#XrisLogbook 183 - People, Places, Perspectives 🇫🇷

👍🏻 This week felt strangely symbolic. Sophie and I spent a few days in Paris, catching up with close friends before leaving Europe next month. At the same time, Lucy was away on her final Year 6 trip to the Isle of Wight with her classmates. While we were celebrating friendships built over many years, she was creating memories with friends she may remember for the rest of her life. Different moments, different generations… yet both quietly marking the end of an important chapter. Growing up isn’t only about children. Adults go through their own transitions too. We simply call them “life decisions.” ❤️

👎🏻 Moving countries has an unexpected side effect: you suddenly realise how many people have quietly become part of your daily life. The friend you always call when you’re in Paris. The neighbour you wave to without thinking. The familiar café. The spontaneous dinner. None of these disappear overnight, but you become much more aware of them once you know they won’t be around every week. Funny how distance often reveals the true value of proximity. 😄

✍🏻 This week reinforced something I’ve been thinking about for a long time. We spend years investing in careers, businesses and opportunities. Yet when a chapter closes, it is rarely the deals we remember first. It is the conversations. The friendships. The people who quietly shaped our journey. Companies create value. People create meaning. The older I get, the more I realise that Building What Matters has never really been about companies. It has always been about people. 🌍

🙏🏻 Special thanks this week to Delvis , Sylvère , Arnaud , Olivier , Sandra , Vincent , Emmanuelle

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