Hey! How was your Christmas? Pleased New Yr! Are your decorations nonetheless hanging on or are you hoovering pine needles out of the deepest darkest depths of your festively over-saturation soul, nonetheless?
Both approach, it’s an entire new yr, and a time of recent begins and adjustments and resolutions. Or is it? There appears to be a giant backlash towards this concept this yr, and I’ve seen extra individuals extra decided to alter completely nothing as a substitute.
(I reckon if you wish to change one thing that’s making you sad, then go forward. Or if the New Yr has given you the impetus to begin one thing new, begin it. And in an analogous vein, in the event you’re joyful as you might be, or wish to be, then that’s nice too, as are you).
I can’t keep in mind the final time I made – or saved – a decision, however this yr I really feel like I would wish to do issues in a different way and because it’s a brand new day of a brand new month of a brand new yr it appears a very good a cause as any to stipulate a few of these issues, so listed here are 5 of them:
Scroll much less: My most typical criticism is that I by no means have any spare time. To do, nicely, something. After which I checked out my iPhone Display Time report and noticed that clearly I did have spare time, I used to be simply spending it on Instagram. And Twitter. And Pinterest. And the remaining. It’s exhausting to strike a steadiness while you use social media for work, however you possibly can’t actually name the ten millionth idle-Insta Tales scroll work, are you able to? And clearly, all of it provides up. So this yr I’m going to cease the senseless scrolling and…
Do extra as a substitute: Be it really updating my weblog (I’m going to be making some adjustments, in addition to some new common options – like this one) or posting extra on Instagram as a substitute of watching everybody else do it.
Learn books: Or, to be extra correct, learn greater than final yr once I learn a grand complete of three. Which was an enchancment on the yr earlier than’s complete of 1 and a half, which is horrendous contemplating I used to learn one an evening, earlier than youngsters (right here’s extra on why I ended studying). So this yr I’m going all out and aiming to learn one a month. Which is…vaguely achievable, proper? Anybody learn something good lately? Ship all options my approach…
Get outdoors: I’m not simply speaking about my outdated nemesis of leaving the home, extra like, really getting out and going for a run. There’s 1,000,000 the reason why I hate working, which I’ll go into shortly, however I wish to tip the steadiness barely so I don’t hate it. Fairly a lot. And take the kids to see extra of the issues proper on our doorstep, both for the primary time or a return go to (just like the London Transport Museum).
Go to mattress early, sometimes: Me each morning: I’m so drained! Me each night: Let me simply watch yet one more factor / take a look at the whole Web, once more / google that random factor I thought of at 3am six years in the past / Oh wait, what time is it?
Not fear if I don’t do any of those, or all of them. Yep.