Reason, Tension and Urgency...

If I were to pick my three words of this year, they would be reason, tension and urgency.

I have come to realise that every change we seek to make needs a deep, compelling reason, and that change brings a tension between where we are and where we want to be, like a great big elastic band.

But it is urgency that is having the greatest effect on me this year - the underlying feeling that there is no time to waste, and that I need to be accelerating rather than ambling towards my goals.

Sometimes it is difficult to put our feelings and emotions into words, but when we do, those words have real power to drive us forward…