Victoria's View | 6 January 2026

Hiya Hinchinbrook Shire,

Are you feeling refreshed and ready for the new year? I hope everyone enjoyed their Christmas holidays and had a fantastic New Year's celebration surrounded by friends and loved ones. A new year brings new opportunities and a fresh start. Wishful resolutions are fine, but how about we set feasible goals?

Planning and preparedness are familiar concepts in regional areas like ours, particularly in terms of survival through our wonderful seasons, but how about in the matter of living? What enjoyment will you try or pursue this year? And once you have that goal in mind, break it down into the steps to achieve it. Take learning a new instrument or travelling to a new place (very popular New Year's resolutions) and actually set yourself the steps to achieve them.

Like applying for a passport or booking a term of music lessons. The small first steps can seem the hardest hurdle, but once complete, the rest can be smooth sailing if you stick with the process. Great, you now have your travel documents or you now know the basic chords, the rest of the resolution to be a rockstar or climb Mt Everest are at least feasible goals you could reach now.

Have fun and enjoy the journey to the resolution as much as achieving the goal itself. Happy New Year, Hinchinbrook!

Victoria

Fun Fact: My resolution last year was to start horse riding again. Get back in the saddle, so to speak, now I have set myself the goal to perfect my canter and the resolution to jump higher in horsesports than I did last year.

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