With most of 2020 and our festive season put on hold by the global pandemic; I was optimistic about what 2021 would bring. I had made a commitment to refrain from using ‘unprecedented’, ‘now, more than ever’ and ‘unexpected’ as staple vocabulary when the January inboxes opened up again. And a return to frothy coffees and meeting face-to-face was top of my list of new year resolutions.
This positivity, is, of course helped by the days already getting longer and two vaccines making their way to the most vulnerable in our communities.
Reflections on the Christmas that many of us didn’t expect, remind me of my favourite Dickens’ novel, Great Expectations, and how the chance encounter between Pip and Magwitch is the pivotal moment for both of their lives to change. Not as they expected.
Master storyteller, Dickens, weaves an intricate web of connectivity across his characters, each of them unknowing to how closely they are related and what they mean to one another.
In some ways the impact of the virus made our world feel smaller. Yet, in other ways I am more connected to my friends, family and colleagues than I have ever been, and for that I am grateful.
This month I launch my new venture, avyze. I’ve been inspired by many who have been working successfully in this way in one of the hardest years possible to start my own business to continue to connect to and help others in ways I never expected.
Avyze 