Yo, hey everyone, it's Adrienne here. I hope you're all having a great start to the week. So today's

Monday motivation episode is all about gathering. It's about connection. It's about the importance of

meeting with people offline, face to face in real life. Now, if you think back to the pandemic,

during the pandemic, it feels like such a long time ago and gladly, I think we've forgotten so

much about it. But one of the key things, of course, was isolation. Many people reported

feeling lonely. And since the pandemic, there's been numerous articles and statistics that have come out

in the press saying that we are now experiencing an epidemic of loneliness and that more than 10%

of adults in the UK experience loneliness. Now that doesn't necessarily mean that they are

sequestered away from everybody that they they live alone, that they live in

isolation. These people are part of society. They might have jobs. They might go into work.

They might work remotely. But they are feeling loneliness because they don't feel as though

they have connection. They don't feel as though they have deep, meaningful relationships or

that they have the opportunity to create them. So I've talked many times on

this podcast before about, of course, the concept of time well spent and the idea that time is

one of the most valuable things that you can give to another person. So I guess in today's message,

I wanted to get you thinking about would it be possible to give an hour

this week to somebody else? Someone in your life, maybe somebody, a colleague at work,

maybe someone who has reached out in the past, who you've just not been able to connect with

them. And how great do you think it would be for that person to receive a message from you

or an email from you or a

LinkedIn message from you saying, hey, let's connect, let's meet up for a coffee or let's meet up for a run.

One of the questions that I provide in the Power Hour book is, who would love to hear from me today?

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