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Travelling with intent

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Richard Merrick
Oct 23, 2020
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It's difficult right now for most of us.

We're used to dealing with an amount of uncertainty, in certain parts of our lives, now and again.

Today however, we're faced with multiple uncertainties, from Cornonavirus to Climate Change, and it's affecting many parts of our lives from our ability to earn a living today, to whether our job will be there tomorrow, and if so, what it will look like.

As we move into winter, the background constant uncertainty as to what weather it will bring and how it will affect us.

The certainties we have been brought up on are failing, from assuming our education would get us a job, to assuming that job would provide a pension, to the level of confidence we have in our leaders in most spheres of our lives.

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