We often talk about introverts as people who have a challenge with having conversation with people, too shy, too soft spoken, too, hmmm, afraid? And more over, do you know how energy draining group conversations, well, conversations, more like group individual talks are? How amazing is then when you put the said introvert into a smaller group of people who shares the same interest and ideally know each other for some time and, voilà, you get an energetic person, charged by the conversation and very lively indeed.

Aaaaand here we are. What? Where? When? When, that we know, end of the year is coming and with it the time for a reflection and course correction. It is the time, we need to slow down our lives, which is kinda funny as most of us speed up to buy gifts, finish all the work, do this, do that and then, exhausted, try to bring our best to the family table during Christmas.

Sometimes, you just have to write. You have to, you feel compelled to, compelled by the overpowering sensations flowing through your mind like a massive waves of water on a vast sea. While writing this, I can’t stop crying, my heart feels, feels and feels full of emotion, full of sadness, full of sorrows, full of love. In the background, music plays. Calm, soothing, relaxing simple piano melody brings me even deeper inside me, inside my soul

I can see myself in them, the very same struggles I’ve been through and, well, I am still wrangling with. The struggles of the quote unquote modern life, so modern in-fact that we loose ourselves in it. So modern that we are asked to perform on 100% every day and deliver results quickly, efficiently and most importantly, just be productive. The belief of companies in financial results being the motivator for our growth and in the center of their culture is breathtaking to me.

Need for Speed Sleep: I know, I know, a little silly of me to call a post like this. But I’ve did it on purpose as I wonder what kind of thoughts and images would your mind produce when reading the title. Might it be a speed in terms of productivity and a suggestion of sleep as the more important out of those two? Or, for some of us, a trip down the memory lane to times when we played the game called Need for Speed, but then, why the connection to sleep :)

I’d like to take you on a journey I feel isn’t well-trodden. I believe it is fair to say that already for a couple of decades we were, and still are, fascinated by the productivity, making sure we produce more in less time and for less money while keeping the elusive work-life balance.

Year of 2024, January the 2nd, the day that started a number of significant changes in my life, the day I have taken on a new role as a technical leader for an IT company. Month later, still there, it is a time to reflect I believe