New Years Resolutions

It's that time of year again when the dreaded 'New Years Resolutions' get bandied about and I start to dread being asked, so what are your resolutions? Now don't get me wrong I'm not being all bah humbug about them, if you can come up with them, stick with them and achieve them then hats off to you, it's quite the achievement in my book. My issue is that whenever I have felt the calendar proscribed push to come up with some I generally pick something generic that my heart isn't really into, I think you can guess what happens with them......

I'm a big believer in setting yourself goals, ambitions, dreams and working your way to achieving them, they are key and something to be taken with the utmost respect and dedication. I just struggle when I feel I should come up with some because everyone else is. It does get me thinking and reappraising, maybe refreshing, my goals and aims though, so for that I guess I do owe new years resolutions something.

At the end of 2008 I decided that one of my goals was to finally do something that I had been thinking about for a while, and with some 'encouragement' from my other half, well more like a firm push and kick, embarked on becoming a mentor to a young lad. This has been a long drawn out process of training, interview, matching and so on and didn't start till June last year. It's for a year and will finish in June this year. Now I don't intend at this point going into the details of this, I shall save that treat for a later date, but it did occur to me that my resolution to do it will take over a year and a half to complete. Due to the drawn out nature of it, and actually doing it at the moment, I haven't really thought about what next, and as time passes and the end becomes closer I find myself thinking about the next step.

What do I want to do? Where does mentoring take me? I'm not too sure at the moment, but maybe my "New Years Resolution" for the want of a better term is to keep thinking about this, so it isn't quite the 'get fit' goal that I have but haven't quite got round to starting (blaming the snow at the moment, what will I blame when it all goes?), but it's a start and hopefully will take me somewhere.

So what are your resolutions, aims, goals, dreams, plans, and how are you going to make sure you get there?

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