PHOTOGRAPHS: GARETH MORGANS, PAUL MITCHELL
One of the things I love about January (and I’m guessing many of you are surprised by my use of the word ‘love’) is the freedom from to-do lists. If there are lists, they tend to be ideas for where to go on holiday or piles of papers and cupboards you’d like to sort out at home. The beauty of those lists is that they don’t bring pressure with them – if you want to, you can ignore them or even tear them up. That’s why I avoid new year resolutions. I’m all for taking time to breathe and think and decide what might be enjoyable to do – or do differently – in the 12 months ahead, but as soon as that activity is connected to denial and setting yourself up to fail it becomes a pressure; the opposite of a lightness of being.