2020. Is it the start of a new year, decade, life?

It’s the new year, a new decade (depending on who you talk to), the usual new year resolutions, the half baked attempt at reinventing yourself to make you a better version of you. I used to think that it was the perfect opportunity to do just that…

I don’t any more.

What is 2020 going to bring to me? I don’t have a clue. It could be a terrible year or simply the best [in my best Tina Turner voice].

What do I know this year will bring? Well my livelihood will change as I enter my last possible annum in a career that has spanned almost two and a half decades. My contact runs out and I look for opportunity in the future. I am filled with trepidation and excitement. I no longer fear the future like I used to.

Photography and video [wow] has now been a part of my life for almost 20 years and I look forward in the real possibility that this will start to take more of a back seat. I will continue with some form of photography but possibly only for spiritual balance.

So the next twelve months will have their challenges, but one thing I have learned is that life is full of challenges and who can say which challenges will end up being more pivotal than any others? Often a challenge that can seem like a small ‘ride it out’ blip, can become the mother of all life changes and vice versa.

Does the new year really seem like the right time to make you a better you? No, I don’t think so. It’s almost a lazy approach. does that mean if things don’t work out, I must wait until Jan 2021 to readjust? Absolutely not! The proactive method for me, it to reflect almost daily on what you have achieved, what changes you are making and challenge yourself to be a better version of yourself today than you were yesterday. By doing this and being honest, you can make those small daily changes that will become big changes in time.

I won’t wish you all a happy new year, today, but I will wish you a better today than yesterday, and very day from now on…