2021 — How to Start Fresh (and Make the Right Choices)
First, I am going to toss out the old “blueprints.”
What a year. Everything was different.
And, I don’t know about you, but I really needed a break.
It’s time for reflection, but also to make some hard choices. And I don’t mean the usual New Year resolutions we make every year. Less sugar. More gym.
We need something totally different.
But big life choices are harder when there is so much uncertainty and we don’t know what the future will bring.
Day-to-day routines are constantly changing. What will happen with work-from-home? And what about travel? Schools? Shopping?
I see the confusion with my students. They had it all figured out before, but now they suddenly find that their dreams and plans might not work anymore. The uncertainty makes them nervous and more and more of them are considering remaining students and enrolling in another school or program.
Taking a pause seems to make sense but isn’t always possible. Waiting for everything to go back to normal, or at least, settle down, may even be a mistake. What if radical uncertainty has become a permanent condition of our lives?
