First of all, Happy New Year! Hope you had a great night on NYE, and are ready to take on 2009 with plenty of gusto.

Secondly, thank you to everyone who commented and emailed me suggestions for what I should try and complete in January. I have now developed a new plan, for how to tackle the remaining goals. And I am confident that it will help me get this project back on track.

I took a step back and thought ‘I have 140-odd goals to go, and 50 months to do them’. So really, if I can complete three a month here on out, I will be successful.

So at the start of each month, from here on out, I will pick four goals from the list (three plus a back-up), and put all of my focus on them.

On top of this, I will work on half a dozen ‘progress goals’, which require more than a month to complete (for example, I have on this list that I need to read the first Harry Potter book, for goal 103).

This list then gets printed off, and stuck to my wall, for me to cross off during the month.

So, what is on January’s list?

- Goal 167 – Have acupuncture

- Goal 68 – Drink two litres of water every day for a month

- Goal 114 – Go to a public place in my pyjamas (this will be done on Jan 10 at Piccadilly Circus, for anyone interested)

- Goal 78 – See 10 live performances (I have seen nine so far, so one live gig this month would make it ten)

Feel free to make nominations for February – some of the nominations already in will be in my February list, but feel free to keep suggesting away.