Resolutions for the new year are typically serious and focused on important areas of our lives, such a health, exercise, career development, and being better organized
Although these are all noble initiatives, laughing more often also can improve the start of the new year. As ee cummings said: “ The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.”
- Learn to do more with less (again).
- Memorize the meaning of all privacy law acronyms: GDPR, HIPAA, CCPR, CCPA, FERPA COPPA, and the hundreds of others and concede that more are on the way.
- Realize that your sales team will continue asking for the “most important contract EVER “ to be done yesterday and your phrase “poor planning on your part, does not create an emergency at mine” is useless.
- Do NOT click the link in the email from your “CEO” and send money to a bank account in a remote foreign country (really irks the CFO and the IT Security Team).
- Accept that SPACs will be around for a while and commit to learning what SPAC stands for.
- Seek guidance from a psychic about what “work life balance” really means .
- Continue the debate with the audit department about the “right” reporting structure for the compliance team.
- Allow yourself to use Grammarly without being embarrassed about doing so.
- Stop marking every email you send attorney-client privileged because most aren’t.
- Keep your COVID-19 masks and practice radical acceptance that the “remote work policy” likely will need several more revisions.
Best wishes from all of us at Outside GC for a happy and healthy 2022!