Surviving Your New Normal – A Learn As You Go Guide

Surviving Your New Normal – A Learn As You Go Guide

So in an instant, I found myself canceling vacations, working 100% remotely, helping our children with their e-schooling and growing anxiety, negotiating to keep business investments in tact and managing my calendar against life’s unknowns, all while fighting to stay Corona-Virus free, might I add.

Thinking this whole time, “What the heck happened?”  In ONLY 45-days, how’d I go from Thriving to Surviving this thing I call my New Normal?

Before I try to answer this question, let’s just agree that despite what ‘EXPERTS’ are saying, there’s REALLY no playbook, blueprint, or manual for coping with COVID19’s Impact in a New World. 

By NEW world, I mean a NEW 2020-World - one where some vehicles drive without drivers, teams are co-located across countries, virtual realities are now the NEW reality, food can be ordered & delivered with the click of a button on a smart phone and paid for later (if you so choose) and you can have your doctor’s appointment and get almost any prescription shipped to your front door, all without leaving your couch.

This is not your 1918, 2001 or 2008 pandemic and instead this is an iconic 2020 Toughness Test of a different color, which has totally different impacts and requires a new/revised playbook, one where you learn the plays as you go with life altering consequences.

And we’re here for it all; because if there’s one amazing thing we have in our favor, it’s that the tools it takes to survive this seemingly new normal, aren’t exactly new to us!

While the effects of this pandemic will horribly stress our economy and forever change lives, in a peculiar way we were already operating as a mobile-majority and cloud based society. Which means, in some instances we’re not new to socializing, surviving and thriving in the cloud, we’ve been preparing.

Yep, it’s a new world indeed and what I’m really stating here is that we’re all doing our best to wing it together since no one alive has ever ‘managed’ through a Pandemic of this magnitude.

As we encourage, motivate and inform each other, make no mistakes, we’re all trying our best to survive this NEW NORMAL individually & together.

I won't pretend to know how this whole thing will shake out. I will however, tell you that WE have the tools, the heart and the spirit to make it through this!

#motivation #inspiration #hope