The Quarantine “Let’s Get Stuff Done List”

When all of this madness started, the mandatory lock downs and quarantine, being a “glass-half-full” girl I immediately began to process how I would make lemonade out of all of the lemons that were literally falling off the trees and banging me in the head! Speaking engagement after speaking engagement after speaking engagement cancelled faster than the Indy 500 race! Just hitting “cancel” on my calendar took me hours to get myself reset for what would turn into a few months. Flights cancelled, hotels cancelled, and all the other logistics that come with that world, cancelled. Whew.

Again, being a positive thinkin’ kinda gal, I created a list of what I was going to get done with this new-found time of not traveling and the demands of the road and speaking. And, when I say “list” it was a LIST! The on-line classes, projects around the house and in my creative room, I’m not really sure what was going through my mind on exactly how long this madness would last but as I look back on that list now, I must have thought eternity would be the end of this crazy lockdown! But nonetheless, I motivated myself to make the best of it, and to take the respite to reconnect on so many levels with things that had been pushed to the side because of my insane speaking schedule and travel. NOW is the time, I said to myself. NOW is the time to get things done I’ve been wanting to do!

After all these weeks, our state has started opening again. Things are trying to get back to normal, albeit a new normal. But it’s slowly crawling there.

So, I dug out that LIST. Holy crap! Seriously, I’m not sure WHAT I’ve been doing all of these weeks, as there’s only a small dent in the list, but nothing like I thought there would be with all of my new-found time! WTH?

Being the optimist, I did take a toll on WHAT did happen, and it was some things. For that, I cheered for myself. I looked at what has not happened, and guess what? I got a new list, one more reasonable, with new outdates, and now we start again.

This was all yet another huge reminder to me: tomorrow is another day. Stay focused. Cheer for myself.

Okay, back to the list! Here’s to you! Go rock it!