There are quite a few thousand things I don’t identify with in the world. For example, I do not identify as male. I don’t identify as black, or LGBTQ.

There is plenty of negativity in the world that it’s getting harder these days to find good news, but there is still some, as we discovered with Comic Relief’s announcement this week.

Those three words struck a chord with women around the world - women who are looked down on in the boardroom, overlooked for promotion, ogled at by seniors, peers, subordinates alike even in the most professional and corporate settings.

With the new coronavirus cases on the rise and the much-dreaded second wave of the pandemic now more of a reality than we thought it would ever be, around the world, there is trepidation that a second lockdown might be looming.

Hard to believe, but by next week, we will have just four months of 2020 left. Between the pandemic, the lockdown, and the subsequent economic downturn, 2020 is the year that happened while we were busy making other plans

With the global work from home experience still going on in most parts of the world five months and counting, there have been quite a few discussions in business publications such as Forbes or Harvard Business Review around management styles and what makes a good manager.

Amidst the ongoing pandemic, the fears of a second wave, devastating loss of lives and livelihoods globally, and the worst economic fallout in history looming large, it may be difficult to find much to smile about these days.

In a country where American footballer Colin Kaepernick faces abuse for taking a knee at the national anthem, police officers have no scruples taking a knee to an innocent man’s neck, even as he lies apparently unresponsive.

More recently, in a 2018 interview, Katherine Schwarzenegger was asked to choose between Chris Pratt, Chris Evans, or Chris Hemsworth. While she first said Chris Evans she quickly changed her answer to:

But it’s just 48 hours,” I hear you say. The weekend. Indeed, between the time we skip and hop out of work screaming “TGIF!” inside and the time we shuffle into the office, double espresso in a take-away cup, eyes glazed with sleep, there are only 48 precious hours.

Really in the grand scheme of things just how important is your job title? Or the size of your corner suite? That is if, in our age of open plan offices, if you even have. I had the pleasure of attending a few networking events recently.

You know that cliché analogy for the first day of the new year: “Today is the first blank page of a 365-page book. Write a good one.”I’m not really a fan of putting so much expectation on just one day just because it happens to have a change of digit at the year-end.