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Next year should be the most important year of my career and my work life so far.

I can begin, over the next little while, to tease out some of the stuff that’s going to be happening but for me, it will be massive.

The biggest thing I’ve ever done.

It will be hard work.

In the early stages of designing a year like this from a long way away it’s very exciting and you’re filled with hope of what you might do and what you might achieve and what might happen.

Then sets in the reality of what’s required, because from that long way out it seems straightforward and simple and it’s easy to say “is everyone up for this?” without understanding what that means on a day-to-day basis.

For that reason, to do and to make something special takes a lot of work, a lot of emotion and a lot of energy.

That means pushing aside other stuff to make space in your head and your life for the thing you’re trying to do right now and that creates a frustration.

I have the dread of “what happens if this thing doesn’t work?” and you realise that all of a sudden hope starts to fade and diminish.

Without hope life is, well, hopeless and hopeless is bad.

Hope is what gets us up in the morning, even if we only have a little bit of it left in the tank. It’s what makes us do this thing that might allow us to create something better or change someone or help someone, be that us or family or friends or strangers in the street.

It’s also the hope that you will see things or do things that you might have been unable to do which will make you a better, bigger, brighter person.

When this year is done there are other things I want to do, quite a lot of other things.

But there are some specific things I want to do for myself because the things I want to do this year are not for me, they’re for lots of people.

So, some of the hope that I want to build into the mechanism here is a selfish hope, to create a space to allow me to do some really cool stuff selfishly and for myself, while the machine that helps other people just runs in the background.

Years ago, one of my favourite bands of all time, Idlewild, produced an album called ‘Hope is Important’.

Can’t say it any clearer than that.

Blog Post Number: 1856