Over the last year:
- I've moved back into an office environment after a year and a half working in a pub
- I've quit smoking
- I'm loosing weight
- I'm learning to drive
- I've finally cleared the last of my student loans
- I'm learning SQL
- I'm making sure I've filled in any gaps in my self taught statistical knowledge
and coming up over the next year...
- I'll become debt free
- I'll pass my test and have my own car
- I'll maintain this blog
- I'll get laser eye surgery
- I'll finish one of the novels I've started
As odd as it sounds all these changes have largely been a matter of choice, simple choice. Not thinking 'Wouldn't it be great if...' or 'If only I could...' or 'I'd do x if I had...' but just making the decision that I would change my life. Oh and taking every bit of help I can find.
Some people reacted critically to the fact that I was taking advantage of the NHS's stop smoking service and telling me about people they had known who just went cold turkey which struck me as odd, why would I make it any harder than it has to be?
Now the new job has helped with my finances and learning to drive, but these are things I could have been doing anyway. I've downloaded apps to keep track of my money and dug out an old set of dumbbells to help me exercise, I'm talking to friends and family about what I'm doing so they're asking me how things are going and encouraging me.
I guess what I'm trying to say is if you want to change something, stop making excuses and start changing it, you'd be surprised how many problems you think are going to occur don't and how much easier it is to be the ones that do materialise are to handle once you've got some momentum.
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