LIVE24SEVEN // Motoring, Sport & Entertainment K AT E JUS T I C E – THE L I S T Happy New Year!
Kate Justice is planning her lists of chores with momentum
Ooo, how exciting – a brand new year! And with that, the annual opportunity to create a brand new you. Well, I say annual – I try it most Mondays… but it hasn’t worked for the last 12 months, so I clearly need a more momentous peg to hang it on.
I could go into the usual chat about New Year’s Resolutions and all the statistics of how many weeks they last etc, but in fact I am not making any resolutions this year; I am making a very big list instead.
I love a list.
The list is going to contain all the undone jobs from 2017 and some organisation goals. The delicious thing about writing them on the 2018 list is that they can be beautifully crossed off the 2017 one. It’s like packing your ironing pile when you move house (which I have done). I know it seems like I am doomed to fail and that in 12 month’s time, I will be moving the same things onto the 2019 list, but the start of a whole new year, does motivate me, even if only a bit. This in turn means I can enjoy December so much more as I’m not procrastinating about sorting out my underwear drawer and vacuuming behind the bedside tables. No need! Those jobs are on NEXT year’s list. Hurrah!
There is a small downside though… once January is over and the year feels less new, the following 11 months seem to stretch ahead with a sense of infinity… which in turn, completely removes any
sense of urgency. (February and March tend to be rather unproductive months for me but at the New Year stage, this seems to escape me.)
I sometimes meet people who appear highly motivated and organised. I have been meaning to wash the dog beds and clean out the fridge for about the last 18 Mondays. The pile of paperwork is like Mount Vesuvius. How do these people avoid ‘putting it off’? January can be so dull… it takes this long, cold month when everyone is partied out and no one has any money for me to eventually knuckle down and do the mundane stuff of life.
Like the tax return. Annoyingly it’s that – looming like the grim reaper that tends to soak up most of the first month of the year. And I know I’m not alone on that one. 2018 might be slightly different though – we have a Royal wedding on the horizon and now that we know it’s on FA Cup Final day, it feels like an even more enormous occasion. When Charles and Diana got married, I was six years old and my parents had a huge street party. It is one of my earliest memories of socialising with adults – something I like to do rather a lot now.
As one year draws to an end and the festivities rage on, it can be gloomy to peer, bleary eyed into a tax and rain filled January, which is why the top item on my List For 2018 is:
1) A party a week.
How much do you think this will scupper getting the rest of the items done? I guess it will take until December 31st to find out!
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