Happy New Year!

Aw, it's all over and we're into a brand spanking new year.

Well I'm back and rearing to go. :) New years resolutions? Try and not be such an arrogant little so and so and attempt to be a little more patient and understanding. I have this tendency to become impatient with people who don't understand what I am trying to communicate and assume that they are morons. *laugh* I know it's not nice and I am going to try and be a little more patient and as my maths teacher wrote on my report at school: must try harder.

Number two: Learn to chill out a bit more and be a little easier on myself. That sounds a little self centred but it isn't. I'm realising it's nigh on impossible to be of any use to anyone else if I can't look after myself.

Number three: Focus on building self awareness. I've had two people tell me over the last few months how I can sometimes come across as a little scary and condescending. This came as a shocker to me. Both occasions I was completely unaware of how I appeared to others. It made me think back to the Johari Window that we studied at college, and I think that I need to have a good look at that blindspot window: Unknown by the self and known by others. I'm not going to beat myself up over it but it is interesting as I'd always thought that I was fairly self aware and to have this shown to me took me by surprise.