The Longest Week

I know I’m not the only one who feels like this has been the longest week on record. I’ve seen images posted to Instagram with captions such as “The Mondayest Friday” and “Well, 2021 is the worst year ever”. They’re not wrong. Here in the UK, we felt like there was the light at the…

20-20 Vision (revisited)

I’ve been thinking about writing this blog for a few weeks now. I’ve been thinking a lot about the joke of setting a vision for 2020 – at the time it felt inspired, it felt like the world was my oyster, it felt like anything was possible. The reality is, that as much as it…

Feeling… broken

Here in the UK, we received the news yesterday that after over 3 weeks of social distancing, we will continue as we are for another 3 weeks. This news isn’t altogether unsurprising. If you didn’t see this coming, you were being very naive.They say it takes 31 days to build new habits, so it shouldn’t…

Coronavirus coping mechanisms

So how are you coping with this new normal? Have you come to terms with what the implications of what this means? I haven’t, and I’m willing to wager you haven’t either. I’m a really lucky person. I work for an organisation which didn’t instantly lay-off most of it’s staff, and was able to set…