Sustainable Me

COVID-19  smacked us in the face out of nowhere , didn’t it? The effects of the pandemic are unprecedented and so significant that the whole world is in a state of emergency. Economies are baldy impacted and this does have a rippling effect on all of us. It looks like the negative impacts will continue to be encountered in the foreseeable future. But, there’s a BIG But! Ups & Downs Where would the “Ups” come from without the “Downs”? Now if you start to keep the emotions at bay and start thinking logically, you will realize that adversity has brought out the best in us as we try to navigate through trying times. A quick glance at such events in history will highlight key inventions that came out of most trying times. So we can try to find peace in the fact that good things are coming our way! 😊 Focus On What Is In YOUR Control You control your emotions, your decisions, your feelings, your thinking, your motivation, your need to be better and the list goes on. Rather...

Curfew will be imposed for a day or two was what we all heard initially and never in our wildest dreams thought that days would turn into weeks and weeks into months! These are unprecedented times and we have no choice but to face the reality of how things are. There are moments we think about the good times we had during pre-COVID-19 and start grumbling about the predicament we are in and guess what? That is fine! I would like to shed light on a few things that I am going through which probably you can relate to reasonably well. Under house arrest This is probably what someone who is under house arrest feels like. We aren’t allowed to step out of the house (being very cynical here), we can’t go on our regular drives, we can’t go partying, we can’t eat out, we can’t go shopping and yes- the list goes on! Implications More time to think means for some of us – more time to OVERTHINK (myself included). This is something we should be mindful of as we may tend to “make a mount...