New Year’s resolutions I think are a good idea as it gives you a meaningful definitive start to things that you may have been planning on getting around to – perhaps since last New Years eve!

Considering that last New Years eve I made the following:

• Give up smoking
  Result:  I went the longest I ever have giving up (5 months) and then had that one as a celebration because I thought it wouldn’t hurt! Yeah, right.
• Get to 78 kgs
  Result:  I did have a bit of an advantage here as I was at 88 kgs which was the heaviest I had been in my life – I got to 80!  Not a complete fail but I have had a few blow outs leading up to New Years and I am a bit to scared to get on the scales – a complete failure… well maybe not but I am back concentrating on the 2/5 lifestyle.
• Meditate Daily
  Result: I think about meditating (trying to be mindful) a fair bit.  Maybe this year.

I will keep the above resolutions again this year with a few modifications to my life which surrounds it.  The reason I want these modifications is that I went back through my journal for the year last night and decided that some parts of my life were great and some were just outright shit.

But, in looking over the last year I realised that some of the best times were the little moments (as my wife would describe them ‘the moments of joy – don’t forget to have a look a her blog at www.beatcancerwithjoy.com) were some of the moments that I had forgotten about but were actually the joys of my year.  So, I reviewed my ‘mantras’ on my home page and although I haven’t decided to change my home page (although it is probably due for a revamp!) here they are below.  I think these are really my New Years resolutions, because it is about living all my life, every day and let’s face it that’s what we have to live everyday – remember if people say ‘life is hard’ the reply is, in comparison to what!  So here they are:

• Follow my heart
• Use my head
• Be peaceful
• Be mindful
• Keep it simple
• Fix it
• Let it go
• Write about it
• Be a better man

Well that’s me for the New Year, day one anyway.

Now I just have to lose weight, meditate and give up the smokes – easy!