Friends and people who you meet at work that over time become friends, but you don't know when the lines got blurry, become the best of friends. The UK population unlike so many of our main land european neighbours work so hard that the average UK citizen now reportedly work over 70 hours per week. If people continue to work that hard just to maintain a certain standard of living when are they going to stop and look around for a while. Ferris Buller had an excellent point.

 

More concerning is that reflecting on the wisdom of The Godfather, he never stopped working, work and life became so intertwined that niether he or any of his family could tell the difference, or switch off from thier work responsibiltlies. Why is that a romatic vision for so many poeple, is it because the average UK cit doesn't know what the right priorities are anymore. Why does it have to take a big scale health or family scare to get peoples perspective in place, why does it have to go that far. Micheal came back a war hero and then found himself protecting his father alone and then realised he enjoyed the adversity. Do we all have to be pushed into a corner under adverse circumstance before we find out what is important and what it is we enjoy?

 

When did you last take a sicky - when did you last spontaniously take off and catch a flight to Millan to go shopping for no apparent reason other than the fact that in this day and age you CAN?

 

Change the wayyou thinik, change the way your friends think, do something you haven't done before, do something that you dream of but havent, show leadership in your own behaviour - you don't need to be irresponsible you just need to start the trend. The average UK cit works too hard, our stress related, heart related and liver related illnessed are higher than any other european country....what are you doing to change it?

 

Take your best freinds, those that will go with you everywhere regardless what job you do, take them one at a time if need be and show them how to stop and look around for a while, sing on a float, ice skate in central, Dive in scotland, walk in wales, shop in milan, sit in the movies one afternoon, blag your way into a restaurant, do a prank phone call... live a little, and in between times work hard but smart.

I have had the most remarkably diverse and long month, I have met new people, I have detoxed fully..I couldn't BE any cleaner and I have got so many choices laid infront of me that I feel very lucky. I have sorted out my finances, rung my IFA, got my house sorted for sale, MOT'd the car...and I heard that yesterday was mean't to be the most depressing day of the year and I didn't even notice..so feeling pretty chipper. Not sure who said or even thought that thier maybe one particular day that is more depressing than others, but I feel for whoever was either asked to find out or devise such a proposterous thing!

 

I have set up all my new feeds for the year of people I want to learn and share stuff with, I have set myself some good and interesting objectives and I have started to work on what my contribution is going to be for my community and my country for this year.

 

I have decided to spend more time writing about my favourite city in the whole world which of course is London, I have booked my trips to the US, Europe, Diving and the end of year BIG adventure, the last one I need to sort is the trekking trip with work. So that is more than enough about me. Now what about life?

 

The weather has finally decided to reflect the time of year we are in, it is snowy, sunny and wonderful, I saw someone throw the first snow ball from a perfectly covered field yesterday, I saw childrew laughing and smiling and dogs bounding through far too deep snow, where it tickled thier noses and made them sneeze. The cars were all covered and looked clean and crisp, the roads looked twinkly and even and the trees looked laiden and heavy with soft cotton wool pulling at thier bows. London appeared out of a film, with the most beautiful pictures and moments which show that we are all still human and a small part of such a wonderful and random system. I drove with my roof down and the heater turned up, taking advantage of the largest hairdryer in the world. This has to be the most magical time of year - it's all about opportunity and change, everything can look different if you want to see it. I spoke to a guy who stands outside the National Portrait Gallery on tuesday, he is always there, and always gives me a great big smile, he sells Big Issue and on occasions i stop for a quick chat, he is from "up north" and is always polite and happy. He has an opinion about everything and is gentle. I watched a film over xmas that had colin Firth in it - it was a bunch of different life collisions, not sure what it was called but it tried to tackle the homeless agenda, it didn't help me understand how I should feel about it, or what to do. But it did make me stop and talk more. If anyone has any good ideas about what to do I would love some ideas - I'm not trying to solve the whole issue - just understand what we can do to make a positive difference.

 

I heard that Labour has created more capitalist gains and more single multi millionaires than the Tories could have ever hope to...this made me giggle, unfortunetly I am ot one of them, but having seen that a chap in the city got a bonus of £52M last year I am sure it is just a matter of time, that kind of money seems to be growing on trees. But it does make me wonder what the UK is going to become, the divide is getting bigger, the whole country is diversifying from immigrants who are coming in who are better educated and qualififed than the avg. brit all the way to the rich and famous, or those who appear on big brother...not sure they qualify as celebrities but I guess that was the point. All the same I am worried that our UK talent pool is getting so broad with no strong theme's hanging it together that the UK needs as a country will be lost and it will become a vanilla canvas that doesn't represent anything. What then, why and how could we continue to attract great people to help and make this place great, what contribution do you make.

 

Santa is dressed in red because of Coke, there are no red letter boxes or telephone boxes anymore, black cabs are being cut up by rickshaws (which I do love) being ridden by university students from Prague, our advertising is winning awards all over the world, TV is declining and braodband is helping our social media blossom, our culture is becoming so rich, and our government is not using this to it's full potential .... and the avg. joe is watching Big Brother and so lacking any important agenda's to talk about they have created a pivotal issue around a person who is just trying to make a living but certainly not important enough to be on front page.

 

If this is how the year starts I can't wait for the rest :) ... Come on Britain .... what have you got for this year?

 

 

The world is changing, the information and communication we have available to us is changing, therefore we need to change too. so this is going to be a blog that for this year is dedicated to change.....to kick off check out the coolest gadget to hit the shops

 

 

Here is to a year of positive change :)