406 - Stress vs. Chaos
Organize 365 Podcast
Lisa Woodruff
4.5 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 14 May 2021
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
Today, I want to process through some observations for you about what I am expecting for the Summer of 2021. The pandemic continues to change, and we are starting to have updated recommendations and increasing freedom to do more once again. Almost all of us have something that the pandemic took from us, but getting back to our old "normal" brings up feelings of both stress and chaos. I actually expect that we will have at least two more years of life disruptions as a result of the pandemic.
Stress is a constraint, but is also a force that causes change. Stress makes coal into diamonds. In our lives, stress can be what helps us prioritize the most important thing and eliminate everything else.
Chaos, on the other hand, is a threat to our survival or resources. Chaos affects our needs, not our wants. It is panic inducing and fear provoking. Think back to the toilet paper shortages of the early lockdowns - that was chaos.
I want to talk with you about how to apply these definitions to your upcoming summer so that you can use stress to maximize the good, and avoid chaos.
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| 0:00.0 | Today's mailbag comes to us from Anita, discovery. |
| 0:05.4 | My kids are 19 and 21 and they are in college and also at home, not exactly how I had imagined |
| 0:12.0 | it would be, but there is hope on the horizon and that they will be able to launch into |
| 0:16.4 | the world and experience life on their own at some point. |
| 0:20.2 | My plans were that when they went off to college, I would have time to figure out what was |
| 0:24.3 | next for me. |
| 0:25.3 | Well, that got put on hold with COVID. |
| 0:27.8 | My son moved back home and my daughter had to deal with all of the disappointment of |
| 0:31.6 | not moving into the dorms and being on her own like she had been dreaming about for years. |
| 0:37.6 | We've all had to adjust with COVID, but we have been so fortunate that both my husband |
| 0:42.0 | and I stayed employed. |
| 0:43.8 | None of us have been sick and with a lot of effort we have been able to make it work. |
| 0:48.8 | Some days have been better than others. |
| 0:51.3 | Even though my kids are still home, I am going to carve out some time to start planning |
| 0:55.4 | in the fall to actually discover what I want for my self-career-wise in the next five |
| 1:00.1 | years, I'm going to start making family plans and to figure out what I want to work on |
| 1:04.6 | in our house. |
| 1:06.1 | One thing I have already discovered is that I have the ability to figure out alternatives |
| 1:10.2 | when something doesn't work for me. |
| 1:12.3 | I loved the idea of doing puzzles and I had one sitting around for years in the box |
| 1:16.4 | unopened. |
| 1:17.6 | At the beginning of COVID, I got the puzzle out and completed it. |
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