15 January 2024
The last day of my annual leave. I spent my 3 weeks with family, smoking cigars and sipping Speyside’s best 750ml offerings. The time before returning to work is normally the same, a sudden urge towards self-improvement, personally and professionally, and the usual attempts at planning the year ahead.
I took a sneak peek at my mails, 18000 unread (a mixture of work, automated mailers, but mostly system-generated notifications of on-premises and cloud systems). I immediately closed it. I’ll deal with this tomorrow, 16 January. I’ll probably have to book a few hours just to go through the December and January mails and then officially kick-off this year. I dislike this activity upon returning to work. We’ll experience a tough one in 2024; digitalization, cloud, and important projects that need to close out. So, it’ll be a busy year and value will need to shine though.
I also want to close out a few personal professional goals in 2024, these include:
I kind of look forward to my return. All my colleagues and team members are back at work. Here’s to a successful professional 2024…