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The Gift of 2020 - What a Year!
This year has been a very different year compared to most. My end-of-year message to my wonderful clients, partners and followers is usually where I quote a Christmas song, but this year I've decided to include one of my favourite songs which I feel depicts 2020 and how many people have been.
It's been great to see people "being human". This is the very ethos of my business, and I hope to have always lived by this value in my career. This year has, at times, been less than easy - but I've seen so many great positives too. I feel I've learnt about myself, and have become even more comfortable with who I am as a leader.
These are my thoughts below. Rather than the 12 days of Christmas, they are presented in the 12 months of 2020!
January - A fresh new year
February - Challenge the norm
March - The world turned upside down
April - How quickly we learn!
May - Will it ever end?
June - A ray of sunshine
July - Don't count your chickens
August - What holiday?
September - School's back
October - We thought we were getting back to normal..?
November - Take two
December - Who knows? But that's OK!
Realise, aspire to, and do what M.H. Clark asks you to do:
"No, you will never be perfectly perfect.
But you will be incredibly, strikingly, heart-swellingly wonderful.
You will be a human being who is doing everything you can with everything you have.
You will be a human being who is getting better at the work and challenge of life.
You will be a human being who takes what you are given and makes something remarkable with it.
In fact, you already are!"
Best wishes for a peaceful festive period. I'm signing off from now until January the 4th, but please contact me in the meantime and I'll reply ASAP.
Jacqueline
These are my thoughts below. Rather than the 12 days of Christmas, they are presented in the 12 months of 2020!
January - A fresh new year
February - Challenge the norm
March - The world turned upside down
April - How quickly we learn!
May - Will it ever end?
June - A ray of sunshine
July - Don't count your chickens
August - What holiday?
September - School's back
October - We thought we were getting back to normal..?
November - Take two
December - Who knows? But that's OK!
Realise, aspire to, and do what M.H. Clark asks you to do:
"No, you will never be perfectly perfect.
But you will be incredibly, strikingly, heart-swellingly wonderful.
You will be a human being who is doing everything you can with everything you have.
You will be a human being who is getting better at the work and challenge of life.
You will be a human being who takes what you are given and makes something remarkable with it.
In fact, you already are!"
Best wishes for a peaceful festive period. I'm signing off from now until January the 4th, but please contact me in the meantime and I'll reply ASAP.
Jacqueline
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