tea has definitely worn thin so I need to find a viable alternate to throw in to the rotation. All suggestions welcome (lol).
However, 4 weeks in and 13 pounds down is not to be sniffed at.
TIOT's twin
Per the book - The Four Hour Body - I need to experiment a bit more on what is working so I understand more about the process and my own body as everyone is a little different. For example, drinking black coffee, black tea and herbal tea has definitely worn thin so I need to find a viable alternate to throw in to the rotation. All suggestions welcome (lol).
However, 4 weeks in and 13 pounds down is not to be sniffed at.
TIOT's twin
Tuesday, February 15, 2011
Briefly
No further weight loss, in fact I gained a pound. My eating habits are essentially unchanged so I am working to identify why I have plateaued and if I am taking in some fast carbs without knowing it.
Total weight loss 8 pounds in 15 days
TIOT's twin
Total weight loss 8 pounds in 15 days
TIOT's twin
Wednesday, February 9, 2011
9 days in
So I am 9 days into changing my diet and with it hopefully my life.
As stated in a previous post, my goal is to lose 20 pounds.
What may be pertinent to review is how and why I am here as, for me, I feel its more than a new year desire to shed some pounds after an over indulgent holiday period.
When you reach certain points in your life (29 in my case...ahem) you tend to occasionally have a moment of realisation and reflect on things, at least I do and suspect the same of most folks.
An epiphany l believe they call it.
Or in my case a Harajuku Moment perhaps (google it or see The Four Hour Body book and you will see the connection). Though my HM is probably really several conjoined realisations than one crystal clear moment. Which is a concern as without an absolute moment of clarity I am uncertain I can make this stick.
That concern aside my moment(s) is defined by a dissatisfaction with who I am...if actions speak louder than words then a significant portion of my efforts run counter to what I want and who I think I am.
This is highlighted in my being/feeling very unfit, not being in control of my life (work, eating, health, happiness) and that I have become everything I knew I didn't want to be at school ... fat, working a desk job, grey and uninspired.
Though as I say, it was more a coalescing of events that began to weigh on me...my daughters 22 year old boyfriend dying of cancer, my mother no longer being able do anything for herself, renting a flat, the rut of work/eat/sleep and the hamster wheel nature of it, pension planning rather than living in the now, etc.
My dad passed away 6 years ago now and I thought then that was significant. A moment to grasp and know to recognise what matters in life rather than waste a lot if time in minutiae. I needed to value life and my time here as opposed to living day to day, hand to mouth, holiday to holiday. Make more of it all.
I think I have lost sight of that and all that I wanted to be.
So I don't like who I am or what I have become, not the essence of me or my.spirit but the physical manifestation of me
I need to change.
How do I do it, I don't know, there is no easy answer or path.
So my choice is to try focus on one thing at a time and see where it leads me. That way there is no confusion or multiple demands on my time...bar working and other normal aspects of life!
So my one goal, lose 20 pounds - weight or weight loss - is tied to my sense of self worth, bad eating habits, self confidence, a lever to move my health and fitness and a path.
So move this rock up the hill and perhaps I can identify other rocks and begin to put them in my backpack.
I am not staying I know if this will work or if I can achieve the goal but I must try as it's the candle in the forest. Move towards it and perhaps I can find a way out of the tangle. If I don't I am running out of time and I don't want to be running over these thoughts in 6 years time except perhaps to reflect on it being the time I changed my life.
Till the next time ... TIOT
PS As of today I have lost 9 pounds.
As stated in a previous post, my goal is to lose 20 pounds.
What may be pertinent to review is how and why I am here as, for me, I feel its more than a new year desire to shed some pounds after an over indulgent holiday period.
When you reach certain points in your life (29 in my case...ahem) you tend to occasionally have a moment of realisation and reflect on things, at least I do and suspect the same of most folks.
An epiphany l believe they call it.
Or in my case a Harajuku Moment perhaps (google it or see The Four Hour Body book and you will see the connection). Though my HM is probably really several conjoined realisations than one crystal clear moment. Which is a concern as without an absolute moment of clarity I am uncertain I can make this stick.
That concern aside my moment(s) is defined by a dissatisfaction with who I am...if actions speak louder than words then a significant portion of my efforts run counter to what I want and who I think I am.
This is highlighted in my being/feeling very unfit, not being in control of my life (work, eating, health, happiness) and that I have become everything I knew I didn't want to be at school ... fat, working a desk job, grey and uninspired.
Though as I say, it was more a coalescing of events that began to weigh on me...my daughters 22 year old boyfriend dying of cancer, my mother no longer being able do anything for herself, renting a flat, the rut of work/eat/sleep and the hamster wheel nature of it, pension planning rather than living in the now, etc.
My dad passed away 6 years ago now and I thought then that was significant. A moment to grasp and know to recognise what matters in life rather than waste a lot if time in minutiae. I needed to value life and my time here as opposed to living day to day, hand to mouth, holiday to holiday. Make more of it all.
I think I have lost sight of that and all that I wanted to be.
So I don't like who I am or what I have become, not the essence of me or my.spirit but the physical manifestation of me
I need to change.
How do I do it, I don't know, there is no easy answer or path.
So my choice is to try focus on one thing at a time and see where it leads me. That way there is no confusion or multiple demands on my time...bar working and other normal aspects of life!
So my one goal, lose 20 pounds - weight or weight loss - is tied to my sense of self worth, bad eating habits, self confidence, a lever to move my health and fitness and a path.
So move this rock up the hill and perhaps I can identify other rocks and begin to put them in my backpack.
I am not staying I know if this will work or if I can achieve the goal but I must try as it's the candle in the forest. Move towards it and perhaps I can find a way out of the tangle. If I don't I am running out of time and I don't want to be running over these thoughts in 6 years time except perhaps to reflect on it being the time I changed my life.
Till the next time ... TIOT
PS As of today I have lost 9 pounds.
Tuesday, February 1, 2011
Goal
What, what, what do I want to accomplish? Or perhaps that could be better expressed as how do I want to change my life, myself, my future?
If this is resolutions by any other name then its not going to work. With that in mind I'm going to pare it down to one goal to target. Once there I'll choose another, etc.
No idea if it will work but previous years multiple areas of (non) focus haven't either.
So my immediate goal is ... lose 20 pounds (1 stone 6 pounds). Starting from 246 (17 stone, 8 pounds).
The trick is also to do it and manage enough of a lifestyle change with it that means I can keep it off.
The choice of goal is also a platform. It will make me feel healthier, move me towards coming off medication and likely make me more confident. Plus provide me with access to a whole new (old) wardrobe!
So till the next time...hopefully lighter... TIOT
If this is resolutions by any other name then its not going to work. With that in mind I'm going to pare it down to one goal to target. Once there I'll choose another, etc.
No idea if it will work but previous years multiple areas of (non) focus haven't either.
So my immediate goal is ... lose 20 pounds (1 stone 6 pounds). Starting from 246 (17 stone, 8 pounds).
The trick is also to do it and manage enough of a lifestyle change with it that means I can keep it off.
The choice of goal is also a platform. It will make me feel healthier, move me towards coming off medication and likely make me more confident. Plus provide me with access to a whole new (old) wardrobe!
So till the next time...hopefully lighter... TIOT
Its now Feb 1st....
...and it feels like the new year is actually starting.
The blue aspects of January haven't been replaced but have at least receded a little and with that comes the desire to find something that makes life a little more vibrant, tolerable and focussed.
This may seem a glum summation of the year to date but its more meant to reflect the move from the heights of Christmas/New Year hedonism back to the day to day hamster wheel of existence that life can become. January is the restart of the annual process of goals, resolutions, realisations and reflection. And with it, the occasionally overwhelming feeling of being here before with not enough changing.
So this year needs to be different (as I say every year) but how to make it different. Everyone says to write things down whether blogging, goals, a diary or a journal. And to make goals public so you can be held accountable. None of these things are within my comfort zone and all the more reasons to do it I hear you say...so that's the plan...publish and be held accountable.
So now to come up with my goals.
Next post...Goals
TIOT out for now
The blue aspects of January haven't been replaced but have at least receded a little and with that comes the desire to find something that makes life a little more vibrant, tolerable and focussed.
This may seem a glum summation of the year to date but its more meant to reflect the move from the heights of Christmas/New Year hedonism back to the day to day hamster wheel of existence that life can become. January is the restart of the annual process of goals, resolutions, realisations and reflection. And with it, the occasionally overwhelming feeling of being here before with not enough changing.
So this year needs to be different (as I say every year) but how to make it different. Everyone says to write things down whether blogging, goals, a diary or a journal. And to make goals public so you can be held accountable. None of these things are within my comfort zone and all the more reasons to do it I hear you say...so that's the plan...publish and be held accountable.
So now to come up with my goals.
Next post...Goals
TIOT out for now
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