This is a big year for me: as far as I’m concerned 2011 is not yet another chapter in the book of my life; it is the beginning of a brand new novel.
It’s all clean, white, gleaming pages just waiting to be written on. Filled with new achievements, challenges, fun, laughter, lurve, sunlight, hammocks and flip flops.
This year I am looking at things differently. I am now on book three in a series of books called Christine Penhall – did you really do that, really?- and I’ve decided that its time I took control of the plot. In fact, this time, instead of it all being crammed, stuck, in my head, I will write some of it down, in the form of a blog. Perhaps that way, when I read it back, some of it will make sense…will it?
New activity number one this year is..Meditation. I must have needed it – totally knocked me senseless for a few days. However…..if I’m taking control of the plot of my life, I need to strike a balance between being THAT relaxed and a BIT wired…so meditation will be rationed over the course of the year. Still, what a revelation. I’ve been at full pelt for many, many years without realising it, and I just put myself amongst kind, happy, smiley people, who are also, obviously, rather calm….closed my eyes, breathed slowly, counted properly, and KABUM..Perhaps a work like KABUM is wrong for this activity…maybe AAHHHHHHH…Whatever, however, it works…
So, now, in the half way house between being overelaxed and overexcited I have signed on with an extras agency, changed the way I am working to freelance, am planning a holiday to Marrakesh, getting my bathroom done (no, not very spiritual, but practicality is necessary in some areas of your life), writing my novel. And enjoying rather than worrying.
This year is going to be an adventure. First one starts at the end of January. What is it..I’ll tell you when I’ve done it!
Well done Chris good luck with everything xx