This is my last post before my annual August hiatus. I’m treating it as a season finale of this first season of Covid.
I thought it would be fun to mix it up and do a video instead of a written post. I wanted to actually talk with you…after all we’ve been through in the past four months.
In the video, I share the good, the bad, and the ugly of dealing with Covid for me. And I share some of the things I’m excited about, like launching the first of what will be a complete digital, on-demand version of all the exercises that were traditionally only available to our consulting clients.
Check out the first one here and use the code “subscriber” to get it for half price until July 31st.
Staying Out of the Weeds Course
If you watch to the end of the video, you’ll see that I ask you to email me with your answers to a few questions. I’d be genuinely tickled if you took a moment to respond.
Ok, here it is… (Sorry about the sound, I had the mic on to hot.)
Talk to you soon,
Great wrap up…
thanks for sharing. For those in business contemplating “ retirement” during this time I’d add the following from my personal covid journey…
-Prepare to learn/ try something new often
-Beware “sameness”… it makes your world very small!
-Accept ambiguity and conditions you cannot change or control
-Treasure your good relationships
-Keep active
-“inventory” all the good aspects of your life… probably a lot more than you realize
– carry on! You can do it!
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Thanks Teri, I agree strongly with the idea of trying and learning new things to keep the walls from closing in. That was just as true for me! Thanks for joining the conversation and wishing you a series of new adventures (even if they are closer to home than normal)
Negative – The isolation, work went on as usual for me (working in hospital). Not being able to visit my aging parents in another city, or my children in another province. Initially, the restrictions placed on things like grocery shopping.
Positive – Continued good health despite of Covid and being able to pay bills.
Kat, thank you so much for joining the conversation and sharing your Covid good, bad, and ugly. I’m sure that even though you were busy working in healthcare, it was surreal because you were continuing to get up and go to work while others were not. I’m sad for your whole family that you couldn’t be together and hoping that you’ll be able to see each other again soon.
Hi, Liane. Thanks for the update. Enjoy your time off: Sitting on the dock sounds wonderful.
I’m a quiet, at-home type. And I was easily able to shift my work from the office to home. So I’m sure I’ve been affected less by Covid-19 than many others have. Still, there seems to be an eroding of the social fabric that I share with my colleagues: the chance encounters in the break room, the ease of dropping by to ask someone a question. The trend has been so gradual, I can’t clearly see it without stopping and focusing. Yet as the months of isolation roll on, I think we’ll need to confront it and find a new normal that works.
You’ve helped me understand that I should plan an end-of-summer break, even if I just spend it at home. Perhaps taking that break, and especially returning from it, will help crystallize my vision of how the social fabric has changed. And hopefully it’ll energize me to find solutions and start carrying them out.