January Recap

JANUARY REVIEW

Around this time last year, I made the decision to write a daily blog of my thoughts in order to discover some home truths about myself which I could then analyse to help bring about some positive changes in my life. A year and one week has passed since I embarked on this journey of discovery.

There have been some marked improvements on my path to success and through my daily regular research, I've discovered some great tools plus had my mind opened to many more ideas on how to achieve even greater successes. The plan for 2016 is to gather all these findings together so I can clearly pinpoint where further improvements can be made and also to collate everything into a more concise format so these findings, both good and bad, can all be shared with the world in the form of a book.

Reading through my diary posts from January 2015, I can see early my signs of excitement from taking the initial steps to actually make the changes to my life. There's evidently an eagerness there for me to discover new information. Every enthusiastic post that's written talks positively of my achievements and goals. The mere fact that I'd stuck to my resolve and commitment to get up early in the mornings at this cold and dark time of the year, plus kept on doing this for the entire month, became a strong enough motivation to carry me forward.

The whole of January was really positive with some great breakthroughs in beating stress and fixing some long-term ailments through diet and exercise. I also started to touch type which I've now got pretty good at doing. I also took steps towards learning another language, which will only continue to improve in 2016.

My goal this week has been to re-read the previous blog posts, adding tags to them so I can identify which ones go together. I've also gone back over some of the teachings from Geoff Thompson and I'm now reading his book The Elephant and the Twig, which is again helping me to move forward.

Some of the most inspirational moments came from getting up early in the mornings. Having this time to myself has allowed time to address the issues I've been facing and most importantly, given me a window to be creative on something I care about - ie. improving myself to be better equipped for helping others. The creative writing practise alone will help me achieve more success in the future as I'll be much more confident at communicating through the written word.

Compassion seems to come up a lot in the posts and there are early signs of my getting some success in this area through being in a better place myself. A lot of this would have been through eating and sleeping well, allowing a more considerate frame of mind, but giving up alcohol was clearly a major contributing factor, I'm sure. I will continue to abstain from the booze for the rest of January now and see if that was indeed the case.

All in all, the January posts are of a very uplifting nature and I can see why it was a constructive month. This time around, I am out of work and therefore have even more time to look at how to make improvements. The key thing to sort out now is finding meaningful employment. This will be my ultimate focus. Not wanting to go back to the same role working in a corporate world is going to be a challenge, because getting a job that pays the bills while also allowing an acceptable level of comfort in an expensive city like London, will be tricky. I'll just have to be a lot better with my money while I work on this new life. Having a life role that brings me both satisfaction and decent money, may be a while off yet. I have to keep that fact in the back of my mind if I'm going to feel confident in what I'm doing and to keep any negative thoughts at bay.