So, it’s Monday and the sixth time we’ve woken up to a week in the new world, trying to navigate a schedule and a task in a way that I've never done before.
The anxiety got me again today and I think perhaps when you write something like this you are not supposed to talk about that?
It comes from trying to see over the horizon ‘to a way out of this’ and being unable to do that.
It comes from being unable to navigate the hyperobject there are too many strands and tendrils to this problem to be able to work it out.
And It comes from a sense of responsibility to the people to whom I made a promise that I would look after and wanting to be able to keep that promise.
And so, and although it doesn’t happen very often, I spiral a little bit down into a place where there are no solutions and then I begin to climb back out.
I climb back out with objective data, I climb back out by speaking to people who are better than me or wiser than me or calmer than me (at least at the moment).
But mostly I climb back out by travelling to what I can see would be the worst-case scenario and understanding that even should that come to pass, I will still be ok.
And then I signed up to the Bootstrapper’s workshop with Seth Godin.
I’ve seen this countless times before and about 10,000 people have already done it and it came up again in Seth’s blog last week.
I held off a little bit too long because I lost part of the early bird discount, but for £277 I get 100 days and 60 videos and an online community from all around the world to share with and talk to and learn and try to become better.
I enter into a world of optimists and creative people who want to try to make a positive difference, despite the circumstances of the world.
I don’t have time for this, even in lockdown but that’s the secret isn’t it.
To break out of the norm and to break out of the routine to achieve something different that will make me better.
And then I became excited about change and about doing something which would ‘bring me on’.
Whatever happens from here and whatever I need I will get something from the Bootstrapper's workshop that will help me.
Blog Post Number - 2350
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