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On 23rd March this year you became Mr. or Mrs. Fixit.
Everyone at work and at home looked at you and asked "what are we going to do?"
Over the 3 months of lockdown and the 6 months of return to work, the buck has continued to stop at your doorstep for:
Finance
Marketing
The Patient Journey
Operations & Compliance
Leadership
Clinical delivery & mentoring
Family
Friends, Neighbours and Colleagues
and last, but mostly least - yourself.
We are all getting a little blasé about terms like "unprecedented" and "new normal" - but the reality is that you were faced with a set of challenges not seen in our society since the 1940's.
You have made it thus far. Perhaps wounded and wiser but you made it.
Covid-19 isn't over, of course, but do you, like me, have a sense that we are finally past the halfway mark in this marathon?
Here's the challenge as we enter the second half:
There is still a long way to go;
It's going to hurt even more.
The physical challenge of these endless groundhog days will be replaced by a new challenge - your body shouting "stop" and your mind listing the reasons - but your spirit must prevail - you have to keep going now because the end is in sight.
If anybody - paradoxical Chimp, departing team member, Doubting Thomas or otherwise - has the audacity to suggest that you aren't good enough? Please quietly point out that, in 2020/21, you ran a business and life marathon and you finished as a winner.
A marathon is a race
without race
without colour
without religion
without sex
without prejudice
without nationality
without hate
A marathon is a race
where everyone starts as an equal
and everyone finishes as a winner.