Allow me to begin by just saying that I hope you had a wonderful and safe Thanksgiving Day. Mine was a very low-key affair, though I did have a Zoom meeting with the extended family late in the afternoon and got in a little sports-watching. I also began planning the transition to a new ICC associate this evening by determining what information they were going to need. In the case of the website, I had created that document some time ago. Now I just have to walk them through the process of collecting e-mails from governing bodies for sport–potentially. If I can get through all of them before the end of this month, I will but if not, it is nothing the next person cannot take care of.
Void of anything substantial to share with you regarding the collection of e-mails, I promised I was going to start reflecting on the ICC mentorship this Thanksgiving and that is precisely what I intend to do. This has been a challenging year overall, I began 2020 planning to go to Tokyo for the Summer Olympics when COVID forced its postponement to 2021. If there is anything though that I have learned during my professional career, it is that things do not always work out the way you had hoped and you can choose to dwell on what could have been or work with what you have. In the instance of the Olympics, I went with the latter and am generally glad I did so. Now, I have barely scratched the surface with these first few sentences, but I want to leave it here for now and pick it back up tomorrow.