The new year has started – may it be a good one for you!

This week I have been catching up with all sorts of Christmas messages in amongst my client and other commitments. Amongst them I enjoy an invitation from Sara Milne Rowe to “Link In”. Sara and I met via our professional coach training and we both had the great pleasure before Christmas of joining Roger Schwarz and his colleagues for a week-long training in the Skilled Facilitator Approach. No doubt I’ll be writing more about this programme in the days and weeks ahead.

After accepting Sara’s invitation I check my progress in Linking In. When I set my intention last year to start connecting with people via LinkedIn I was already connected with 49 people. Today the number stands at precisely 100. I haven’t set out to send out invitations “en masse”. Rather, I have gone for the slow drip, drip of checking: “are we connected?” Over time, the numbers are building.

Of course, the question remains, why connect? This is also a question I am enjoying exploring. For the time being, I am appreciating the opportunity to read people’s updates – what are people up to? And of course, it’s also fascinating to discover what a small world we live in as I discover who else knows the people with whom I am connected.