That usual end-of-year review

In a few day, it will be the Winter Solstice. The shortest day of the year and the beginning of the return to longer days. I’ve always felt that it is a special time of year. For me, the Winter Solstice feels like a better New Year to celebrate.

So 2022. While it was much more open and productive than 2021, it still felt much of the same. I did more stuff. We traveled to more places and went overseas for the first time in three years.

I started the Spring out by joining the Overland trail Agents program. It’s a way to help build and maintain biking and other multi-use trails in the Northern Colorado area. Part of joining was to get back involved in the local mountain bike group and have a pressure point that would make us get out and ride. I could have and should have gone out on more trail days. But it was a start getting back to the place I used to be and a place I want to be back in.

All of 2022 felt like a restart. This year you had grand plans and were able to act on them. The two previous years were all plans, and unable to put them into action. Yeah! Improvement.

As the end of the solar year comes up, I’m in a better place than I was at the start. The start point was a good place to be over the previous years.

And what about 2023? This is where I have to put ideas down and make them real. Once you put them out there, you commit to them. Outcomes are easy to break if you are the only one who knows about them.

With 2022 as a warm-up, I’m set to have more adventures and travels in 2023. It’s all about planning. I also intend to be in better shape by the end of the year and to have something written or posted on the blog at least twice a week. More volunteer trail hours are planned. And 2023 is going to be the year of spending more time outside.

Life is about doing. You have to be careful about getting stuck in the planning mode. Plans needn’t be perfect; they need to be acted on. Passion is built by doing, not thinking about it.

Just get out and do.