Reflections 2nd January 2022

On my mind.

Whilst the end of the year is a precious time for reflection and stilling, the beginning of a new year is energising, There are those few days of promise and idealism, the very stuff of resolutions (and maybe revolutions), before for most the routines and obligations of the old year come calling and we find ourselves, like coming back from a leadership course, sinking back into an unthreatening “normal,’ with all the idealism filed under “later”

Maybe not this year.

After two years of pandemic disruption, we now know with a great degree of clarity whether we are part of a group who want to genuinely explore the opportunities that have appeared, or those who would rather return gratefully to the comfortable familiar.

Whichever camp we fall into, I suspect we all sense the same seismic changes building in the way that seismometers and radon gas detectors pick up the early signs of a coming earthquake. Our choice becomes to hope, or to prepare. So how do we prepare for something …