Sometimes you need to sit down, consider and re-appraise.

That I guess is the easy part. The harder part is making a start on what you have decided. Pushing yourself to move in a new direction, to take on new habits

So, here’s my list of new starts - let’s see how I get on :

• I need to start giving back more when blogging : more links to people, more comments on blogs, more response to those who comment. After all, it is better to give than to receive.

• The fact is I need to make a start on my CV, put it around and start to take control of my career - in whichever direction it goes.

• My career can be charted by what people say about how I spend my day. It used to be “All you do is play with computers” now it’s “All you do is talk on the phone”. I need to start playing with computers again, to get back to the buzz of making this talk to that - even if it is for my own amusement.

• Out is the new in After a summer of long evenings and nights sitting out with the fire it’s time to start going out again. There’s a whole list of music, films, opera and theatre I want to try to see before Christmas.

• Sitting at a desk all day long does nothing for ones waistline - I need to start getting out and exercising and the best exercise is walking around with a camera so…

• I need to start challenging how I take pictures and to try to get out of the style I have at the moment.

So, there we have it. A lot of challenges, some things I’ve tried to start and failed and some things which are new.

Thanks to Jonathan over at BlogFriday for this weeks idea, it certainly made me think …