Your view versus their view: keys to joy survival kit
At the start of the year, I had all of these grand ideas, plans, and goals. Each year I consider them ongoing or modified as each year comes along on ways to improve, whether spiritually, emotionally, physically, mentally, profsssionally, etc. The COVID-19 pandemic hit like a ton of bricks and here I was Ms. Extrovert heart on sleeve completely confused as much of the rest of the world seemed to be; we were stopped dead in our tracks. It goes perfectly with that saying “When a man makes a plan, God laughs.” We had no idea this would be a new norm of wearing masks out in public, learning to socialize in other ways to “get through this together” as they say. I found myself googling ways to cope or hugging social media as a crutch to survive. I learned a couple things and still learning as I go. First, slow the heck down. This situation forced me to get in this habit. Enjoy my husband and our dog in the morning, my cup of coffee or morning texts I’d missed from the night before. I...