#60: 2008

First of all, I hope that all of my readers had a brilliant Christmas, and I wish you all a very happy New Year. I’ve got a few resolutions, but a few of them are personal and so I won’t be bombarding you all with details of them.

One resolution I can tell you about though is my desire to get to work on time from now onwards. Ever since I started this job, I’ve had a persistent problem with getting here on time. I was OK at first as I wanted to make a good impression, but after a couple of months I started to lapse a bit, usually in pursuit of ten minutes more sleep in the mornings. Nobody said anything, so I never gave myself the psychological kick up the arse to actually sort myself out.

The reality was that although people noticed that I was always 5-10 minutes late, nobody ever said anything about it. There were a few jokes made about it but always for a laugh, and management never told me off for it. I’ve always known that my lateness was fairly unacceptable, but I think I was just content with allowing it to happen, provided I could get my extra time in bed in the mornings.

This is not going to happen any more. I have now decided that I will get to work and be at my desk at 9am every day from now on. It can’t do any harm, and getting up earlier will also enable me to have breakfast in the mornings and function a bit better during the day. Here’s to the future!