Joyful January
... although let's be honest, it's usually not that joyful! It's cold, dark, and a very, very long time to the next payday!! You know my thoughts on New Year resolutions by now, I'm not a great fan despite the fact that I absolutely love planning, organising, goals, targets etc etc. However, it's simply not a good time of year to put pressure on ourselves. Every year we think that something magical is going to happen on the 1st January and we'll morph into super motivated human beings. I'm not being pessimistic, I'm being realistic and whilst it's brilliant to have the goal of changing something in your life for the better, you need to go about it in the right way. Instead of charging into the new year like a bull in a china shop, use January and February to re-group so that you are ready to emerge in Spring, along with all the other new shoots and things in nature that have been resting and recuperating. Don't be too complacent though, th...