FOCAL going forwards
Posted: Sun Oct 01, 2017 10:02 am
Hi everyone.
Apologies in advance if this looks a little self-important – the intention isn’t to be so, but I felt that it was necessary to state the following, publicly.
After the Birmingham finals this year, I will be relinquishing my role as the chair of FOCAL.
There are two primary reasons for this. One, as several of you will be aware, I have some health issues at present. These issues could be sorted quickly, or they could go on for a while, but either way, these could impact on my ability to be as present at events as I have been. Indeed, in its current venue, I wouldn’t even be able to run MK next year if nothing were to change. They’re also impacting on my enthusiasm (through no fault of the community), and my ability to concentrate and focus, with the medication I’m taking at present. Whilst I need to give myself things to focus on, I think it’s unfair to all of you to make one of those things something that is of relevance to so many of you, when I can’t be sure how good a job I’ll be able to do.
Secondly, I worry that whilst much of it is my own doing, I have positioned myself as being too much of a centrepoint for FOCAL. Now it’s fully established as part of the community, I want to make sure that it can carry on going with another person/people at the steering wheel. Even without health issues, I couldn’t commit to just doing this forever (Countdown is a hobby is something that can peak and trough, as many of us know) – whilst I still have a love for the game and the community seems a good time to see whether something else I have a great love for can flourish without the need for me to be a control freak
I don’t post this publicly to receive any kind of “Oh no, feel better soon!” or any kind of reassurance of the job I’ve been doing – but instead because this might be a good time to get some fresh faces interested. People who perhaps don’t want to run an event of which they are the face, but might like to get involved in the bigger picture. If this is the case, please say so – let’s put some stuff together.
Now, I just have to try and find the focus to go out on a high at Birmingham.
Thanks everyone – s’been a blast
Z x
Apologies in advance if this looks a little self-important – the intention isn’t to be so, but I felt that it was necessary to state the following, publicly.
After the Birmingham finals this year, I will be relinquishing my role as the chair of FOCAL.
There are two primary reasons for this. One, as several of you will be aware, I have some health issues at present. These issues could be sorted quickly, or they could go on for a while, but either way, these could impact on my ability to be as present at events as I have been. Indeed, in its current venue, I wouldn’t even be able to run MK next year if nothing were to change. They’re also impacting on my enthusiasm (through no fault of the community), and my ability to concentrate and focus, with the medication I’m taking at present. Whilst I need to give myself things to focus on, I think it’s unfair to all of you to make one of those things something that is of relevance to so many of you, when I can’t be sure how good a job I’ll be able to do.
Secondly, I worry that whilst much of it is my own doing, I have positioned myself as being too much of a centrepoint for FOCAL. Now it’s fully established as part of the community, I want to make sure that it can carry on going with another person/people at the steering wheel. Even without health issues, I couldn’t commit to just doing this forever (Countdown is a hobby is something that can peak and trough, as many of us know) – whilst I still have a love for the game and the community seems a good time to see whether something else I have a great love for can flourish without the need for me to be a control freak
I don’t post this publicly to receive any kind of “Oh no, feel better soon!” or any kind of reassurance of the job I’ve been doing – but instead because this might be a good time to get some fresh faces interested. People who perhaps don’t want to run an event of which they are the face, but might like to get involved in the bigger picture. If this is the case, please say so – let’s put some stuff together.
Now, I just have to try and find the focus to go out on a high at Birmingham.
Thanks everyone – s’been a blast
Z x