2-3-4 Friday
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1 thought - Easing the fight
Growing up, you may never have fallen sick much.
But with the advent of COVID, and everyone seemingly falling sick, you may have
fallen sick too.
What do you do when you’re sick? How comfortable are you with being sick? It’s one thing to see a doctor and get a MC to prove you’re sick, it’s another thing to be comfortable being sick.
There’s a difference.
I’m sick again.
And this time, it’s the flu. You can barely think. Your brain is a fog. You really want to work on what you need to do, but your brain just.
Isn’t.
Moving.
Your throat is dry, itchy, and yet you can’t cough out
anything.
You hate it. You want to get better so you can get on with it.
So…
Stop.
It’s easy to get sick, not so easy to be sick. Sickness teaches you to stop.
How do you be comfortable resting and doing nothing?
I don’t just mean this physically. Because if we touch our hearts, all of us are sick emotionally.
Over these two long years of COVID, with the world slowly returning to some semblance of normalcy, you are raring to travel the world, race, get
going! If anything, COVID taught us to stop.
And now isn’t the time to speed up. It’s the time perhaps to pause and think,
Is this pace even what I want?
It’s a time to pause and think,
if this was an inflection point, what would I keep from COVID?
Maybe it’s the fact that you don’t have to travel so much for stupid meetings. A Zoom will work.
Or that you
don’t have to meet those relatives that you’ve never wanted to be around with anyway.
Return with intent.
1 talk
What do I want to keep from COVID?
1 tip
Find it hard to think about all the fun things you can suddenly do with the easing of
restrictions?
Make it a point to rest, whether or not you’re sick. Regular timeouts, weekly, every week, even for an hour work. I do:
- Solo runs every Sunday morning at 730am
- Day off every week
- Weekend off every 6 weeks
- No phones every Sunday
This practice of silence and solitude was something I kept from COVID.
What would you do?
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John
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