I feel I’m not doing a very good job here. It’s been 3.5 months since my first post and the only really exciting thing I’ve done so far is booking a holiday. And since the holiday is still several months away, I don’t think it counts for very much. My progress is painfully slow but I would say there is some.
Well, the holiday counts for some because I now have something exciting to look forward to. Something that happened yesterday also reminded me of the need to plan well ahead for some exciting activities. The story started last summer…. One of my workmates had tickets to the men’s singles final at Wimbledon. Tickets to the Wimbledon tennis championships are not something you can buy just like that (well, you can buy VIP tickets at the cost of up to £4000 or you can queue for a limited amount of tickets on the day but you have to be there really early, like 6am or something, to get your hands on them). Instead, there’s a ballot and those who get lucky are offered tickets to buy.
So last summer, inspired by my workmate, I decided that I would take part in the next ballot, which I did, and yesterday I got a letter saying I’d been lucky!! Not lucky enough to get tickets to the men’s final, unfortunately, but tickets to watch some of the early round games. That’s better than nothing. That is still getting to go to Wimbledon to watch tennis with my own little eyes and to experience the atmosphere there. Result! One of these years I will get tickets to men’s final.
There is excitement in looking forward to something wonderful. I have a friend who can’t really plan very far ahead. On New Year’s Day he texted me asking me if I wanted to fly with him to the Canary Islands the following day for a 5-day holiday. That’s right. He gave me one day’s notice. He went without me. I wasn’t willing to do it at such short notice, for one the cost of flights would have been astronomical compared to booking them early. I was also already planning my hiking holiday and wanted to save my money for that.
Also, I couldn’t help thinking that had I chosen to go I’d have missed all the excitement of looking forward to something exciting. Yes, that’s actually an added extra that you get completely free when you book your activities early. You know the feeling of counting down the days, preparing, buying stuff to take with you, daydreaming about it when work seems too much... That's half the fun almost!
So I guess I can report that I have another wonderful and exciting thing to look forward to; to go and watch some very good tennis next summer.
Back to my friend who goes on holiday at a day’s notice. Even though on that occasion I said no to his invite, I have many wonderful memories of doing lots of fun things with him when I’ve said yes to doing something immediately, without any sort of forward planning at all.
Being spontaneous can be a very admirable characteristic in a person and quite often I do wish that I could be more like my friend. That doesn’t go down well with this little creature living somewhere inside my brain who likes to plan and analyse and think and compare and left to my own devices I exhaust myself with all that and so often end up doing nothing instead. Not good.
So what's the lesson here? I'm quite good at planning ahead but I also need to be more spontaneous. But I guess you already knew that.
Well, the holiday counts for some because I now have something exciting to look forward to. Something that happened yesterday also reminded me of the need to plan well ahead for some exciting activities. The story started last summer…. One of my workmates had tickets to the men’s singles final at Wimbledon. Tickets to the Wimbledon tennis championships are not something you can buy just like that (well, you can buy VIP tickets at the cost of up to £4000 or you can queue for a limited amount of tickets on the day but you have to be there really early, like 6am or something, to get your hands on them). Instead, there’s a ballot and those who get lucky are offered tickets to buy.
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There is excitement in looking forward to something wonderful. I have a friend who can’t really plan very far ahead. On New Year’s Day he texted me asking me if I wanted to fly with him to the Canary Islands the following day for a 5-day holiday. That’s right. He gave me one day’s notice. He went without me. I wasn’t willing to do it at such short notice, for one the cost of flights would have been astronomical compared to booking them early. I was also already planning my hiking holiday and wanted to save my money for that.
Also, I couldn’t help thinking that had I chosen to go I’d have missed all the excitement of looking forward to something exciting. Yes, that’s actually an added extra that you get completely free when you book your activities early. You know the feeling of counting down the days, preparing, buying stuff to take with you, daydreaming about it when work seems too much... That's half the fun almost!
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So I guess I can report that I have another wonderful and exciting thing to look forward to; to go and watch some very good tennis next summer.
Back to my friend who goes on holiday at a day’s notice. Even though on that occasion I said no to his invite, I have many wonderful memories of doing lots of fun things with him when I’ve said yes to doing something immediately, without any sort of forward planning at all.
Being spontaneous can be a very admirable characteristic in a person and quite often I do wish that I could be more like my friend. That doesn’t go down well with this little creature living somewhere inside my brain who likes to plan and analyse and think and compare and left to my own devices I exhaust myself with all that and so often end up doing nothing instead. Not good.
So what's the lesson here? I'm quite good at planning ahead but I also need to be more spontaneous. But I guess you already knew that.
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