The word that sums up this week is: wakeup. I had a session with a potential mentor at work, which was a massive wakeup call for me (cold shower style 🚿) about where I need to step up. After stressing about it for 24 hours or so, I have come to realise that actually, it is the path to freedom for me at work 🌄; or at least a few steps in that direction.
A top moment for me was seeing my eldest daughter head to secondary school ❤️. Something I’m looking forward to next week is implementing some of these leadership tips.
My week headlines
🧠 Understanding: Eye-opening conversation, as mentioned. I am also starting a book called Essentialism. Not really sure about it yet, but my ‘one thing’ below is a notion from the book that struck me today.
🧶 Creating & cultivating: Some new ideas for communications at work. I printed some work by Ivan Aivazovsky to keep in my ‘contemplatio’ pocket notebook 📓. I am loving carrying this around now, together with my normal pocket notebook in a soft cover from Etsy. I have actually started using it as my wallet now too, so I have it all with me wherever I go.
📺 Consuming: More Wheel of Time (book 4!): especially on the train 🚆 this week. The ‘Better Offline’ podcast … we’ll see.
🔆 Connecting: Some friends for brunch 🥓 on Saturday, and visited some friends after Church on Sunday 🍝.
✒️ Pen & ink combo: Pilot Custom 823 with 🟦 Sailor 843. A good combo obviously!
🏹 One thing for future self: My goal is not to “make delivery happen” but to invest in creating a system which removes obstacles and makes delivery as easy as possible.
First published 2025-09-07