2020 Vision
I’m never sure at which point it becomes politically incorrect to keep on saying Happy New Year. I’m still including it in emails at the moment, but I think by the end of next week I’ll probably have to knock it on the head and accept that 2020 is here and it’s no longer new.
2019 went out with a bang in many ways, but most obviously with a long planned trip to Australia which did turn out to be the holiday of a lifetime.
Simply from the point of view distance, when you arrive in Australia you feel the need to enjoy yourself as you’ve travelled all that way. And sometimes stepping away from things can bring clarity. You don’t necessarily need to go to Australia, but the beginning of the New Year is a good time to stand back and take stock.
An awful lot of self-help homilies keep appearing on my Facebook feed and I have to resist the urge to click on mute or block each time they do, but there does seem to be a trend. Instead of saying what we will do in 2020, it might help all of us to say what we won’t do. Not spend so much time looking at screens. Not spend so much time worrying about things that we can’t affect. Not just hurling abuse at people when they’re spouting what we consider to be a load of nonsense in our living rooms on the television.
I’ve just bought a new suit this afternoon and put it in my wardrobe and in order to justify it, I’ve put the old suit that was rather worn and torn into a bag to go to a charity shop. To justify the trip I’m going to have to have a forage through the rest of the wardrobe and find at least another 10 or 12 items that no longer have a place, and would be better served helping somebody else or raising money for something.
So time for a clear out. Time for a think about all the things I don’t need to do, which will allow the things that I do take part in to have space to breathe. That will give me time to savour them and enjoy. I have a feeling that if I stopped doing some of the bad practices listed above I could gain half-an-hour a day and that’s magical time in which I could do something much more productive, or useful.
So if there is a New Year’s resolution oozing its way out of me, it’s to cut back on things that get in the way, and find space for the nice things. Rather than trying to satisfy everyone, find an hour for coffee with the person you really like.
And if you haven’t had that coffee invitation from me by the end of the month, then don’t worry. Remember-I’m taking my time.
And if you do want to read a little more about Australia....here's our diary.
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