Wrapping up the year: Falling down, Joy in Work and More Experiments.

22 Dec

Back at the end of 2018, I sent a survey out asking for comments on what worked well with this email along with a voting option for topics to guide what I write about each week. The top 5 topics were:

Joy in Work
Wellbeing
Resilience
Culture
Leadership

I've taken a bit of time to look back over the year of Jedi musings, all 46 of them [I know] and while not every email hit one of these topics specifically, there was a fair spread across them all.

This was a year that included the shooting at Christchurch which stumped me for words of meaning to say. There was my personal space of having a fall and learning what a big deal concussion is and yes, using this email as a way to process not only these events but as a way to respond to what I saw those around me dealing with. Not many of these more personal emails made it to the website which has only seen 14 of what I share made public. This was one of the most popular emails.

I completed the Joy in Work course from IHI and shared the steps I went through with you. Several books were discussed and shared and while not listed as a key topic emotional intelligence, along with a selection of the range of emotions we can experience, seemed to be a recurrent theme.

It was the year that had me paying forward my book collection with my first [and pretty successful] book giveaway. I'll certainly do another one of those.

As we get to that point in the year, a time of reflecting and looking back. Maybe with wonder or disappointment. Amazement or regret. Either way, this is a moment in time. While it's not everyone's cup of tea, I enjoy the act of reflecting, considering the lessons, the moments to celebrate, what I'll do differently, what I'll stop, and what I'll do more of. This time last year, I considered 2018 as my year of experiments, I'm not quite sure how I'll title 2019 just yet.