Slow down to speed up later

Soon I will be travelling for ten days to Cayman and the USA, blending seeing clients, family, friends.

Whilst most of my active clients are on retainers, over the years I’ve built deep relationships with a number of clients who call me in periodically to support them as needed.

One such client overseas has asked me to spend a day with their team on this trip. When I asked them what they would like me to support them with, the client principal, with lots of experience of the work, sent a list of three specific tools and frameworks they’d like me to cover with the team.

Simple enough, at one level, but today let me use this example, as well as a story around the photo above, to explain what I mean by:

Slow down to speed up later

First, to the photo above. A stunning fen in Cambridgeshire. If you look up the word fen, you may read it means: “the flat low-lying areas of eastern England, mainly in Lincolnshire, Cambridgeshire, and Norfolk, formerly marshland but largely drained for agriculture since the 17th century.”

These gorgeous fens, part of a massive expanse of farmland in the area, do indeed have the feel of being very much unchanged since the 17th century. Quite beautiful, and this particular October day the temperature rose from a chill start to over 20c by late…