Dear ,

How is your New Year going so far? If I had to sum it up in a word, my word would be hopeful. It feels like a strange time in history, with so much chaos everywhere we look, that just saying "Happy New Year" feels a bit disingenuous.

So I'm saying hopeful for 2024.

I do love this time of year. A time for us to throw out the old and re-imagine how we want to show up in this world. A time to dream big and make big plans (before reality kicks in 🤪) because you do have to imagine the possibilities before you can hope to make them a reality!

Shoot for the moon and even if you miss you still land up amongst the stars 💫

Sorry for the cheesy quote - I just can't help myself!

I wanted to take a quick moment to tell you about a talk I listened to recently because it will set the scene for 2024. The speaker drew a graph (I've added my version below) where he illustrated how right now, we are at a time in human history where the rate at which the world is changing has probably surpassed our ability as human beings to adapt to change.

Which is pretty scary and sums up how I feel. However this is an email about hope and he did offer an antidote. He suggested that the best way to stay above the curve was to make sure we tap into a group where we can take advantage of the collective wisdom.

Which, as you can imaging I was pretty excited about - because we are not only ahead of the curve - we are ahead of the game here in The Wired COLLECTIVE where we get to tap into collective wisdom on a weekly basis 😃

And so my big hairy audacious goal for 2024 is going to be to prioritize, nurture, celebrate and optimize OUR collective wisdom. And I know I'll have been successful when we get to the end of 2024 and everyone of our Wired Collective members can name at least 3 other members in this collective that have helped them either think through a messy problem, figure out a clinical approach that was a game changer or have an aha moment that made something they were wanting to do easier, more fun or more effective.

Man it feels inspiring to have clarity!

So what's your Big Hairy Audacious Goal for your therapy life for 2024?

And how will you know when you've been successful?

We had such a cool goal planning workshop at the end of last year and I wanted to make sure it was something that you carried through into 2024. Not just something you did that gets lost in the busy. So we will be reviewing it asynchronously over January and consolidating with a meet up at the end of the month to make sure you've dialed in your tasks, habits and strategies that will make your Big Hairy Audacious professional goals for 2024 a walk in the park.

You'll get an email in the next day or two with all the details, but I just wanted to give you a heads up! (I would have put a smiley face here by I've already used up my quota of 3/email)

For today I just wanted to say - Here's to 2024 - I'm thrilled you're here - it's going to be a FÜN year filled with collective wisdom!

With so much enthusiasm for what's possible,

Mindy

PS - have you locked in our upcoming Big Meetups for Jan and Feb?