A More Exciting Life

I love visiting places like this... I have just realised – feel free to call me a bit slow – that if I am to make my life more exciting, I need to first identify what those things are that really bring major excitement into my life.  If I don't make it clear to myself what I'm actually after, I may as well go about blindfolded trying to find my way from A to B without a clue of where I'm going. And while I'm sure that it would be an unforgettable experience itself trying to find the elusive B, right now I would prefer a more direct approach. That's not to say I won't enjoy the journey there - journeys are very important - but so are destinations. So what do I need to be doing to feel more alive? What do I need to have in my life to feel that it’s exciting? In the past, what was I doing when I was having fun and really enjoying life? There's no real contest here. My number one source of excitement is holidaying, exploring new places, feeling that I’m ...

I’ve booked my holiday!!!! I’d been psyching myself up for it for quite some time and finally did it this week. Well, I kind of felt that I couldn't really show my face here until I'd done it. And you’d think that booking a holiday was something you couldn’t wait to do but this one was a bit trickier than that. The holiday in question is a hiking holiday in North America. They don’t exactly come cheap, in fact this is the single most expensive holiday I’ve ever booked. So there’s the money aspect. Also some of my seemingly minor health problems might spoil things a bit if they flare up while there so that’s a bit of a risk and combined with the cost, it does make you think twice. But if this year is to count then I need to firmly put any negative thoughts aside and believe in a positive outcome. But it made me think how easy it is to put off doing something that you really want to do because it costs so much and how difficult it can be to justify spending a lot of mon...

Christmas tree in Covent Garden, London You may have noticed the lack of images of Christmas trees here (see my previous post) . I did take some, they just never made it here until today (I’m putting one up now to show that I really took some). Stress took over in December. Work was very busy and come evening all I wanted to do was to forget about doing anything unpleasant and just do what I fancied. And it wasn't blogging. At first I was stressing about not producing any content for my blog and then I started questioning whether the whole blog was a very good idea after all. Yes, over the holidays I was seriously considering deleting this blog. My two blog posts that I’d crafted with care and excitement and fear, too. No more. Then I wouldn’t need to stress about blogging. But then the year changed and I was setting goals for the new year and came across the question of the blog; yes or no? It would’ve been much easier to decide ‘no’ but somehow I couldn’t let myself do that...