Humbug!After two years of the ongoing covid shitshow disrupting plans, testing our limits and challenging our tolerance and resilience we could all be forgiven for feeling pretty Bah Humbug right now. This time last year, 2021 was full of promise, but for many another year of uncertainty stretched coping mechanisms to breaking point and beyond, and to find ourselves here, a week before Christmas surrounded by yet more bleak news, chaos and indecision feels completely surreal - as if the year we have just experienced has taken us nowhere. No matter how shit a hand 2021 may have dealt you however, there will have been progress. There will have been goals achieved, and lessons learned from the ones we didn’t quite manage, or missed by a country mile. Achievements celebrated, questions asked and answered, stands taken, positions adopted, new relationships made, new experiences experienced and more familiar things experienced in different ways. Some of us will have had challenges forced upon us and some will have undertaken them willingly. There will have been endings, and beginnings, and a whole lot of the squidgy stuff in the middle. We may not be where we expected to be right now, but we can all reflect on the journey, whether it felt like a wild ride or a gentle saunter. As my final freebie of the year, I’ve uploaded some prompts to help you reflect as we bring 2021 to a close. Just click the big pink button at the bottom of this email, grab a notepad and pen, turn off your phone and prepare to get reflective.
There are no prizes or punishments - unless you want to reward yourself with a hefty helping of your festive treat of choice – so go into this with a curious mind and use what you find to set you up for the year to come.
If you want to share any observations on 2021, or your intentions for your so-called career in 2022, or perhaps you have questions of your own that help you reflect on your so-called career that you think others might benefit from too, you know I love to hear from you. Whatever you do, take care, and whether it goes to plan or not, I hope you have a bloody lovely Christmas! Thanks for being such an awesome bunch this year 💖 Penny
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