THE COURAGE TO BE WHERE YOU ARE

COVID-19 changed everything overnight.

After a few days, I found myself getting numb from the overly informed updates and constantly changing guidelines that made me feel left out, and confused on what to do to protect my people or where to take the business.

Yet, certain things continued to stay the same: the importance of community, collaboration, communication, trust, patience, resilience, and creativity.

Courage is also one thing that I’ve been reflecting a lot on:

The courage to listen.
The courage to speak up.
The courage to be still.
The courage to create.
The courage to be ok with not knowing.

And courage to be comfortable with where I am right now at this moment.

We’ve valued certainty for so long that we’ve forgotten how to be ok with uncertainty. This can be a great opportunity for us to learn. Even before COVID, change was happening. The way we work, hire, and travel was changing. But now we are forced to change, to see how much courage we need in our daily lives.

Courage is being ok knowing that standing on a cliff of uncertainty is scary. Courage is being ok with not knowing all the answers. And courage is, despite the uncertainty, making the effort to pause, reflect, and create something good.

Courage is to be who I am, where I am today.