Opening

Some people are good at self-promotion. Some just like to “do the work”. I guess some balance is needed. In the line of “don’t hide your light under a bushel” I’ll share, informally, some ways I am adding value to founders, friends and communities.

UNSTUCK

A friend of mine was visiting Georgia recently and I could sense that he was in some distress. He’d relocated from his home country to somewhere he did not find as hospitable and he was both struggling for acceptance and how to reset his professional career which had been uprooted.

We spent a nice few hours discussing what was up with him, the dynamics of where he was (and the limitations not allowing him to do what he’d done before in his professional life).

Coming out of that conversation I had the sense that he had some new perspective about not being attached to how things had been in the past, and starting anew by looking for smaller ways to demonstrate his capabilities, connect with interesting people who feed his soul, and to build step-by-step his stature in the country. But mostly it was a clarity that he was “stuck”.

I had recommended a resource for personal development/planning that I felt would be very good. A kind of simple framework to clarify what’s important to you and to develop habits of reflection and small steps to progress.