It also that time, as the New Year approaches, you look back on and reflect on the last twelve months and formulate resolutions for the year ahead. It's all too easy to get negative and mauling, to focus on the failures, like not making the diet stick or not proof reading a novel properly. Beating yourself up, when the resolutions you make to try harder next year, generally fall by the wayside by the end of January.
So instead focus on the positive. The things you have achieved this year. The little things that you can do to make a big difference next year. Like donating a tin of food to the Food Bank each week, when you do your weekly shop. As someone once said, none of us can solve all of the worlds problems, but we can all do something to make the world a better place.
My resolutions are fairly simple and straightforward; to improve my grammar, proof reading and editing; not let my dyslexia stop me writing or distress my readers so much; and tick a few more hill-walks and other things off a very long my bucket list.
Because it's also that time of year we remember the people we've lost, both the famous and those closer to home. A reminder of how mortal and precious life is. If they we're here they'd all tell you the same thing. Life is meant to be lived. That you have to make the most of the limited time you have on this earth. To stop finding excuses to put off the things you've always wanted to do and get out there and do them while you can.
Best Wishes for the New Year. May 2015 be your best year yet.