This is a humbling time for everyone and a time for self-reckoning. We will all be changed in one way or another. Humbling times bring out the best and the worst in us and right now, this pandemic is showing us both.
I’m personally seeing generosity in the most surprising places and seeing greed rear its ugly head at some of the few closing tables happening. That aside, humbling times are always rotten. There’s no easy way to sugarcoat it because being cut off at the knees and suddenly facing an unknown challenge is a terrible place to be. This is a time we have been forced to reckon with. For most of us, it has forced us to pause, think, and reflect.
We all want to live a life with no regrets and most of us are asking ourselves some important questions about our past. “What might I have done differently?”” Could I have prepared myself better?’ Mostly questions we don’t ordinarily have the time or inclination to ask ourselves when our daily routines aren’t interrupted. But right now, we have the luxury of pause and have the opportunity to be asking ourselves questions about our future.
How can I better structure my life when this pandemic is over?
What have i learned during this pause that I want to carry into my post-pandemic life? What do I want to leave behind?
Am I living how and where I want?
Do the people in my life help lift me up or bring me down? What am going to do about that now?
Is what I’m doing day in and day out support my long-term goals, both personally and professionally?
Almost a quarter of all small businesses will not survive. They will need to morph or close. We will need to reset and reinvent ourselves and how we do it.
Right now, is a time of reckoning where we can set a course for our future and define what we will do moving forward.
Don’t let this time go to waste.