It is Saturday. I am once again getting ready to leave for Holland. The taxi will pick me up as always tomorrow morning at 5.30am. It will probably be a strange week. My successor on the job starts on Monday. I have never met her and I hope that she is the right one to take over. Take over the team, take over the projects. I guess that our board and management team know what is needed and that they made the right choice, hired the right person. So during the month of February I will work with her, helping her through all the projects. But I should not think of work today. I have tried not to. My day started with reading the Oprah Magazine. I bought it on my way to Tel Aviv and did not really get the chance to read it yet. I admire Oprah. It seems that her goal in life is to make people and especially women feel good and look good... hmmm this is Hunkemoller's mission as well... Stop. Do not think of work... Dr. Phil has an interesting article in this issue about commitment to real change implying change that will make you happy. He has listed 10 questions we must ask ourselves the last one being "Are you low on your priority list?" To illustrate he writes.. "we need mothers, not martyrs. We need women, not sacrificial lambs". I so totally agree with him and I believe that in the past 5-6 years I have learned to put myself higher on my priority list. As Dr. Phil advises: I put my feet up with a cup of coffee, curl up with a good book, listen to my favorite music, and take some time away from the house with absolutely nothing to do except be with myself. This morning for example. Beautiful sun although too windy to sit on the beach I went to a nice neighboorhood coffeeshop and had an espresso, with a croissant. Later, I went with my Parisian friend Michele, this time on transit to Paris from Eilat, and her cousin Arele to have lunch in Basel street. We sat outside until the sun decided to disappear behind clouds. It was anyway time for her to go to the airport. It was a wonderful day. So yes, I must try and remember to put myself more often higher on the priority list.
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