Small Steps and Broken Stones

This article by Russell M. Davies in Wired UK gave me the idea of writing quick weeknotes - short reflections on the week gone by and what went well, what needs more thought/action and what’s coming up next.

I enjoyed seeing the new Connect newsletter come out, my first as Editor. We’ve had some good feedback already and I’m looking forward to getting on with the next one.

Today has been very rewarding and stimulating, two coaching sessions - two very different organisations and a different focus required for each. More of this please!

A supplement in today’s paper on great places to work has got me thinking once again on workplace volunteering and closing the gap between the private and third sectors. Wrapped up in this are some ideas around leadership skills and reaching out to Generation Y.

I’m getting increasingly busy and this means my time management and prioritisation skills are going to need to slip up a notch. Some work to be done here.

From ‘Bodyline Autopsy’ by David Frith….

A Winchester variation on rugby football involved players standing still while an opponent booted the ball at them from point blank range. To flinch was to bear the shame of it for life.

Lovely. Who said sport should be fun?

He’s just had another shocker, the latest in a series for (sometimes) Sale and (more usually) England, but I have the utmost respect for him.  He is a very talented individual and he is a natural risk-taker, who has kept faith in his own style of playing, through a number of setbacks. 

That kind of steadfastness takes a lot of courage, right?