The Challenge

Towards the end of last year I started thinking, as one does, about what I had achieved, what I wanted to achieve and generally where I was going in life. The conclusions of this exercise were a bit vague and so this year, rather than indulge in a load of private, secret New Year’s Resolutions which would be broken before I’d even returned to work after the Christmas break I decided to adopt a different strategy, and this is it. I have challenged my friends and family (although, of course, my family count as both of these) to set me some personal challenges for the year ahead. I said they could be open to interpretation or finely defined as they chose. I didn’t nail it down much beyond that as I thought giving them free rein would result in a more interesting response as they stretched their colourful imaginations to the limit – how right I was! (I would like to point out to any of you that are reading this that this is not necessarily meant as a compliment)

However........here we are, and here I am with an upside down hat and lots of pieces of paper with challenges written on and I will be doing my best over the following year to complete as many as possible or at the very least to fail to complete them in an entertaining manner.

I would like to point out that the doors are not closed to new challenges but please send them to me as messages so that they’re a surprise for everyone else if they get pulled out. I reserve the right to alter or omit any that I feel are completely ‘wrong’ but will try my best to display a sense of fair play and also of the ridiculous. And if I don’t you may berate me in the comments box or desert me altogether.

I hope that some of you will join me in my journey this year and take on aspects of my challenges and comment about them and contribute to my efforts with advice and encouragement.

Lets go............