The year started off quietly, the only hope I had was that I’d be able to get the vaccine shot and I could go somewhere. I was going to go to Paris for my birthday, but the end of January came quickly and no thought of a vaccine for me.
I stayed in the country, after many years when I went out into the world, in my own way to be ‘reborn’ somewhere else, as if a change of place could bring a change of fortune, you know what they say.
But the year came with some fireworks:
From the many, many surprises on my birthday (I remember the courier who brought me a huge bouquet of roses and couldn’t say who the flowers were from), to my collaboration with Forbes Life, for which I’m grateful to the person who recommended me and to those who accepted my writing there, to my collaboration with Spotmedia, Revista Cariere, to those who invited me to podcasts, to radio, to my collaboration with Thrive Global. The red thread has of course been the collaboration with my team at Interact and the other people in the EU project, whom I thank.
2021 was also the year that showed me that again I saw some people as I wanted them to be, not as they were. An error of thinking that I made several times.
I was very nervous when I interviewed Manfred Kets de Vries, my professor at Insead, at the HR Club Annual Conference.
I was in better health than the year before, when I was at the doctor’s every month.
I went to Paris twice, had a few workshops in the classroom, many executive coaching sessions in the office, met with my clients, friends, went out, did a sommelier course, did Shirzad Chamine’s Positive Intelligence program, continued to be involved with AVE, PWN, RGS, went through the virus with hope, caution and confidence in hand, green certificate in my pocket, and it left me alone; so did to those close to me.
It was a year I don’t want to forget. It was a good year for my company, Interact, it brought me a lot of achievements, it probably left some marks on my face, some extra white hairs, but that’s it. Like Robert Frost, I can say that no matter what, life goes on.