I hope you all had an awesome (drunkard) Christmas and have much of the same planned for New Year!
I have just officially marked the end of my Christmas with a 15k run and a skipping session – hence I have headed back to ‘The String Theory’. I just have to say after the Christmas festivities that ended up kicking off in early November the running/skipping session was rather painful. I hope you guys are all now ready for the New Year festivities; mine will kick off in London tomorrow and conclude in Portsmouth, so as I cover this ground I hope I cross paths with some of you.
I don’t know what everyone’s been thinking about over the festive period. I still haven’t managed to figure out Santa’s delivery strategy, something I’m sure UPS would kill to know as I still await the delivery of my new trainers. I track Santa’s global progress every year to try and figure this out to no avail. Although this year I’ve come to the conclusion that not only does Santa have clones to make TV cameo appearances and shopping centre visits, there is also more than one Santa Clause delivering the gifts.
From one of these Santa Clause’s I got a couple of messages I’d like to share:
Firstly – A mug ‘Daring to be Different’
In past years I’ve probably followed this message too closely (my whole life in fact), Santa has highlighted the importance of this. That you need to dare to be different...... but not so different that you become a menace to society and they have to take you off to the head hospital and conduct experiments on your brain. That would just be too different, O.K?
I do agree with this strange but poignant message, but in this growing world perhaps there are no limits to how different you can be, as that in itself would be your own niche.
Secondly – The mug’s coaster ‘Be as great as your Mum thinks you are!’
Behind every great achievement there is always a great Mum, something that Santa always likes to emphasise, bizarrely.
Something I connected with from Richard Branson’s Autobiography was how his Mum believed in him when nobody else did. Also how she made him independent, although my Mum never dropped me off in an unknown area to make my own way home, maybe she should have as it didn’t do Branson much harm (we affectionately refer to each other by our surnames).
Usually it is your Mum that is your biggest fan so something Santa has reminded me is to be aware of this on a daily basis and be as good she thinks I am, failing that, be even better than she thinks I am.
Following these messages from one of the Santa’s I’d like to wish you an awesome New Year....... I’ve just paid for my first month’s Type Pad subscription after putting together 6 blog posts and getting over 900 unique visitors (after an SEO session I plan to build from this and hope you will pass the link on).
With this I bid you farewell for a few days, until I end up back in the office skipping away (permitting my celebrations stay safe).
Thanks for reading and finding this blog in 2010 – see you on the other side where I will be daring to be even more different and aiming to be great or greater than my Mum thinks I am.
On that note it’s time to put the mug and coaster to good use with some tea and chocolate
See you in 2011!
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