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Looking back through 2018 and the personal highlights I talked about yesterday (I forgot to talk about my daughter’s GCSE results which were great and I was so proud) I can then look forward to 2019 and wonder what would happen then.

No doubt the professional highlight of 2018 was the trip to China and the chance to go somewhere I’d never been and meet people I didn’t know and ‘test’ myself against a different audience of people there.

It seemed to go well and going forwards I’d like to do more of that of any opportunities arise.

I have been asked to speak again for Geistlich at a big event in London in November and I hope that might be a job interview and a stepping stone to other things too.

The personal and selfish highlight was the Haute Route in the Dolomites and I’m already committed to go to Provence to do the Haute Route Ventoux with my mates Alex and Craig later on in the year.

It’ll be time to get on a bike soon to start the process for that but I know now that I can race at 12 stone and love it and have the time of my life and that has to be the target for October.

I am also going to take a trip to Majorca to ride my bike and also a crazy bike trip with the Sunday bike crew which will be amazing.

We’re designing lots of new things for this year for work and one of the new things on the horizon for the academy is the 7-day digital implant dentistry course, based around the current research that’s available in the usual format for academy Live Skills Courses. This is really exciting and is taking a lot of work to get together but watch this space it should be amazing.

Family life – I have no kids with significant exams this year but my little guy does move up to big school later on.

Alison and I will continue to survive the madness standing side by side to face whatever the world has to throw at us.

It’s time to take a big deep breath, like she usually does, turn around to look at me and say “I’ll see you at Easter”

I’ve only got three external speaking engagements so far, one in January at Nick Fahey’s BDA group and it’s the GDC lecture (newly re-written and modified) and another variation of this at the KCL Alumni Day in February. I am doing anterior GBR for Geistlich later in the year and the rest of the stuff (and there is lots of it) is, and as it should be, in our own teaching environment.

My big target this year is routine. I want to create a routine where I know what I’m doing most weeks so that I can ride my bike in a particular way, walk to work in a particular way and schedule my time and be as efficient as possible.

A big part of this is a big IT project for me to make sure I don’t have to carry computers around anyone and so I can ride my bike to and from work a lot more without anything on my bike.

Preparation for bigger things to come.

Blog Post Number: 1873