Where did 2007 go? Plus my resolutions….
2007. 12 months. 52 weeks. 365 days. Where the heck did it go?!
What a year. A year of big change.
It’s been an amazing year, and getting to the end of it, I feel better than ever! There has been some major changes in my life. Probably the biggest change was with work. I left a company that I had been with for 11 years. It was a huge relief. The last two years had been, well, pretty awful. An aggressive, fake, uninspiring environment and many people who I would not give the time of day to out of the office. Rewarded for subservience and toeing the line, it suddenly started to be a place where I did not want to be. Working with people who were bullies, with HUGE chips on their shoulders, on a daily basis put a big strain on me. A lost a huge amount of weight, and never felt truly happy.
What I don’t miss about working for that company:
- Meetings with no purpose and no agenda
- The incredibly low level of communication skills
- The total lack of computer skills – “how do I create a folder Jon?!”
- The lack of imagination
- The aggressive, bullying culture which was supposed to be stamped out but was actually made worse
- The mobile phone ringtones
- The conferences
- The politics
- The fact that 98% people don’t bother staying in touch when you leave
- There is a lot more!
Excitement and fun
So what now? Having left in August, I started getting my life back, and started to enjoy life again. Kate was an absolute star. She looked after me, gave me advice, loved me and made me smile. Every day. I owe her a BIG thanks. I am now working for someone I like, me! 
I’ ve started out on my own, and now work as a photographer (I’m in the process of updating jonmossphotography.com) and a Marketing Consultant (again, just started developing the website for theappleofmyi.com). It has been so much fun and so exciting to set up my own businesses and I have learnt a lot and continue to learn every day. I also have a couple of other projects on the go, which I will announce shortly! I’m really pumped and looking forward to progressing them!
Looking back on 2007
One of the nice things about writing a Blog is looking back and seeing what I did, so that is what I am going to do now!
January
The year started off with a great photo, and a post similar to this. We had the momentous news of Apple’s iPhone, which I waited 10 months for! Phil Schiller started showing off the fabled device and I started lusting about it. It is rare to know about something, that you know that you will be buying in 10 months time, with a concrete level of certainty.
February
Blogged about the new Apple Airport Extreme, and yes, I did get one! Now running a g and n network, so we have 3 devices on one network and 3 on the older g network. I also saw this Alpine Head unit and we’ve actually bought a couple of these, spooky!
March
The best sounding Porsche Carrera GT in the world, a great picture of the Orso Bianco in Sauze (where I am going very soon!), the Canon 1D MkII intro video (ended up getting this and it rocks!), Nick got his Ducati 1098s (called Dennis) and after quite a few hiccups, and very poor service from the dealership he bought it from, he finally started to enjoy it! I managed to convert 5 people over to Macs during the year, including our good friends, Richard and Nicky – Richard really was fed up with Windoze! There was another Apple purchase (surprise, surprise!) with the arrival of an Apple HiFi. This thing sounds awesome!
With my cleaning fetish, I always like looking at Method products from the States, and I even blogged about a new mop they have launched,a and Kate brought me one back for my birthday this year! Perhaps a resolution this year is less time spent on the Macs – I had a few late nights online during the year
I’m going to continue to look back at 2007 in the next few days as this is taking longer than anticipated! Lots more to cover:
- Trip to Oz (and the unplanned stay in Singapore!)
- Trip to Boston
- An Enzo moment
- NY and Warren, Connecticut
- Supercar Sunday
- Trip to the Nurburgring
- Starting a new business
- My business brands
- Leopard launch
- iPhone launch
For now, I am going to sign off for 2007 with what I am going to focus on in 2008, so I suppose these are my resolutions….
1. Enjoy every day with Kate – she is a star! (to put up with me!)
2. Give amazing value and benefit to clients, both for my marketing consultancy business and my photography
3. Get all my websites up and running
4. Exercise more
5. Eat more healthily
6. Do some charity work – probably for the local Animal welfare group
7. Go ski-ing 3 times
8. Manage our finances sensibly
9. Read more books
10. Generate £X per month so we can enjoy life! (I’ll let you decide what the X stands for!)
So, it’s nearly 11pm, and we have only one left of 2007. How do I feel going into 2008? Bloody great. Kate and I have a wonderful year ahead I am sure, and well beyond that. I cannot believe how much happier I feel now compared to at the beginning of the year. I really do feel a new person – exhilarated, excited and knowing that I can get up in the morning and enjoy what I do. That is something that I had stopped doing a long time ago, and it was crushing. Thanks goodness I have changed my life and feel so much better for it!
Have a great 2008, and many thanks for reading this blog! See you next year!! 
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