I like to live life without goals. I really hate them and they bring out my rebellious nature, the minute I set myself a goal or someone sets me one, I do everything in my power to rebel against it and subvert every attempt to stick to it. Like the time I signed up for a half marathon and then immediately stopped running. I’d been running about 10 miles a week at that stage. Doh!
Weightloss is another goal I’ve been rebelling against for ages. Too many voices saying ‘why bother’, ‘it’s soul-destroying to live without nice food’ and ‘you’re not really that overweight’ rang in my head but really, having been to see the nutritionist, I am overweight and it was affecting my health. Man that sounds pretentious but really, I’m just a bit sick of feeling a bit rubbish all the time, and the side effect of getting healthy, is getting serious about what I eat and I am now steadily losing weight. Awesome. Different goals are good.
Anyway, back to goals. They can be very hard taskmasters if you’re not careful. I am a firm believer that you have to enjoy the process of getting somewhere as much as you do the achievement. This is why I am never sure that I would sign up to run a marathon or set a goal of earning XX a year. It sounds soul-destroying.
So I think I am going to stick to getting excited about stuff and going out to do them. If I lose focus on it, then really, it can’t be that important for me. I shall be aimless but happy. No more goals.
Things I am currently excited about:-
- moving house. STRESS but can’t wait for space and newness
- work. Next week we start with Phase 2 of the project and so far, it’s all going very well indeed. (Possibly too well however I can see things going wrong as all the american team are off due to thanksgiving so it’s all on hold)
- Decompression party. Me and the Kevster are heading over to London to dress up and dance like fools all night on the 3rd. I am going as the Mad Hatter and he will be my Alice. He’s going to look so pretty in a frock.
- I’d say christmas but I’d be lying.
- My birthday. It’s a surprise but Simon is plotting something. I like surprises when they are nice surprises
- Skiing. We are going. I have not been before but I can’t wait.
when are you going skiing?
Yo! I have, as of today, booked the 5-12th of March off. January I am launching websites, February is half term and I don’t want to ski with children and so first week March appears to be the best one. Wanna come still?
hmmmm, march not good. already committed to going with the edinburgh ski club on the 20th 😦