Thoughts for 2026
Well here we are again. Happy New Year! In 2025 I set myself some promises and mostly stuck to them. Simultaneously I became more self-assured, whimsical, but at once a little jaded and cynical. No, I won’t elaborate further (harr-umph).
My thoughts for this coming year can be tritely summarised into a tricolon: do more, do less, do nothing.
Do more
I don’t mean more (countable), I mean more (greater quality). Be more spirited in what I claim to enjoy. Remind myself that I choose my life and my hobbies. No half measures.
Do less
Give up on things that do not bring much personal pleasure. That is, I can still be selfless, but don’t believe you can change the world, or excel at everything. Pick and choose your battles.
Do nothing
Take more pauses, put the screens down, let your thoughts echo.
Concrete stuff?
Wowie that was a lot of wishy-washy non-committal self-help-style mumbo-jumbo. What about tangible outcomes? Again, as with last year, I want to carry on through the multiple boxes full of unread books. Perhaps I’ll share them publicly like fellow blogger Theoo has done (and what a lovely little page it is!).
Secondly, I’d like to use my weekends to go to different places. This doesn’t need to involve extensive planning or exertion, but there’s so much in Gloucestershire I haven’t seen yet.
Anyway, that’s it, bye.