I’ve always been told that goals need to be S.M.A.R.T - if you don’t remember this acronym it doesn’t matter, because life has enough external pressures in it without needing to put them on ourselves. Instead of making specific, measurable (etc.) goals I am gentle with myself and make resolutions that I can stick to because they align with my values and make sense to me. The four things that are most important to me are my family; movement; my local community and the environm

Acacia Avenue was now a green wreck, the ivy had wound through the cracks like tickling fingers. The towering trees had almost blocked out the sun. Ferns had grown huge, their spreading fronds were the length of Zita and as high as her Mum (and her Mum was quite tall). The paving was lost under a thick layer of moss: and her house - what on earth had happened to her house? excerpt from a first draft of Zita and the Forest by Zoë aged 8 The Hidden Life of Trees by Peter Wohlle