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Stuck at home
A friend told me that she was dreading a possible quarantine in response to the worldwide health emergency.
“But you work at home,” I said. She agreed with me, but made it clear that when it was her choice, it felt different.
The first job is taking care of the people around you and helping others get their health back.
After that, we have choices to make. Choices about how to spend our time, how to connect and how to view the change to our lives.
What if we committed to watching less Netflix, not more? Fewer news updates, fewer YouTube videos, fewer digital distractions.
What if we decided to find a way to connect with people who need us, to lead people forward, to weave something generous for the community?
And what if we chose to learn something? All the time not spent commuting or in meetings–a chance to dive deep into the work of McCoy Tyner, or to understand how probability works.
Even as we retreat from physical interaction, there’s a huge opportunity to actually connect, to learn and to understand.
Panic is a choice, and so is productive generosity.
Good health and peace of mind to you and to people you care about.
When it’s chaos around here
We have two choices:
We can buy into the stress, the noise and the craziness and make it even more chaotic. That’s certainly how it spreads. It feels like the right thing to do–to join in on the anxiety. But it’s not. In fact, the anxiety doesn’t help anyone, and probably makes it harder for those in need. If you’re needed, then help. But if you’re not, if the chaos will get worse if you amplify it, consider a different path.
The other path is to take this moment in time to dig deep and figure out what’s next. In the middle of every market interruption, someone starts building a new market. In the midst of a career adjustment, new careers are built.
The altMBA has a regular decision deadline tomorrow. The session begins April 20.
We’ve engaged with more than 4,000 people around the world over the last four years. The altMBA is not an online course, it’s not video-based and it’s not for a grade. Instead, we’ve committed to finding people who want to work with each other in a journey to level up. You can do it from where you are in your career, and where you are in the world, and a month later, you will have learned a new way forward.
The magic of learning is that it’s yours. Even after the chaos subsides.
Uncertainty, risk and change
When the world changes, it’s easy to feel stressed. That’s because stress is wanting to do two things at the same time–stay and go.
When we’re surrounded by people who are also seeking control over an uncontrollable situation, it magnifies those feelings.
It’s okay, probably even helpful, to begin by clarifying the emotions that we’re feeling, especially when we’re apparently talking about something else. Panic is never a useful plan, and it’s even worse if it seems to be about something else.
People rarely say, “I wish I’d panicked more.”
Day by day, step by step, the present becomes the future, and we make the best decisions that we can.
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