Something I have been putting off for a while now, is digging up the horrible truths of how my December of 2022 went…. It wasn’t great. I was very VERY low. No motivation, no ambition, lonely, unproductive and I was constantly late. Late for work, pizza commitments, friends, bedtimes. The works.
December isn’t usually a great month for me. Too many tragic events, memories, anniversaries and loved ones I can’t be with, for one reason or tother. I usually can’t wait for them 31 days to fly by in 31 seconds. But, inevitably, they don’t. They linger, coldly, like the chill air. Wrapping around me and biting deep with icy penetration. I hate it. 2022 was particularly bad.
I was off social media. Just had a profile running for my two business pages, with only one friend – the deleted ‘Me’ And thusly, I SHOULD have got no feed. But this guy Paul Mort kept popping up. Couldn’t place it. But I knew this name. He’s a coach, motivational speaker and the like. Ah – he’s from South Shields.. thats it!! No, it was something else. Then it twigged. My ex wife used to bash on about this guy ten years ago when she was into the whole self help stuff.. Ha! And now here’s ME – the irony! And then the penny dropped…we used to sell his ‘Wonderful Greens’ product or whatever it was, for her weight loss program. There – placed that jigsaw piece.
Anyway – I started reading some of his stuff and around this time two years ago, he hosted a ‘Make next year your best year ever’ Free webinar. Naturally, my curiosity compelled me to sign up…. and the rest as they say, is history. I took some great things away from that evening, but more importantly it set me onto a new path and down a million new and exciting rabbit holes. You could almost say – it ‘saved me’
Take a look at some extracts from my journal for December 2022
December 2022
Thurs 1st– Alarm set wrongly. One hour late for work
Fri 2nd – Feeling very down, lonely and isolated.
Sat 3rd – Up at 10am. Pizza gig – 10 mins late. Not by much, but enough to make an impact. NOT good!!!!
Sun 4th – Pub. 5 pints. Bed at 1am.
Tues 6th – Sluggish. No motivation.
Wed 7th – Up at 10ish. Seen Paul Mort on FB and emailed him. Had to cash in £40 worth of £2 coin savings. Bed at 2am
Fri 9th – Tired. Bed at 1am
Sat 10th – Fell asleep on sofa and went to bed at 4am
Sun 11th – PAUL MORT CALL ‘Make 2023 your best year yet’ – got SO much from it.
Mon 12th – Bed at 1am
Tues 13th – late for work. Bed 1130. No drink
Wed 14th – Up at 9am, MUST get up earlier. Went to bed drunk at 5am
Thurs 15th – Up at 1030
Fri 16th – Fell asleep on sofa til 7am.
Sat 17th – went to a party. Bed at 330am
Sun 18th – Up at 1pm!!
Wed 21st – Bed at 230am
Sat 24th – After 2 days of massages in the N.East, did South Shields park run then a dip in the sea.
Made a Christmas meal with my friend. Bed 2.30am
Christmas Day– Up at 10 am. Housework. Went for a pint at Dufton then my pals invited me over to Haltwhistle for the evening
A life lived without any discipline, planning, structure or goals to target will lead you somewhere. But you can pretty much guess that that somewhere won’t be down the paths you’d like to be venturing down!
Tonight, two years after that call and month of December, I’m no longer known as someone who is late. I don’t drink every night. I’m rarely off to bed after midnight. And NOT getting up by 8am at the very latest, just isn’t me now. I have goals, energy and drive to succeed and GROW. Its all about Growth – getting better every day, in just the smallest of ways. Yes, growth over the opposite – which is stagnation. Just the SOUND of the word ‘To STAGNATE’ – makes you think of pools of murky, green, stagnant water. That ain’t for me. Growth, you think of plants and trees and flowers and nature.
We have a choice. Continue down a path of growth. Or stay still and stagnant. We only get one chance at life, and its easy to let things slide and stray off the path to doing great and exciting things. Its all within us – it just needs unlocked sometimes.
Tonight I’m hosting my very first Webinar entitled
“How to Make 2025 Your Best Year in AGES” – and its free and aims to help as many people as I possibly can. Just like I found that help two years ago. Come and join us please 🙂
Topic: Make 2025 Your Best Year in Ages!
Time: Dec 17, 2024 07:00 PM London
Join Zoom Meeting
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/81402124094?pwd=J92API8wt8gwBrtaqoL1opOh1kEtVt.1
Meeting ID: 814 0212 4094
Passcode: 785856