Happy New Year!

Following December's festive season celebrated with family and friends the end of the old year and start of the new brings a welcome chance for reflection and positive change.  The Winter Solstice is behind us and the northern hemisphere gradually continues the cycle towards the light.  An ideal time of year to consider your hopes and dreams as well as take steps toward making them happen.  Dark days may seem long but the years are short.  One of the Christmas films I enjoyed watching was Mr Magorium's Wonder Emporium starring Dustin Hoffman with the memorable line: "Life is an occasion, rise to it".  Certainly impactful it makes you want to be the best that you can be. 

So my advice for 2011, which I will endeavour to follow personally, is to open your mind, go somewhere new, try something you've always wanted to do but never have, take a different route on a regular journey, cook a dish you've never tried before, have fun.  Appreciate this moment, appreciate this day, relax and be happy.