The new Business Madame Special Enter was released: for an fall in Reset mode!

We're not going to lie to each other: after a year and a half spent mainly taking care of others, and the end of the Covid tunnel potentially pointing its nose with vaccination, it might be wise - for not not to say urgent - to allow yourself, at the end of the year, to think a little about yourself. “At a certain point, it is – even – thinking only of oneself that is the most human”, writes Emmanuel Carrère in Other lives than mine (1). It is never simple, nor easy to assume. And when we succeed, life takes care of bringing its share of grains of sand, as if to bring us back to our first condition, which remains the link to the other.

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But all the same. Flatten what we want, and what we no longer accept. Go to the essentials by deciding for once to be the priority. Build your personal recovery plan, agree to take less on your shoulders, to (re) settle down. Erect imperfection as an outward sign of leadership, because those who decide and influence have neither the time nor the availability of spirit to look like an Instagram post. Their daily life - not to mention their children - is unfiltered, not really tone on tone. But their actions, their commitments, change the color codes. Develop its impact, let the wind of creativity blow, register its action in the care of the planet, of the generations of tomorrow: building a trajectory is never a straight, perfect, well-ordered line. This requires renewed – and renewable – energy. Giving up on ticking all the boxes is part of the way. "To be irreplaceable, assured Coco Chanel, who mastered the subject quite well, you have to be different." That's good.

(1) Lives other than mine, Emmanuel Carrère, 2017, Folio, 320 p., €8.10. Available on leslibraires.fr.

To buy the special edition directly on the Figaro store, it's here!