Hello and welcome to the first letter of the new year. This letter is now going out to over 5000 of you which is truly incredible - thank you as ever for your lovely support. I know so many of you reply and I want to know that I read every single one but it’s impossible for me to reply sometimes!

That being said, I thought I’d talk about New Year’s Resolutions.

No I didn’t. That would be shit. I hate them. They’re all bollocks and they only serve to make you feel like a failure in three weeks (or three minutes in my case) when you inevitably fail.

But, if you followed my stories over NYE you would have seen that Jimmy and I spend our New Year’s Eve doing our vision boards for the year. I know it sounds wanky and very close to resolutions but I promise you it’s neither of those things.

Firstly, the problem with resolutions is that they are all about the what and not the why. They are the solution to a problem you haven’t even identified yet. If you resolution is to exercise more then it’s going to end up with you sitting on the couch eating a giant bar of dairy milk telling yourself that you’re not running because you’ve got laundry to do and secretly hating your lack of motivation and sticking power.

Urgh. It give me the willies just thinking about it.

Instead, a vision board is about the end destination, the goal, the achievement. The great thing about a vision board is that if you set the goal, the journey takes care of itself. Sure, you’ll have to work for it but the vision board means:

• You’re more motivated to do the stuff because the goal is something you’ve considered, spend time imagining and have built a relationship with.

• You’ve actually spent time thinking about what you want and don’t want out of life on a grand scale

• You’ve got a constant reminder about WHY you’re doing the WHAT when it gets hard and you just want to grab the Dairy Milk and face plant into the sofa.

So, that’s it. My little pearl of vision board wisdom. If it sounds a bit vagina whispery to you then feel free to skip but if there’s just a little bit of you that wonders if it may help then why not give it a try? What have you got to lose?

C x