As a business owner and entrepreneur, I have been waiting for the post-Covid world to happen for some time now, whilst making all the adjustments I need to make to my business to be Covid safe. But now as Melbourne reaches its 200th day of Lockdowns, I am beginning to feel I need a new mindset.
Shifting my mind to the present
I’m starting to question, what if I shifted my mindset more to the present rather than waiting for things to return to the past in a future post-Covid world.
I’m asking myself the question, how do I make this work, today. How do I now move into a future with what I know today, and what’s the next logical step based on that knowledge?
I need long-term visioning but shorter-term planning to ensure I’m staying agile and adaptable and innovating in the micro-moments.
When the pandemic hit in early 2020 I was the one who was telling my business partner, this will be all over in a month or two. Having lived through the SARS epidemic in SE Asia, she cautioned me that it would be much longer than that, perhaps 6-9 months! Neither of us foresaw that we would be in a Delta Variant wave more than 18 months later, how could we? And how can we know where we’ll be in 18 months from now? Will it be a post-Covid world or a different type of world?
A today mindset of gratitude
So that leaves me with a today mindset. Where I can look at where the opportunities are and move towards them. And I can, with open eyes, look for things I can be grateful for today, and what I can change today. And I can apply an eternal optimism to a future post-Covid world and choose to continue to let positivity motivate my thoughts and actions.
To repair with gold
And today, I choose to put the pieces back together with gold, like the beautiful Japanese practice of Kirsukuroi: “to repair with gold”; the art of repairing pottery with gold or silver lacquer and understanding that the piece is more beautiful for having been broken.
Contact me if you need some help with your mindset or some repairing with gold, I’m here to help!
Source: The Japanese art of fixing broken pottery – BBC REEL – https://youtu.be/r9LMKGte0UU