It’s a brand spanking new year which means the world is once more your oyster! You can quite literally reinvent yourself to do or become anything you want, have a think about what you wanted and learned last year, and where you want to go next. I’ve never been one for grandiose and somewhat vague resolutions, they tend to always feel unattainable and never actually take flight, but one thing that does work for me are goals. Personal, professional or even financial, a goal feels realistic and obtainable, something that, whether short term or long term, feels realistic to me. Here’s a list of 7 goals that I’ve set for myself, some really small, some bigger, and by the end of 2017 I’ll reassess which  goals I obtained, and where I stumbled: 1: Drink more water. Sounds fairly easy right? And still I manage not to drink enough water. Coffee, tea, soft drinks, and the odd glass of wine or bubbly, that’s not the problem, but 1.5 – 2l of water a day seems to be …

This article has been in my draft folder for what seems like forever, always wanting to post it, but always just a hint too frightened for it to go live. But how could this little place ever truly be my own if I can’t share what’s really running through my mind. So here it goes, and we’ll get back to the fun bit of this blog soon enough. I’d love to hear your thoughts on this, so please don’t hesitate to drop me a line in the comments below. An article written a while ago by a friend of mine on him not wanting to no longer participate in today’s blogging world rat race got me to thinking. Thoughts, bits and pieces of what could become a post simmered and bubbling in my mind, and it was not until earlier today (it is now well past midnight), when I read this and this post on the fakeness of the generality of blogging, the fakeness of leading bloggers and the illusions created by their images that …