It's a new year and after dinner everyone sat around the table trading resolutions.
So many people seemed to focus on shortcomings: things that had been neglected or overlooked, that they were going to pay more attention to this time around.
But if something didn't manage to hold our intentions last time, it doesn't seen very likely to succeed for long this year either.
Surely it's better to focus on something new - a skill (say, bellydancing), a dream (becoming a photographer) or a long-held ambition (running a marathon)!
That way, we start with new energies and start acquiring different skills.
Instead of being merely remedial, our resolutions become the crystalizing step on a renewed life path.
Life Works is an ad hoc, alternative and occasionally aspirational approach to everyday life. Drawing on a combination of sense, sensibility and ancient wisdom it shows the relevance of mythic themes and archetypal figures to the modern world. Jane Bailey Bain teaches mythology in West London. Her book 'LifeWorks' was published in January 2012. For more information and further postings, visit the main LifeWorks site at http://janebaileybain.wordpress.com/
