Positivity is a good thing. It’s a beautiful thing, and it’s something I seek to live out. It’s even one of the six internal values of my company. In the midst of a really difficult time, staying positive can be even harder…not simply because of the tough things in life. (It requires discipline, even in
Author Archives: Karen Reyburn
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Mar
Mar
I was trying to think of what to share with my Karen’s Notes list today. And the truth is, i don’t know. I’ve never pretended to have all the answers – these notes simply share what I’m thinking and how I’m feeling and I hope they help encourage a few. But after considering this topic
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Mar
Mar
There’s a lot out there about how to “use” your coronavirus time. Or your quarantine time. To rise to the challenge, be strong and valiant, own this and crush this and win win win. Last week I was feeling that a bit. I thought “My business is already remote, so this is business as usual”.
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Mar
Mar
Okay so, the world has gone a bit mad. I had some fears too, and they’ve gone up and down a bit as shown by this handy graph. Here’s the things I’ve been telling myself, my team, and pretty much anyone I ended up talking to this week about the coronavirus (so, everyone). On levels
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Mar
Mar
This week (as you’ll know unless you were living under a rock or not using the internet), QBC London was cancelled out of “an over abundance of caution” with the current #coronavirus situation. Protecting people, just in case. Making that kind of decision in the first place has to be really hard. I’m sure they were discussing
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Feb
Feb
Last year I was asked to sketchnote the five values for a company called Diagnostax. I got to know them through one of the owners, Gwil, who I met at an accounting conference. I was walking through the hordes of people and Gwil literally stopped me and said “You’re Karen Reyburn, right? The one who
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Feb
Feb
On Friday, my nephew went into emergency brain surgery for fluid on the brain. It’s been an exhausting, difficult, confusing, emotional time so far (for the family there by his side and for me being far away). There’s tons we don’t know yet and very likely a long road ahead: but here’s the point. In
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Dec
Dec
Recently in an Insta story I mentioned I was reading the book “Dare to Lead” by Brene Brown, and said it was “hard but good”. I had several messages almost instantly from a variety of people asking, Why is it hard? Whenever that happens it’s an indicator to me that I’ve hit on something that
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Nov
Nov
It’s winter, and that means darkness. I live in Scotland, and in the summer it’s almost never dark at all. The sun comes up so early (and so calmly) that you hardly even notice – even if you stay up or get up to watch it, there’s just sort of a general lightening of the
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Nov
Nov
It’s coming on towards Christmas, and one of the traditions I’ve always loved is listening to Handel’s Messiah. Beautiful music. Meaningful music, drawn from the oldest Book of them all. And a feeling of being swept into glory. My family would often go together to listen to it sometime before Christmas. My parents found this
