My Exploration

It’s already nearly half-way through February. Does that shock you? A lot has happened in my year so far, but I don’t think I was quite prepared for the fact that it is truly well underway. This is essentially my first week back at work for the year after being away for 2 weeks (I did work 3 weeks in January, but it certainly doesn’t feel like it counts). The two weeks were a fairly intensive sprint of family time, and family time and more family time. I have a lot of family, so it takes quite a bit of time and energy to really spend quality time with everyone, or as many people as possible. It was really refreshing though, not in a physical sense because I am certainly tired, but in a re-centering sense. I feel as if I have been able to reconnect with family and re-centre the value of family in my life – which is quite invigorating.

While the family time away had the most impact, there are a couple of other things that I’ve been doing that have helped as well. Nearing the end of 2010, I decided that I wanted to make a few changes in my life, or tick off a few of the things that I keep saying I want to do and yet haven’t done. The first was to apply to put in two pieces of art into an art competition – I didn’t really care whether I would win or not, it is more that I have wanted to do something of this kind for a while. The other big decision I made was to enroll back into Uni. Which I have done – into a graduate course in applied statistics. I have wanted to move out of the IT field for a while. My interest in it becomes less and less as the years move on, so this is one step towards moving out of the field. I’m pretty excited.

I also have a number of other plans for the year which I hope will work out, but I guess we’ll just have to wait and see.