{"id":247,"date":"2020-10-08T18:16:09","date_gmt":"2020-10-08T18:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/humanequation.net\/?p=247"},"modified":"2021-02-06T19:00:42","modified_gmt":"2021-02-06T19:00:42","slug":"the-new-normal-not-business-as-usual","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/humanequation.net\/the-new-normal-not-business-as-usual\/","title":{"rendered":"The New Normal\/Not Business as Usual"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>If you are a hard-charging person, a Type A person, you make objectives, goals, you are ambitious.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So how does the \u201cCovid Context\u201d interact with your style?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Well you have to be careful so that you are not trapped by the very thing that propels you to success-perfectionism, high standards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You have to watch out for uour control issues, not just planning but having an agenda for the outcome.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I\u2019m not saying that you have to abandon your focused, perhaps even some OCD flavor approach to your life but this pandamic, consuming health crisis is a wakeup call that in order to survive it, to cope with it, maybe even flourish despite it, we must have a willingness to be flexible and change our old ways of doing things.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Covid will trip you up:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>Stress and worry<\/li><li>Working from home<\/li><li>Interuptions and distractions<\/li><li>The tv<\/li><li>Wife<\/li><li>Husband<\/li><li>Computer problems<\/li><li>The dogs in the room<\/li><li>Personal phone calls<\/li><li>Lack of exercise routine<\/li><li>Loss of your routines<\/li><li>Sleep and waking our changes<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>And it is Ok to be tripped up!!!!!!!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em><strong>Be patient and generous with yourself<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You will still get done what you really need to do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It means changing your internal narrative about accomplishing your daily agenda, weekly agenda, monthly agenda.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In my next blog I will discuss what are specific steps you can take to cope with the stress generated by the \u201cAge of Covid.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You have to be careful so that you are not trapped by the very thing that propels you to success-perfectionism, high standards.<br \/>\nYou have to watch out for uour control issues, not just planning but having an agenda for the outcome.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":147,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,9],"tags":[26,28,27],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/humanequation.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/humanequation.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/humanequation.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/humanequation.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/humanequation.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/humanequation.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/humanequation.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/humanequation.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/humanequation.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/humanequation.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}