30 Apr What one COVID lesson have you learned about yourself?

This shutdown could end tomorrow –
What will you be able to say you learned about yourself during this hiccup in time?

What is your COVID lesson?

This experience has been different for each of us.
Some of us have been privileged enough to be sequestered at home, sheltering in place to help flatten the curve.
Others have been in the thick of the crisis:

• on the front-lines of the health crisis in hospitals, helping keep people safe
• staffing the crucial roles of grocery stores and other essential services
• figuring out stages one, two, three and four beyond this crisis for when we are through the other end
• juggling kids, kids’ school training, a very different home cycle from normal, and their own intense work obligations

No matter your situation, we will each coming out of this knowing something new or confirming something we knew about ourselves.

My personal COVID lesson

1. In these tempestuous times, we live in shades of grey. What felt like black and white has changed hue, coloured and textured in the face of new data, different circumstances.

The 10 countdown

My predictions about the Future of Work were fairly robust. Including the fact they would ripple into the Future of Education, changes to Society, Government, Economics.  I had not seen this virus sending everything into warp drive! Major confidence boost, and opportunity to continue sharing these foresight thoughts and ideas.

And this 10-day countdown has been part of me creating accountability & tension for myself, to ensure I keep communicating. Otherwise, my normal extrovert self may have felt safer in hibernation mode.

Have I made you think differently?

My mission has always been to encourage my audience to lift their heads up from the day-to-day grind and entertain a different perspective. I hope that the variety of lists that we have crowd-sourced have offered many of us some different ideas. These ideas continue to come in, and I will periodically edit the articles to include your ideas that are still coming in via LinkedIn, Instagram, Twitter, FB, and the website.

Your turn to share:

Regardless of your vantage point, would you care to do a 15-minute introspective and share:

And then take a few more minutes to consider:
As we come into a new normal, will you get caught up in a storm of catch-up at work and in your personal life?
Will you choose to keep the spotlight focused on yourself?
Will you keep investing in a habit or a self-caring that you have started during these COVID times?

My COVID-19 lessons

This has been a huge hiccup in time. And a great opportunity for self-reflection.

Also in this series:

• 10 – List 10 staples that you will always have on hand
• 9 – glorious Earth day links
• 8 – of the most effective communications
• 7 – technologies that are important in a present-day COVID-19 world
• 6 – careers in a time of COVID-19
• 5 – Pick 5 people and reconnect
• 4 – Send 4 messages to my time-traveller self
• 3 – Tips, tricks & hacks that make WFH and social distancing more manageable
• 2 – reliable sources of information
• 1 – what is your COVID lesson?