Happy Holidays 2023: Best Wishes from all of us at SKMurphy for a Joyous Holiday Season and a Successful New Year!
Happy Holidays 2023
Best Wishes for a Joyous Holiday Season and a Successful New Year
What went well this year:
- On May-5-2023, more than three years since COVID-19 was designated as a pandemic, the World Health Organization declared an end to the global Public Health Emergency for COVID-19.Following an initial announcement earlier this year, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) declared the same for the United States, effective on May 11.
- In September we completed our first year of podcasts on “Time to Market” in collaboration with Etienne Garbugli. See “Time to Market Season Recap and Lessons Learned” for details on what we covered.
- At Thanksgiving I was grateful for “absent friends.” I shared a list those I had thought about and missed in November. I concluded:
- One thing I valued about all of these friends was their willingness to confront me honestly. It’s not easy to disagree with someone who loves a good argument–and being right–as much as I do. But each of them was willing on more than one occasion to suggest why my current course of action might be a mistake–and likely consequences I had overlooked or discounted. Because it’s so hard to make old friends, I will cherish those I have and content myself with making new friends.
- At a certain point–a point I have reached–you look into your family history to see what has killed your relatives. In my case, it’s almost all heart attack, aneurysm, or stroke. You can look at that in different ways. It led me to a realization: I will probably have little time to say final goodbyes, so I should make what amends I can now and minimize my future need to reconcile, apologize, or reconnect.
- Robert Brault “What we see in an old family photo is not just a still moment in time but a moment when there was still time.” You are in that picture now–perhaps they are taking another one today. Don’t wait to reconnect with folks who have made a difference in your life.
You still have a week left after celebrating Christmas to work on your plans for 2024. Here is our “End of 2023 Planning Checklist To Prepare For 2024.” Here is the short version:
- What has worked well? What can I build on?
- What has not worked and needs improvement? What needs to change or be discontinued?
- What experiments do I want to try next year?