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This is a Chance to Practice Your Pivot
Life is unexpected–but what really matters is how you deal with it.
This weekend I went hiking. It’s one of the only activities we can still do in a pandemic, provided we take precautions.
I encountered a fair amount of people wildly unprepared for their hikes with bewildered looks on their faces. People who may as well have been wearing t-shirts that read “I’m scared and I’m doing it anyway.”
People who were in the middle of a pivot.
So many of us are forced to pivot in the coronavirus from our old lives to a new reality. It’s easy to think that we are on pause right now and that, whenever we are all released from stay at home orders and allowed to move about at will, we will resume our old lives. But its likelier that won’t be the case.
The longer businesses stay shuttered, the greater the chance that some will never reopen. Many people who had stable jobs will no longer have those jobs to get back to. Many people will be grieving the loss of loved ones. Many people who were living on the margins, barely getting by in a paycheck-to-paycheck existence, are and will continue to struggle to access basic resources.
We are in the middle of a pivot–on the global level and individually. But what does that mean…
