Its the weirdest thing - every person I have spoken to this year has felt as if they’re dragging themselves back to work, almost as if the holiday wasn’t long enough for us. The first few days back have felt a bit like walking in a haze of lethargy.  I’ve never seen it quite like this before, or felt it myself so much….weird!

But I have also felt an awakening of the old energies as I start going through the reconnections with my Avo and Footprint teams, and am now just feeling really energised by the opportunities we are being presented with for this year!

Some Avos didn’t even leave Joburg, and have had their heads in our exciting ‘Project Fresh’ game-lifting initiative - we’re currently uplifting, recrafting, refreshing, greening and energising all of our offerings to meet a new world that’s shaking off the dust from last year’s carnage!  I’m really looking forward to seeing the finished product in March this year.

We’ve also done some overdue restructuring of the business, and realigned it to be leaner and more effective than before: Footprint will definitely be pulling its own weight in 2010, and we had to make sure we had the company structure set up to support the increased volume of work.

We had 4 Avo babies last year, and our 5th is imminent: most of the moms are back in the saddle for now - I’m tempted to put a moratorium on procreation for at least one year so we can catch up…… but I suppose we wouldn’t be Avo if we did that, now would we…..?

Avo’s, clients, friends…. there are so many unknowns for us all this year, but I’m confident we’ve got what it takes to make it a successful year where we reap the rewards of the serious graft we put in last year. 

Here’s to the year we deserve!