Easing the Sunday Scaries - 4/2/24


Easing the Sunday Scaries

Sunday 4th February 2024

Unbelievable! There goes January. Don't let the door hit you on the way out!

That means we are now on the "next month" that I referred to in all my previous emails. Eeek. Guess I better start talking about the group coaching I've got planned for the end of the month.

Why group coaching? Because coaching is wonderful and powerful and transformative. But working with a group adds that extra layer of being in community. Of meeting people who are all amazing and who are able to reflect your own amazingness back to you. The wisdom of a group really does combine to become more than the sum of its parts.

Being in a group helps get different viewpoints on the same topic. Being somewhat more forward than I am usually, I've set up a reading group at work to share learning from reading Design Justice (open access link). I'm excited to hear about the book from others

Recent articles

What I'm reading

I've been reading a lot of business books this week, thinking about how 2024 should be the year I start working for myself (again). I've also been trying to listen to the audiobook of Prophet Song but you can't listen to fiction at double speed so that's not going great.....

What I'm listening to

Hard to believe that Jonny Marr wrote all the songs by himself, sang and played guitar in The Smiths.... What a legend

What I'm thinking

How being celebrated is still gate kept and maybe it's time we stopped aiming for Black excellence and instead gun for the same level of mediocre that would be celebrated on a white man (yes Elmo Mush and all of GB news, I do mean you)

I'm going to get better at sending these newsletters out every week and since my list is so small, if you want to hit reply, we can have a conversation about any of the things I share. I'll also use this weekly sharing to mention my coaching offerings. I'm hosting a group coaching call starting 27th Feb. Five weeks where we can dive into how to survive the workplace in 2024. The link to sign up is here. Any questions, just hit reply to this message

Have a lovely week and let's catch up soon x

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Bringing a bit more human-ness to work Work is done through relationships, change can only happen through dialogue.

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