Weeknotes #9
Quiet Resolve? Apply Within.
This week has mainly been about me aiming (aka failing) to not be grumpy about getting up early. I had a really good break over the year end which allowed my night-owl to take over. I choose to start my working day early — always feels like a near-killer getting back into it though.
It’s weeknotes #10 next week which will be my retrospective. I’m mixed about writing weeknotes as I may be muddying their purpose and scope? I can’t be open about my 9–5 currently, I share a few reflections outside that and I only give myself sufficient time to write about a couple of themes each week. Whatever I decide I’m definitely going to keep thinking out-loud. I’m aiming to write and share more. And I’m a weeknotes reader now for sure.
World Introvert Day
It was World Introvert Day on Tuesday so in untypical Katie-style I hit Twitter quite hard (for me). Whilst I don’t agree that Jo is old(!) I do agree that maybe with age and experience we become better at being relaxed alone and the FOMO reduces.
In a previous working life I did a lot of training and public speaking to large groups and have gotten out of practice over the last few years. I’m getting back into it and have spoken about being ‘the quiet one’. Understandably people have asked why I’ve started doing this again if I’m mainly an introvert who needs plenty of alone-time.
It took me a while to find and articulate those reasons and it was a light-bulb moment for me last year. And, importantly, I’m enjoying writing and speaking out loud. I just need to plan my alone-time too:
Then there’s this:
And a related themes across the weeknotes/posts I read on here too — from Sam Villis, Neil Tamplin and Dyfrig Williams which I find encouraging.
No grand resolutions — which doesn’t mean 2018 can’t be a grand year.
And finally….
There’s a theme this week which I’m summarising as: being focused, doing the right things for me, changing as I go and ‘not-doing’ the right things too. I’m fairly good at alot of that — it’s the focus I need to work on next to get this year fully moving.
