Is the word “interstitial“? A Gibson word meaning a place in between.

The days between Christmas and new year always seem like a place in between. It is a quiet time when not much happens, where there is a relative peace in business and a lot of folk on holiday. Here in Western Australia it is hot. The beach beckons but so does the airconditioning in my office.

I’m using this time in between to think a lot about the future, about my future. I’m enjoying it so much I might even make this time of year always for that. I like taking the time before new years to come up with some resolutions. I enjoy that ritual a lot.

I’ve written up my new years resolutions as a keynote presentation. Maybe I’ll summon the guts to post the whole thing. But for now, here are my core resolutions:

• keep my inner child safe
• find self awareness
• regular exercise
• daily writing from the heart

Big stuff. I got to these core resolutions by making all the “next year i want to…” statements into a directed graph, where I worked out what was going to be needed to get my wants to come true. These four core things seem to be the big issues for me.

The last one is interesting. Seems that a lot of things for me come back to writing as a tool of awareness and self expression. More blogging from the heart, eh?