If you must start something new you must start it with champagne surely?
As Christmas and New Year however, and even my birthday, have passed also all the champagne has mysteriously disappeared! It was fun as long as it lasted but now we're all on detox, broke and depressed - mild over exaggeration I hope.
New Year offers annually an opportunity to look at everything with pondering eyes and wondering mind. Am I doing what I want to be doing? Is my career heading to where I planned all those years ago? Am I staying on the track I am on or should I possibly re-consider my options?
Easiest route would arguably be to keep on doing what you've always been doing, not to cause too many waves, not to rock the boat as they say. Wake up in the morning, stick to the routine or the non-routine which actually IS a routine, keep your head down, do your bit, come home, eat and watch telly and... what? Repeat until you die?
But is the above really what you want? Is it really the easiest thing to do either? To my opinion not so. You stagnate, you become slow in your thinking, you get bored of being bored and then sadly stop even question it and in worse case just accept it as "that's the way things are". Like an old song you sing it along without even hearing the words any longer.
My life doesn't necessarily come across as a typically boring one. I run my businesses, I travel, my work is varied and all, which there are many, of my projects are interesting and individual. I don't have a boss and I decide what direction I want to take with my work almost without limits. BUT. Routine is a killer and even an exciting routine wears down to just a routine and then just to a sigh. "This again? Oh well, better get it done."
A friend of mine played me a song "Wear Sunscreen" yesterday and couple of lines from it really struck at me.
“The most interesting people I know
Didn’t know at 22 what they wanted to do with their lives
Some of the most interesting 40-year -olds I know, still don’t”
And another line
“Do one thing ever day that scares you.”
To keep life interesting you really shouldn't know every twist and turn it's going to take. Not that you actually in reality can but too often we spend too much time speculating what's to come and what are the consequences when we don't even know which way the wind is going to blow on that day. You don't have to calculate every move, have water proof and storm tight plans. In fact I feel that possibly the less you know of what's to come the more you'll enjoy the every day life. Could it be that simply?
Well, I'm building a website (this website that you are on) and getting another one built with a huge online shop. Both are scary projects for me. And what's also pretty damn daunting is the fact that I'm committing to write a BLOG to go along with the interior design website. I don't have to. I can just delete the tab at the top where it says BLOG and way it goes! But I would like to. I would like to do something that forces me to actively write, and therefore analyse, the life around me. The days, the projects, the weather, the flowers, the whatever I feel inspired by.
And why? Why should I go to all this trouble? Because I think it's good for me and if my dreams come true it'll be also good to someone else somewhere out there. Maybe you. Maybe someone else, but someone; anyone who will stop + question or pause + realise or take a break + think. Will you?
Ask yourself this: Are you happy? And then, do nothing more about it. Just think. Take a moment and ponder. And then when you've gone around this way and that in your head and have arrived to the inevitable place where you start listing things that ARE making you happy; take note. And do more of those things!
Champagne please! Tx