Lockdown 2020: What Will You Do With Your Time?
Well, now here we are, completely knocked off our fast-moving proverbial life roller coaster. What Now!!!!!?
What will you do with this quarantined/locked-down time?
We find ourselves sequestered in our homes and can make limited emergency visits to the store to see if the shelves are re-stocked.
While collecting old mismatched and unpaired socks, just in case the TP does run out.
Time to teach children what rationing means and how implementing this survival skill will keep them from going hungry. When we are out of the food we are used to having around, we will and can become creative at finding comparable replacements.
Now is the time to consider that dream of using your talents or natural abilities to make a living.
Now is the time to completely re-evaluate what we are doing with this miracle called Life. Do a complete Mental, Physical, Emotional, and Environmental Cleanse.
A few things each of us can ask ourselves.
Be honest, write the answers down then really evaluate your responses.
1. What is working in my Life? (only list what is working well)
2. What is Not Working in my Life? (be honest in this response.)
3. What can be changed, in the way I am living, that will bring greater peace, fulfillment, and happiness? (Maybe not re-boarding the rollercoaster you have been on)
4. What do we want to let go of to simplify my/our lives? (too many obligations?)
5. What do we want to keep in our Life and Living Space? (More family time taking more adventures together)
6. What are the steps I am willing to take to make the changes I know would improve my way of Life?
Make a Vision Board, Bucket List, and a Life Map everyone is on board with to begin this phenomenal direction you and your family can now take.
IMPORTANT….. Do not go haywire and try to take on the whole elephant!
One step within the following sections of Life is a positive start:
A. HEALTH (eating smaller portions and make healthier choices)
B. FAMILY (more time together less running from one event to another. Pick one for each child and adult, it will allow them the opportunity to become their best at that event)
C. ROMANCE (implement date night at a minimum of twice a month, with or without a partner/mate. Check in with each other every day)
D. FINANCE (set in motion the discipline of paying off credit cards, as the balance shows up. This alone will boost your money flow)
E. CAREER (is it time to start on that long wanted degree or certification? Is it time to use your God-given talents to make a living?
F. FRIENDS ( is it time to build a new Tribe and let go of a few acquaintances?)
G. SPIRITUALITY ( Define what Spirituality means to you and implement that into your daily way of living.)
H. CONTRIBUTIONS (charity begins at home, then it is easy to help others)
One thing for sure, we all will become much more creative with our meals, the way we entertain ourselves and making use of family time.
A positive in all this, we can get to know ourselves, our spouses/mates, and our family members again.
As serious as this is, I am doing my best to find the positive in each day. I mean, thank the Universe, for gifting me with waking up and being blessed with another day, lockdown or not. I made a lentil soup today and told my family they were having a complete gourmet dinner. Instead of tossing in whole veggies, I chopped them into small pieces. This way, everyone got what they needed to stay healthy in every bite. Which also, of course, stretches our meal out for a couple of days.
If it does get tough, I may need to go back to the days my father had to experience during the Depression. Make water gravy to mix with rice or pour over hardtack biscuits with a side of dandelion greens from the yard. Either way, we will survive.
Once the panic subsides and reason sets in, our thinking will resume to logic and common-sense solutions to this predicament we find ourselves experiencing.
Instead of panicking over toilet paper, we will realize how easy it is for a virus to cripple an entire world. How quickly our government can take control and put us all in lockdown.
My common sense tells me, we can never again not be prepared to survive a disaster, natural or imposed. It is time to take seriously preparing an emergency container of survival equipment, food, personal supplies, and clothing.
We stay protected by standing together, helping each other. It is vital to establish a cohesive governing body that can work together and know that solutions are more important than who is winning for the good of “We the People.”
This virus is a severe threat. There is no room for error.
Take care of yourselves, share if you can or need to, and find the things to be grateful for, even in our time of crisis.
Leave a comment below about how you’re feeling, and what you’re thankful for, or come visit me on Facebook and let me know!
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