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Starting again…again

On the wall of the practice up above the door entry into The Academy, we have our values listed that we built as a team back in 2020.

We were pretty clear that one of those values was resilience, although that's become a word that seems overused and underrepresented.

I believe in the concept of resilience and that success happens and good things happen when people turn up on a day-by-day basis.

I think that's what resilience means.

I think the ability to drag yourself in and to smile and to care when everything about you wants to crawl back into bed is what resilience and stamina are.

There are various parts of the year where resilience is needed more than others, and one of those parts is the start of September.

Certainly, in the United Kingdom, but also other cultures around the world, the end of August marks the end of downtime, either mid-winter or midsummer.

For us, it's the end of the school holidays in England, and for any of us who have Children or at least Children of school age, there has been a different dynamic from about the middle of July until the end of August.

Things seem to be better all through June when the nights are the longest, and we have the best of the weather, and then when the Children are off school, it's just a slightly different pace of life because fewer people are at you because they also have their Children off school.

Everything changes in the first week of September when most schools go back, and people are back into the routine of their working lives.

And so, we start again for the 100th time (the same thing happens in January).

This is where resilience comes in.

This is where we need the ability to think and to plan and to see the things that we would like to do and want to make work before the next break comes in in December.