Into the second month of the year

Janaury seems like the quickest month ever and at the same time the slowest. The beginning was spent with a quiet new year, seeing family and meeting Ben's maternal grandmother for the first time, all of which seems an age ago.

Since then Ive been super busy at work training seven new entrants who are all fresh from college, without much experience of the working world and with no idea what an annuity is. I'm their trainer for 8-10 weeks with my friend and colleauge Lauren. Today was tough as one of the newbies is seriously underperforming compared to the rest and I had to give feedback to my manager so he could consider if it's going to be worth spending time training him. Being a trainer takes much more time than a normal 35 hour week.

As a result January has flown by and I haven't started on many of my new resolutions, which are:

1. Lose winter/Christmas weight and maintain enough for the nurse to not look condescending at my next checkup
2. Whip finances into shape
3. Invest time and effort in a lot of relationships - increasingly this is turning out to be important at work as well in order to progress
4. Practise flute - I don't want this skill to rust any more than it already has
5. Complete my Certificate in Financial Planning 1 - boring but has to be done, another work thing
6. Finish my patchwork quilt - a project I've had going for many years since I was given a kit one Christmas. It's made steady but very slow progress and I'd like to have it hanging on the wall by the end of the year.