So like may new people this is my very first blog. I hope it won’t be my last.

I have decided to start a blog to challenge and motivate myself. I figure if I say I’m going to do something on my blog and I know people are watching I will do it…… that’s my hope anyway.

So I’m in  my mid forties, and I really believed that by the time I got here I would have a handle on life. I thought I would know what I was doing, where I was heading, how to make good choices. Basically at turning 40 I thought everything would just fall into place and life would be good, easier. At 40 I’d know what I wanted to do for the rest of my life. No more bad decisions or choices. Clearly I was very naïve. Age does not necessarily bring wisdom, either that or I’m not old enough yet…. maybe it comes at 50.

So instead of waiting to see if wisdom comes at 50 I’m going to go look for it. I’m going to look at my finances and making better choices, saving for my retirement, getting health and stronger, building a stronger relationship with my husband and children, finding out the things I want to do and getting rid of or minimising the things I don’t.

So here goes nothing or everything depending on how you look at. My first new learnt words of wisdom, specially for a person whos known to put her foot in her mouth, come from Homer Simpson…