Coronavirus + Our New Normal: How a pandemic can help shift our mindset
It’s hard to believe it’s been 2 whole weeks of our new normal here in New York City. In one breath, time has slowed down significantly, and in another, it’s flown.
As we all now know, social distancing and staying home is the only way to keep our families and communities safe, and to ensure a healthier, coronavirus free tomorrow.
But just because we are staying home doesn’t mean time has stopped, or things have suddenly become easier. In fact, most of us are juggling more than we ever have in our entire lives!
Like many of you, I’m playing mom, wife, business owner, & now school teacher all within the constraints of my 1200 square foot home. Things are going… well, things are going! hah!
I’d be lying if I said I knew how to get through this unscathed. The first couple of days I put on a happy face, and went into overdrive to compensate. By day 3, I was sobbing. I realized I couldn’t fix or control what was happening around me,
…despite the fact that as an organizer, and all around human, I’m used to fixing things.
So after I let it all out, I let it all go. I forgave myself, accepted the awfully complicated and tragic situation we were all in, and shifted my lens towards gratitude and connection.
It’s not a competition. It’s a pandemic.
It doesn’t matter if you are currently using your kitchen table as a makeshift desk, if your kids are watching more hours of tv than you’d like to admit, or if you’ve worn pajama pants for every one of your zoom calls this week…
What’s important is we stay happy, healthy, calm and safe. Period.
Sure, we can make improvements (and we will!), but we must allow ourselves the space in which we need to put one foot in front of the other to survive, and simultaneously heal during this time.
For there is no manual for this…
And if this pandemic teaches us anything, let it be that we focus on our abundance, and not a lack thereof.
That we appreciate and lift each other up.
That we nurture our homes that support our families.
That we foster an abundance mindset no matter how many rolls of toilet paper we may have claimed.
Because at the core, we as humans need one another, and working together (apart), is how we will see this time through.