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So, how does the new year find you? Apart from being frozen that is. Is your glass half full or half empty? Are you Raging Against the Machine or settling for risk-free Joe McElderberry? – ask a fan of TV's X Factor if you're puzzled. Thinking positively, or maybe, just slightly deluded? As British author and poet, Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) once said, ‘If you can keep your head while all about people are losing theirs...' you might just be missing the point. Well, it went something like that. Let me offer an Autobiography In Five Short Chapters, by the American actress, singer and songwriter, Portia Nelson, who died in 2001, to help answer the question. Chapter 1 I walk down the street. There is a deep hole in the sidewalk. I fall in. I am lost... I am helpless. It isn't my fault. It takes me forever to find a way out. Chapter 2 I walk down the same street. There is a deep hole in the sidewalk. I pretend I don't see it. I fall in again. I can't believe I am in the same place but, it isn't my fault. It still takes a long time to get out. Chapter 3 I walk down the same street. There is a deep hole in the sidewalk. I see it is there. I still fall in... it's a habit. My eyes are open, I know where I am. It is my fault. I get out immediately. Chapter 4 I walk down the same street. There is a deep hole in the sidewalk. I walk around it. Chapter 5 I walk down another street. Mind how you go. And all the best for 2010! Martin Horton is a director at SOLACE Enterprises

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