2020 a year like no other ….

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Over the winter holidays, we continued our family routine of earl(ish) daily morning walks. On one of the walks, I initiated a game of what have you learnt as a result of the pandemic that you value. We had a lot of fun and passed a good hour or so. Since that conversation, I’ve spent some more time reflecting on 2020 and how it’s shaped me, my relationships with family, friends, colleagues and my work, and what if anything I want to take forward into 2021?

As I sit here looking at time stretching ahead of me and the heightened uncertainty that Covid is generating. Rather than being plunged into a really tempting lethargy and sense of stagnation matching the cold, wet, winter weather outside, I thought I’d put pen to paper (or fingers to keyboard).

So here goes:

1) Slow down to speed up — I struggle with uncertainty. My preference is to make plans, lists, know where, when, what, how and execute swiftly! But I’m learning to take things much more in my stride — adjust my expectations on an almost daily (sometimes even hourly) basis, exercising patience (I’m not a natural — it’s bloody hard and I find myself tested regularly). Gradually though I’m learning to slow-down in order to be able to speed up.

2) Being can be just as valuable as doing — like so many of us, I think I’ve been socialised into keeping busy which has…