The one thing that being in lockdown has given all of us, is Time. The best wines or cognac’s all improve with time. Therefore, time adds value. What value then have we gained from the gift of time foisted on us through the Covid-19 lockdown?
As we lean into the experience of this strange and scary situation, we all live in right now, we start to let go of our attachments to what was and what now cannot be, we start to accept the reality thereof. So how do we start to create our new realities? That journey will be different for each one of us but there are a few things we can practise that will help us to shape that more effectively.
This urge to write about Leadership has been brought about by our World Leaders who, within the context of Covid-19, are displaying abundant examples of admirable leadership characteristics, on the positive end of the scale to leaders who fail to understand the meaning of accountability, as an example of abysmal leadership.
It is important to realize that no one is guaranteed a tomorrow. We do not even know what that tomorrow will look like. So many of us have lost loved ones long before we expected that to happen. And when then do we tell those who mean so much to us, that they are the Wind Beneath our Wings? When do we tell them what they mean to us?
I do believe that the combination of my career, training and life experiences offer rich insights and learnings, and if others can benefit from that and as a result, learn to fly, then my goal has been achieved.
I started writing this on day 2 of the Lockdown in South Africa due to the Covid-19 Virus. My blog will not be about Covid 19. Yet we must acknowledge that we live in a unique time. A complex, scary and tragic time and we can add an array of adjectives to this. It makes us feel vulnerable and being in lockdown has clipped all of our wings. So how do we deal with this?