Love this Emily. You put into words the many things I've been mulling over - about the inevitable cycles of burnout I see in the design world each year. A friend of mine once talked about planning an exhale period for each inhale - which I love as a metaphor. And it made me realise how we/I never seem to plan for exhales as a culture. Is it any wonder that we are always out of breath :)
As to the February start - I love that. I've been considering going back to the traditional lunar calendars I grew up with - the tamil new year according to that, is in mid-April. That always seemed pretty wild as an idea but hey - maybe it makes sense to start the year with spring.
Also LOVE that you're sharing what you are cooking. Cant wait to try some of those.
Thank you for putting out that article about long covid along with all the other bits. A really useful approach for spreading awareness to people who aren't primarily interested in chronic illness. I didn't know there were many more people with long covid than ME/CFS but it doesn't surprise me. I think I heard it was 10% of that which could become long term but don't quote me on that... If it is 10% then that would be a significant jump in the amount of people who have ME/CFS - globally. Really upsetting.
Anyway, I love the food section. That's original. Lovely newsletter. xx
loved the Martin Eriksson piece in particular - thanks Emily. Found myself nodding all the way through his slide pack - so was probably no surprise that 2 of his 5 suggested strategy books are two of my go to books!
Today, 1st Feb, I went back to the yoga studio for the first time since March (very lucky to be able to do that in covid-normal Melbourne) and felt great about a new year starting today! What a delight to read this over my morning coffee afterwards. I was thinking how the summer rhythms influence my end/start of year, I find there's exhausted reflection end of November, reset and rest between 21stDec-5th Jan, then a sun-fuelled-wild-abandon of testing out what the year will be in Jan, then Feb = start to ease into the things that stick. Thanks for the newsletter, it is a great read :)
Boy do I relate with seeing other people’s resolutions and adopting them as my own, without even reflecting on if that’s even something I want to focus on 🙃 really love the idea of starting the year in February and looking at energy levels to work with them!
Love this Emily. You put into words the many things I've been mulling over - about the inevitable cycles of burnout I see in the design world each year. A friend of mine once talked about planning an exhale period for each inhale - which I love as a metaphor. And it made me realise how we/I never seem to plan for exhales as a culture. Is it any wonder that we are always out of breath :)
As to the February start - I love that. I've been considering going back to the traditional lunar calendars I grew up with - the tamil new year according to that, is in mid-April. That always seemed pretty wild as an idea but hey - maybe it makes sense to start the year with spring.
Also LOVE that you're sharing what you are cooking. Cant wait to try some of those.
Congrats on the newsletter debut! On social networks: I'm a convenor of brokers with expansionist tendencies :-)
Thanks too for the role piece; resonates, and requires more thought.
Thank you for putting out that article about long covid along with all the other bits. A really useful approach for spreading awareness to people who aren't primarily interested in chronic illness. I didn't know there were many more people with long covid than ME/CFS but it doesn't surprise me. I think I heard it was 10% of that which could become long term but don't quote me on that... If it is 10% then that would be a significant jump in the amount of people who have ME/CFS - globally. Really upsetting.
Anyway, I love the food section. That's original. Lovely newsletter. xx
loved the Martin Eriksson piece in particular - thanks Emily. Found myself nodding all the way through his slide pack - so was probably no surprise that 2 of his 5 suggested strategy books are two of my go to books!
Today, 1st Feb, I went back to the yoga studio for the first time since March (very lucky to be able to do that in covid-normal Melbourne) and felt great about a new year starting today! What a delight to read this over my morning coffee afterwards. I was thinking how the summer rhythms influence my end/start of year, I find there's exhausted reflection end of November, reset and rest between 21stDec-5th Jan, then a sun-fuelled-wild-abandon of testing out what the year will be in Jan, then Feb = start to ease into the things that stick. Thanks for the newsletter, it is a great read :)
Boy do I relate with seeing other people’s resolutions and adopting them as my own, without even reflecting on if that’s even something I want to focus on 🙃 really love the idea of starting the year in February and looking at energy levels to work with them!