Be kind, always

Published 4 months ago • 1 min read

Hey Reader.

I've been drafting and redrafting this week's email for days; with lots to tell you, but none of it landed quite right.

There is lots going on at Dr Gina HQ: a big house move (we're currently 'camping' in various parts of the new house as we renovate!), decisions about the direction of the business and how I spend my time (ideally not plastering walls: that is fun but not my forte), and some angst over internal politics and colleagues' attitudes recently.

And, whilst I'm great with multiple priorities, sometimes it gets a bit much.

My guess is you have the same feeling at times. Doctorates tend to do that to you. They 'scrape your soul', as I found myself warning a potential student earlier in the week.

So the message that came to me this morning - that a colleague has unexpectedly suffered a close personal loss - took me back to some of my own 'having a tough time' moments.

And it reminded me that - far from taking people's intransigence, or lack of interest, personally - we need to be kind, because we can never know what a person is going through.

Maybe that applies for you, too?

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