Season Finale

With the end of the weekend came the end of the holiday season. The tree is down, the decorations are ready to go back into storage, mom-in-law is on the bus back to Peterborough. The big dinners and get togethers are done, and it is time to get back to work. This is the year in which things are going to get DONE! So out with the old procrastination, and it with the new 'Damn the Torpedoes! Full speed ahead.'

It seems that so often we procrastinators are so afraid of making the wrong decision, so afraid of wasting precious time and resources going down the wrong path, that we are frozen in indecision, and thus end up wasting the time and resources anyway. And what is worse, we have consoled ourselves with this waste (for we are fully aware of it!) by telling ourselves that at least the energy wasn't spent on the wrong things, thus promoting the wrong results. By holding ourselves back , we are arrogant in our superiority that we are somehow better than the adventurers and risk takers, by pointing out those who try and fail. We have adopted the Homer Simpson attitude towards life, "If at first you don't succeed, don't try!"

Well to hells with that. I am 44 this year, and what success I have is due to the risks I have taken. Asking the woman of my dreams to marry me on our first date. (She said yes BTW) Picking up and moving to Cornwall, during a recession. (Where I found my teaching carreer) Moving out of Cornwall into our house, a month or so after it became available. (And buying the house of my Grandparents). So this year, I am going to finish everything I have started, because it needs finishing.

So happy New Years, and let's get to work.