Some Things To Do – and Not Do – Right Now

Things to consider doing – and not doing – in this alternate universe of Covid-19.
Do
- Set aside at least one day each week dedicated to rest & renewal
- Follow your energy
- Be gentle with yourself and practice self-compassion
- Tune into your own inner guidance
- Innovate, experiment and explore (if you’re so moved)
- Adjust your expectations
- Focus on what really matters
- Stay connected to the people and things you love in whatever ways you can
- Expand if you’ve got the energy for it
- Listen to your heart and intuition
- Be intentional
- Realize you’re likely feeling your feels, as well as the feels of the collective
- Practice being kind to yourself and others
- Name what’s going on and be empowered as a result
- Include what’s happening into your current reality
- Trust the timing’s right for those things you’re motivated to do
- Keep it simple
- Ask if what you’re about to do, say, or offer will help more, or fewer, people
- Lean into your Super Powers and use them wisely
- Ask what it would be like to be more inspired and positive to yourself
- Acknowledge what is
- Drop the word should from your vocabulary
- Recognize how profoundly your being affects others
- Look for ways to reinvent yourself and your work to be more aligned with your values
- Ask yourself how you can take care of yourself right now by putting your oxygen mask on first
- Dance, sing, be still, run, jump, sleep, veg, read, watch tv, laugh, cry, make music, write, walk, play, enjoy, vent, stare off into space, and eat chocolate when needed
- Realize this is a temporary situation
Don’t
- Force yourself
- Violate your values
- Rely on the way things have been
- Blindly follow the herd
- Expect a lot of focus or productivity, esp. in long stretches
- Assume you have to contract or play small if that’s not where your energy is
- Assume you have to get a lot of things done, either
- Push against what is
- Pretend what’s happening isn’t a big deal
- Act as if it’s business as usual