On the verge

So today I am standing on the verge of a new year in my life. Tomorrow I turn 38 and I am optimistic it is going to be a pretty fine year for me. I was thinking this morning about opportunities and creating them for myself. This year I need to make the most of opportunities and create them to allow myself to progress to where I want to be. In "The Artists Way" it talks about how we are given the gift to be able to create and it is often our selfishness that stops us from using this and sharing with the world. I think it has been brewing in me for some time, but I really want to get myself to a position where I can live by creating, experiencing and sharing my life. I have achieved professionally and will in June of this year been in a senior management role for two years. What next for me I have to ask myself and I think that is getting to a position where I am earning income from my creativity and looking to cut back on 9-5. I know, I know, it is the great dream and we all wish that we could do it. But maybe the difference is wishing and doing! This will be my year of doing and my year of seeing if I can get myself somewhere. If by 39, I can say I am working semi-regularly as a singer and writing a bit I will know I have achieved what I want for 38.

Linked to this journey is of course the desire to garden, bake and produce my own food. This is not really the product of a desire for sustainability, more a desire to be more in touch with my world and making more of what I eat to ensure quality. This will be important for me in the coming year as I try to find where I will be creatively and where I can hope to be.

Pulled out the old Rocket yesterday which had gone to seed, weeded the garden and then planted more Rocket.