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Welcome to this month’s edition.

Happy New Year and I hope you had a good Christmas.  Everything about this edition is aimed at supporting you to have the best year ever. 

Damian Piper CBE our Resilience Coach starts this month edition with: “In the pursuit of success, patience often takes a back seat to the allure of quick wins, especially prevalent in the New Year resolution hype. Success, a relative term, can be tainted when driven by an unhelpful desire for rapid progress. This article delves into the misconception that patience contradicts the need for speed and execution, proposing a winning formula that combines big-picture objectivity with daily micro-execution…….”

From me (with contributions from Farren Drury MBE, Rebecca Alexander & Joyce Raw): ‘Slow down to hurry up’.  ….  “I had set myself 30 minutes to collate and share some important papers ahead of my Board Meeting.  I had just pressed the send button and included an email group address I had not intended.  ‘Slowing down to hurry up’ is a lesson I occasionally must re-learn……”   

From USA’s Success Magazine: ‘44 Ways to Kick-Start Your New Year’  

And the last article in this month’s edition.  Something I put together for my colleagues this week:  ‘My 20 Top Cold Weather Tips from the Arctic Circle’: ‘The winters of 1985 and 1986 involved me leaving my family for three-month deployment with ‘3 Commando Brigade’ in North Norway.  During the deployments we were required to complete:  a ‘Arctic Survival Course’ and ‘Arctic Warfare Training’ (AWT) qualification.  I picked up some tips along the (hard) way….’

There is lots more in this month’s edition so let’s dive in together……


Steve Raw FinstLM, FCMI, GCGI 

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