on life and leadership
I just got back to the office from the ‘holidays’. I knew there were a lot of important and urgent things awaiting. I successfully resisted the urge to work and tried to focus on building a reserve of strength I’d need when I got back. As I imagined things are as I had imagined. At the start …
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I woke up on the first day of the year, to do something I’d been talking about for almost exactly a year. (We know how we can talk more than we can act). Since we’ve lived walking distance from the sea for a year I’ve been talking about how I wanted to learn how to …
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This is the time of the year New Year’s Resolutions are declared. There was a time I thought it was dumb. When I realised I was being part jerk I stopped ridiculing people who were setting goals for themselves. I concluded: what anyone calls their goals or aspirations for a new year doesn’t matter. The great thing …
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Writing is, by nature, introspective. It is reflexive. It demands self-review. It requires the very best and worst of us to be brought into the light. It is accountability made manifest. It is ugly and beautiful and it is most certainly you. It is glorious — John Saddington This is John Saddington on writing. Writing, …
Holidays or vacations are great things. If used properly they can help you recharge and recoup. This, of course, is based on the assumption that you’ve been working hard and need the time out. Both our physical and mental energies need restoration often. Balance is a myth. Healthy tensions in normal (whatever that is), everyday …
