To say 2018 was a big year would be understating it spectacularly. It was a personal and professional watershed that was dominated by new jobs, new roles and new responsibilities.

They say a river is never the same from one day to the next. I like this metaphor. What looks familiar and predictable and unchanging is, in fact, chaotically transformative. Another one of my favourite sayings (and actually its one that got me through many tough moments in 2018) is Yiddish and goes; ‘Man makes plans…and God laughs’.

So, with these wisened pearls in mind, I’m intending the coming 12 months to be about consolidating what we, both myself and the Sterling clan at large, have learned – which is pretty much the reason I started this project years ago…

Happy New Year everyone. Let’s go.