This is just a quickie, because I’m about to hop in our big old (with the emphasis on old!) Landcruiser with Andy and head off up the East Coast of South Africa to Zithulele Hospital, for our building project. We’ll take 2 days to drive up there, picking up our good friends, Anth and Karen (flying in from Singapore) and spending Christmas day with them at Addo elephant Park, on the way up. And over the next few days, the rest of our team will assemble: Jamie and Teak flying in from London UK, and Jan and Karlien and their two children (6 and 8 years old), who are also coming up from Cape Town. We’re all incredibly excited now (the smack talk started two weeks ago!) and looking forward to two weeks of hard work, sweat, reflection, and bonding.

I’ll have an internet connection while I’m away and I’ll have a few posts on the blog over this time. I’m hoping I can even make a plan to post regular video updates of our project on the blog, but we’ll have to see whether the connection is strong enough to handle uploading videos – I might have to save those posts until I’m back home, and I might be a little slower than usual on answering emails and responding to comments on the blog because our days will be so full. As my current coaching clients already know, we’ll be taking a break on the coaching front, and I’ll be available to take up new coaching clients again from 20 Jan 2010. Of course the Bottom-line Bookclub will continue as usual, with the next Bottom-line being released on 1 Jan 2010 – The Bottom-line on Daniel Pink’s latest book, Drive.”

The details are still to be finalized, but it looks like Andy and I will be heading to Calgary, Canada in the last week of January, so hopefully I’ll get to meet some of my Canadian readers and friends soon!

So here’s wishing you a wonderful Christmas and holiday season and a 2010 that’s full of all the people and experiences you treasure most. Be safe if you’re partying and traveling, and enjoy the time to reflect and reboot.

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