Pete's Eats

I have a feeling that 2006 is going to be a challenging year in the best possible way. Challenging perceptions, methods and beliefs will be the hallmark of my year I suspect. Why do I think this? No idea, but intuition isn’t normally too far from the resulting reality – for me anyway.

In the past year I have made some tough decisions about my professional life. For instance, amongst other things, I made some conscious decisions to not speak at certain events or make my voice heard at others (there *is* a difference). I turned down three book offers. I blogged less and I openly criticised a certain company that makes web development tools about their abominable track record developing a mobile platform and watched the doors close on me with startling speed. I refused to take part in the 15 or so magazine articles that I was asked to write for and I spent far too much time playing World of Warcraft! I don’t know, yet, whether these were the right decisions to make but I have never been one to stay in a rut for too long and I’m very good at forcing change on myself. 2005 has been a good year for that.

I want 2006 to take the best bits of 2000-2005 and develop them further. I have, for the first time in my life, some very definite plans for what I want to be doing in 2006 and that feels very good.

On my radar for the next 6 months:

• I have had a book idea for some time, now is the time to get it drafted
• I’m Tokyo-bound
• I’m LA/SFO-bound
• Working on a fairly major social networking project
• Developing Musicblog even further
• Get to the mountains more!

There’s more obviously, but it’s New Year’s Eve and I’m fairly sure you’ve all got much better things to be doing than reading this! All that’s left to say is:

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

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