New Years Resolutions | Is There Any Point In Them

My first New Years resolution is to escape this crazy city called London before it sucks me in and totally destroys me. I’m of course I’m only joking, London is very much my home and a place, which I love living in.

I have been living in London for 11 months now and I have barely scratched the surface of this city. I have so much more to do, places to visit and adventures to embark upon before I even consider leaving the world capital of cool.

It is coming to the end of another year and looking back on 2009 it sure has been an eventful year for me. I started off the year living in Barbados in a nice apartment with a balcony view of where the Atlantic Ocean meats the Caribbean Sea. I only had a 15 minute stroll to the water. I miss those days a wee bit, but give me Kilburn in London, where I now live any day.

Right at the beginning of 2009 an incident that will live with me for ever more occurred. I was only a few seconds from drowning in the Atlantic Ocean last January and it was only by the grace of God that the Grim Reaper never got me. My marriage, which lasted about a year, was also truly fucked up and over. My business aspirations, which were finally starting to come together in Barbados, would have to be forgotten about as I headed to London to start a new life.

I spent many a day when I first arrived in London earlier this year, lost, dazed and confused about where I was heading to in life. I went to Barbados with my wife and the attitude that I was there for the foreseeable future, to work on building up a successful business and living a happy life. And here I was in London. With nowhere to live, no job, but one thing I did have was a tiny glimmer of hope that I would turn things around. I just had to move my lazy ass to make things happen.

I must admit it took me around 6 months until I truly regained my desire and enthusiasm to get going with life and work again. I suppose what helped to get me going was the realisation that I was going to end up broke. That really is a reality check. I couldn’t face becoming a wage slave again, it has been such a long time since I had to suffer such pain.

So it is coming to the end of  another  year and I have my own wee enterprise, which is paying the bills and helping me to move forward. I plan on taking things onto to the next level in 2010.

I guess before 2009 comes to an end and 2010 starts that I should probably make some New Years resolutions. But is there really any point in making them, if I don’t stick to them or cant even remember what they are after a few months. Probably not.

The answer my friends is to write down my New Years resolutions, and then quite simply just get on with focussing on achieving my goals. New Years resolutions aren’t just about aimlessly writing down things that you would like to do or changes you wish to make. It is also about how you are going to get to wherever it is you wish to be.

Every journey begins with the first step and the only person stopping us from getting onto the path in life where we desire to be, is ourselves. Anybody can make that first step, but very few people take the second and third steps, it is just too much hard work for most of us.

One thing that I learned during 2009 was that life can be taken away from us in a flash, without any warning. And that feeling sorry about the hand which  life has dealt us wont get us anywhere, apart deeper into a dark hole. I feel blessed and grateful for every single day that I wake up ready to take another step forward in this great and amazing adventure called life.

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