No Resolutions!

It’s been a hugely busy December but then I wasn’t expecting it to be anything less than a month  crammed full of additional errands! The climax of the month was of course Christmas Day which was spent enjoying a very nice turkey lunch with family – I would happily sacrifice every present for good food with good friends and family, I love it! So to say I had no time to focus on my goal is an understatement, however, I did manage a teeny tiny step in the right direction…
 

Teeny Tiny Step 1 – Making contact with someone who might be able to help me get the permission I need to erect the building I want to house one part of my dreams!

Although this is all I’ve done and no answer has come back yet as to whether my building will be remotely possible, I am happy that I have done something, and, being relieved of all my Christmas duties, I can now spend my free time focussing on the dream again….or so I thought.

I went into work yesterday to be told that I had a choice of being out of work in two weeks or taking on a new contract of work which would use up all 5 days of the week instead of just 4! With the increased £ signs beckoning as opposed to being wiped out altogether I chose the 5 days – who wouldn’t! So where does this leave me and my pursuit of my dreams?

Well I’ve made a commitment and my dream still feels just as good as it did last year, the only difference now is that I have less time to spend on making it real than I thought I would have. But if I can achieve a teeny tiny step with no time at all as I have done last month, surely I can achieve more of them with the little bit of time I will have!?

So, no new year resolutions for me - no time for them - just a continued commitment to achieving another step towards my dream, however small it may be. Meantime may I wish you success in achieving any new year resolutions you might be making for yourself! 


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The Very Beginning

Right now, I know pretty much what I want in my life….I have a list! 

I also know that what I want is a massive dream and I enjoy the way it feels when I think about it. However, it is so far removed from where I am today that I have no idea how I will achieve it. My biggest barrier to achievement is time, and it seems that, from talking to others, I’m not the only one who’s missing that one valuable commodity. Why? Because, like many others, I am a mum who runs our family home – organising, arranging, planning, booking, preparing, keeping on top of household chores and generally catering for everyone’s needs. Add to this the fact that a large chunk of each day, four days a week, are taken up with a job to keep the income stream flowing and what’s left is very little time to get in any way closer to my dream.

Here’s the thing, while I've had a good life and despite the numerous 'you can change your life' themed books and techniques I have explored, I spent most of the first 3 decades not really focussing on whether I was on the right track to get me closer to the kind of life I dreamed about. Looking back I guess I just thought it would happen one day! Well now I'm in my 40’s and I want to find a way of doing something before I wake up at age 80 only to find I no longer have the energy to get what I want.

So I’ve decided, for the next 5 years, I am going to become more focussed on channelling my energies towards my ultimate goal. I have no clearly mapped out steps in place yet but in writing this, I am declaring my commitment to the dream and will therefore be obliged to do something, anything, to start the journey. This story will be my own, real time log of what I’m going to do next. By letting you read about it, I’m hoping that if anyone, regardless of your age, is in a position where you can relate to any part of my unfolding life in any way, then maybe, just maybe, this will get you thinking about what you are doing with your own life, about what you want out of it and about how you’re going to get it. …And if you get what you want before I do, please let me know how you did it!