Your world has been turned upside down in the past two months, categorically.

Your future plans are on hold and uncertain at best and many have been cancelled without chance of recovery; graduations, birthdays, lost hug opportunities.

Your sleep cycle is off as you worry about your job, your company, and your loved ones.

I think these comments are pretty universal right now and, as a nation, we are doing OK, coping the best we know how.  We are still anxious, we are still hopeful and we are still “swimming”.

Life keeps moving forward regardless of whether you have been considered essential or not by some agency.  We are all critically important.  Note: I have two sisters in the healthcare industry who deserve extra attention right now but have always been essential to the patients they serve.

Let’s take some time to reflect on what your day looks like and what you are doing with the additional time you’ve been gifted with. Yes, I said gifted.  Can you remember a time when you were stressed and you thought to yourself, I wish things would slow down a little, if only briefly?  Here you go!  Lights, camera, ACTION!

So what have you done to prepare yourself for behaving differently as opposed to waiting for the world to return to 2019 normal?

•Exercise?

•Eat better?

•Read?

•Write?

•Clean out your closets, garage, or files?

A couple of things to consider as you do differently from now forward

-Helping others takes your mind off of your concerns and right now there are a lot of areas of need.  A couple top of mind:

•Working parents supporting their kids as they distance learn

•Restaurants are serving curbside to try to keep operations going

What if you put the two real concerns above together?  Patronize a vendor and order extra for your friend or neighbor so they don’t have to cook tonight but can spend an extra hour teaching their kids?

-Resolving to put aside differences between a former friend or neglected family member:

•If ever there was a time to acknowledge life is precious and there are no guarantees in this world, now would be such a time

Have a blessed week!

Adapt, adjust, endure and excel.