So it's September.

Obviously I was using AI to see what was on people's minds.

Restart, reset, refocus.

I guess it's just a memorable time, isn't it?

That September time when it feels like I can do something different now than I was doing before.

And things that you think, now is the time to stop that thing because it's getting in my way.

So we thought we would share our starts and stops and hopefully inspire you to think about it too.

We're not very good at protecting our future self.

We have to like think about the being kind to the future version of us

and what we want that person's Monday to look like.

Is it because that start and stop was too ambitious?

Is it because you need more help from someone? This conversation is useful, hopefully, for two things. One, for your own reflection, but also for your awareness of what other people want to start and stop and how you can support each other. So we would highly recommend that you do this as a team activity. Hi, I'm Sarah. And I'm Helen. And this is the Squiggly Careers podcast. Every week we talk about a different topic to do with work and share some ideas and actions so we can all navigate these squiggly careers without a bit more confidence and control. And it is now only two weeks until the start of our Squiggly Careers Skill Sprint. This is the third sprint that we are running, but we've changed things up a bit this time. So this sprint starts on the 15th September. It is only for one week,

so kind of easy to start and stick to. The past ones we've done on 20 days. This hopefully

feels a bit more accessible. And our focus is on squiggly skills times AI. So we've taken the five

squiggly skills, strengths,, Confidence Network and Future.

We've got some AI prompt and some new tools for you to try out. So if you fancy a bit of a

accelerated start for your development in September, sign up for the Sprint. All you need to do is go

to squigglysprint.com. Sign up is completely free and we will then send you everything else that

you need to know. So it's September and obviously I was using AI to see what was on people's

minds and also I asked our team. I feel like they're my two default sources of like our team.

Reality and then they're an AI and everybody pretty much said they do see September as a bit of a restart, reset, refocus.

And we've talked about it before and I talked about it with Katie Milkman in our interview,

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