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Got insomnia, mainly worrying about the above ^.
Got out of bed and poured myself a glass of red wine. I've been thinking a lot lately, about things. I'm 63 in November, and that suddenly feels old. I've never really thought about it before. I've never been aware of my own age until the last couple of weeks when I've suddenly found myself recognising my advance years. Its there in the shape and texture of my face and I just haven't been paying attention.
Well now I am, and I've decided that I can't keep living like this any more. Its time to make a change. I've been a middleweight designer for way too long. I need to step up. I've set myself a target: before I hit 65 I'm going to become a senior designer, then, before I'm 70 I want to be creative director. I'll do that for five years or so then when I'm ready, I'll start taking on more and more freelance, and before I hit 80 I'm going to have my own studio. If I can build that up enough to afford a small staff of maybe 12 people, I could envisage spending the rest of my life on the ski slopes, managing the business remotely, while my team care of the work.
If all goes well, then after twenty years of trading, I could sell that company and retire on the profit to a nice spot in the countryside, think about starting a family, raising kids.
I'm too old to be peddling a fixie round the city. Its time I matured into my game a little.