I'm a sucker for fresh starts and new beginnings.

One of my favourite things to do is to start writing in a new notebook... Preferably with a new pen. Neat handwriting. Clean. Ah! The promise of many more pages still to be written.

And yes - page 3 isn't as aesthetically pleasing.
The first scribbles appear by page 10.
Towards the end my handwriting becomes almost illegible.

And that's OK.

That's life. It gets messy. It's real. You keep going remembering what’s really important: what you’re writing, not how you’re doing it.

Still, I enjoy starting new things.

That's what a new year is to me - the promise of a new, crisp, white page in a notebook.