Brienne writes

I went for a jog this morning even though I only had 6 hours of sleep because self care is important. I came home and had breakfast with my husband. Our usual- 2 soft boiled eggs.  Prepped lunch, cooked, ate, cleaned up, marinated my chicken for dinner. Showered and took a half hour nap.  Woke up, listened to a podcast before I cooked dinner.  Ate, washed up, cleaned up, husband helped too.  Doom scrolled after because I am tired.  8.56pm. A thought. Should I join Calligraphy Growth Circles Zoom tonight or just watch the replay? Let's show up. It's all about showing up for Bree. Had so much fun during the live learning about how to draw the florals on the capitals.  Smiled, learnt, laughed, tried again.  Learning is so much fun.  This couple of days left in the year, I hope you find the joy of learning, of failing, of trying again even if it's frustrating. Yes, definitely frustrating to not get it.  But keep going. How about learning somethin...

In another episode of the Diary of a CEO, Steven Bartlett talks to Jaspreet Singh about hiring exceptional people.  Jaspreet shared about hiring a cheap accountant and it ended up costing him a lot of money. When he hired an expensive one, he helped him save money instead. When Steven asked his brother what his net worth is, he shared something similar to what Steve Jobs mentioned in an interview before. Hire a few exceptional players (which will not be cheap). A-players enjoy working together so they'll end up hiring A-players and that will propagate and it becomes self-cohesive. 

I'm part of a group where we meet every Monday evening at 9pm. I haven't joined them for a long time because I always found something else to do at that time.  Then I joined them again 3 weeks ago because they were discussing a new book. It looked interesting and I needed accountability partners. Over the next two weeks, I had family over, my husband fell ill and I didn't achieve my goals.  I didn't want to join the group again for fear of judgement and feeling like a failure for not achieving my goals. But I did today. Because of something Karen sent a few weeks ago.  Thank you Karen. I showed up. no judgement. Just highlights, discussing positives and new goals for the week. I'm more motivated to achieve my goals this week. Find yourself a community like this. It's lovely. Have a beautiful week you.