NUTS TO OMICRON - WE'RE FIGHTING IT WITH 'STRUCTURE' IN 2022!

In the last two years there’s been a bigger focus on health than at any time in history.

The pandemic gave our lives a complex, multi-layered veneer which we didn’t want and didn’t ask for.?

The risk of catching any variation of Covid (including Omicron), having lifelong effects from Long Covid, dying, or losing loved ones, is the iceberg’s tiniest tip.

For many, life has become more fragile and uncertain.?

C-19 has impacted on the economy, education, social and family lives, relationships, careers, the transport infrastructure, vacations, sports, culture, savings and pensions, housing, and much else.

It’s led to job losses, lockdowns, loneliness, vulnerability, fear, grief, distress and anger. It’s shrunk our horizons and reduced our ability to control our lifestyles, strive for goals, and achieve ambitions.?

But we’re still here, and we still have to live our lives.?

The Pandemic is partly political, because it affects so many aspects of life, and leaders must adjudicate between (sometimes) conflicting advice from business, mental health and community service providers, doctors and others.

Some tell us all to do one thing, then seem to do something else, themselves; some seek to politicise it more than necessary, with unproductive, distracting, divisive, obstructive argument.?

We’ve scrutinised the conduct of our leaders, to ensure that we are, indeed, all in it together; because they’re human, they’ve sometimes fallen short, and we’ve judged them, adding to a sense of chaos and lack of direction.?

It’s been fertile ground for crazy conspiracy theories and barking-mad falsehoods ensnaring the mentally vulnerable, the credulous, and those unable to apply critical thinking.

The financial costs have been eyewatering – beyond the comprehension of most of us; the repayment period will be measured in generations.?

All this causes more confusion, leads to a sense of leadership failure, and makes us feel that we've lost control over our destiny.

But in spite of all of that, it hasn’t beaten us.

Where leadership has succeeded, we've supported it; where it's failed, we've all provided our own. Strategies and plans for recovery have emerged; it isn’t easy, it won’t be quick, and it will require everything the human spirit can summon.?But in the last couple of years, we've shown that we can do this.

For most, the biggest contribution we’ll be able to make is to ‘do our bit’, on a small, domestic, level.??

But to ‘do our bit’, against the epic backdrop of a global pandemic, we must maintain our pragmatic diligence over all the normal, day-to-day health and safety issues. The small things which help us to keep us a little safer.

For humanity, life will go on, of course … it’s just become more complicated.

In the face of complexity, however, structure can help.

It can simplify the complexity, order priorities, clarify thinking, and make us more strategic.

There’s little that Xmo Strata can do to make an impact on a global pandemic, but just paying attention to the normal, pragmatic details of every day life can help to ground us.??

So, in 2022, we’re going to ’do our bit’ and adhere to our structured approach to health and safety.

Each month, we’ll have a ‘theme’, and we’ll address different aspects of that theme through the month.?

Focus, and structure.?

It’s part of our contribution to making life just a little safer, a little more predictable, and a little less chaotic.

It may be a small thing, set against the epic scale of a global pandemic.

But it’s what we can do.??

And nuts to Omicron.

Happy Christmas and a prosperous 2022 to all my LinkedIn contacts - thank you for your company through 2021!

Let's keep in touch through this very tough period!

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