This is not a post about Basketball before anyone asks. It was only recently that I realised the term "Alley Oop" was in fact anything to do with that graceful and fast paced sport. Alley Oop was the expression my father used to get himself going in the morning, it was the term my grandfather used to get my grandmother moving, and its the name of a group that a friend of mine started to get us "going". In the first two cases, it was literally to get moving physically, but in the latter case it was to inspire us to do something useful with our lives.
It is fashionable now to own a bucket list, things you want to do before a certain milestone in life, whether its pre-pregnancy, pre-retirement, post-retirement or just "sometime". The only problem is, when you are starting out on a new path, it can sometimes be a little daunting. How do you take the first step towards achieving your life goals? Perhaps you want to go bungee jumping - that might be fairly straight forward, (unless you are afraid of heights!) you pay up, you go. What if you want to learn a new language - what language, what course, self learning, online learning, Rosetta Stone or classroom based? What if you want to write a book?
So you find yourself stalled, incomplete life goals teasing you when you go on facebook and see your old school mates have posted about their trip to Latvia, or see an ex-colleague has just presented a paper at a conference, or you meet your ex-boyfriend on the street and not only is his new girlfriend beautiful, but they just got back from Tanzania, and you never did arrange that trip to Kenya that you argued about and broke up over...
The Alley Oop group was formed in an effort to move us from lethargic wishful thinkers to active participants in our own lives. It worked. This blog is one of my goals... and here I am - online presence established. Shiny and new.... now what to do with the blog design... hmmm.... and what shall I post about next....
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