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When you woke up this morning, did you think about your day? Did you think about going to work, getting a sandwich, maybe calling your mum? Did you think about getting into bed tonight?

The saying goes ‘assume and you make an ass out of you and me’, and yet assumptions are in our nature. We’re hard-wired to learn from the past and establish patterns of behaviour, so sunk into our day-to-day routines that change seems virtually outlandish. These are tiny subconscious assumptions, but the habit spreads. We assume we’ll be invited somewhere, that someone else has taken care of a task or that we have to look after someone. We assume we’ll never be able to achieve the dream we have.  We assume our loved ones will be there when we go to sleep tonight.

I’m not saying don’t make assumptions. I’m not even saying be thankful for what you have. I’m just saying be aware it might not always be the way you think. Take what you’ve got and run with it, nothing is fixed.

1) Darwin, our step-kitty

2) £23.95 to the Crisis Christmas Appeal

3) The motley contents of Wetherspoons, dressed in my Michelin-man outfit