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Monday Morning Meeting
By Monica Davidson I first started having the Monday Morning Meeting (MMM) when I was still at university, and discussing the idea of setting up a film business with two friends. Every Monday the three of us would meet in the local café and work out what needed to be done during that week to realise our goals. We would create a prioritised list of duties and activities, and afterwards, I would gleefully dash off and try to complete as many of those tasks as I could, in preparation for the accountability of the following week’s meeting. That fledgling business went nowhere, but I set myself up as a solo freelancer after graduation. I spent weeks feeling lost, scared, and unsure of what my...
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