Number 6 - maintain control of your emotions.

This is so, so important. Your emotions are deliberately targeted to manipulate and exploit you.

You can't control how you react emotionally to something, but you can control how you respond.

Fuck me it's a hard road.

At some point, if you keep working hard enough the façade becomes reality.

We actually, in hindsight, had a really good 2022. We travelled interstate three times (no mean feat in Australia), got to Hawaii, and I finally managed to land the job I've been targeting for three years.

The journey I've had to get that job was costly in mental health terms, and confirmed some thoughts I had about some senior people involved that process.

So, even thought it was a successful year, it's come at some cost and it's not a journey I'd care to repeat...but we're now, so let's roll into 2023 and get on with it!