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I recently came across a quote attributed to Coco Chanel that I very much liked. She once said, “a woman who cuts her hair is about to change her life.”
It made me smile because I did just that. I cut my hair short (to the style you see today) back in 2018, within a month of getting married. I didn’t know it at the time, but the chop served as a catalyst for an upward gear change in my career.
Chanel’s quote made me think about change in general. There’s been quite a lot of it in my life, mostly instigated by me, and I think it’s been the key player in my evolution as a person.
“She needs to move with the times”
The other day I was heading to a TV studio in a taxi, with a BBC Radio station on in the background. The presenter was inviting listeners to call in and share a topic close to their heart that they believed the BBC should be reporting on.