Hi everyone and welcome to the squiggly careers podcast. I'm Sarah, the host of the podcast and I'm joined by my fellow host, Helen.

Hello everybody. And if this is your first time listening, the focus of this podcast is all about helping you to develop the skills you need to succeed in our ever more squiggly, more complex, more interesting, more creative careers.

And thank you to everybody who has been sending us in feedback and suggestions for different

podcast topics.

If you are listening and you thought, oh, there's still something they've not covered in the last

65 episodes that's nagging away on your mind, please do let us know because the business that

we run together is called Amazing If and our mission is really to make work better for everyone

and whether that is a small thing that you think we could talk about that will make your work

better, whether that's a really big thing like culture or organizational design.

There's no topic off limits.

And actually we'll talk at the end of today's podcast about a kind of extra special one that we've got coming up next week.

Yeah, a bit of a teaser.

I won't talk about it now, but we'll talk about it at the end.

And today we're focusing on motivation.

And I think probably not a bad time of year to focus on work and motivation given January, I think, can go one or two ways.

There's probably half people at work at the moment going, right, January, I'm full of motivation.

So new year, New Me sort of vibes

and everybody's kind of lapping up all of the news resolutions

and determined to either make change or do something different.

And then I do think you kind of have the converse to that

of January is quite a long month, it's quite a dark month,

people are a bit broke.

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