It is the silly season … but is it really the time to be jolly. The term ‘silly season’ came about to describe a time of the year in which parliaments were closed and there was traditionally very little to report in the newspapers. Despite the lack of news the papers still went to print and therefore the headlines were often ‘silly’ or frivolous. These days it feels like the silly season for a bunch of different reasons. In my work and personal life I have noticed that we seemed to be moving at an increasingly accelerated pace which grows into a ‘silly’ like momentum at this time of the year. It’s as if everything we have managed to push back, roll over, or delay earlier in the year starts to scream loudly at us and needs finishing before we go on Christmas break. And the result, late nights at … Continue reading Overwhelmed by ‘Silly Season’?