2020: From driving crazy to thinking properly
2020 was a great year to push us to the limit. Most of us were stuck at home during the pandemic and somehow by restricting us from our typical lives, the pandemic also showed us a lot of things that actually we should have done earlier. 2020 showed us that from time to time, we need to stop and rethink all of our choices and re-establish our path.
Some of us are quite good with planning: from project managers to supply chain managers, all of them are quite familiar with tons of tools and methodologies properly designed to increase productivity. We manage to think fast and adapt constantly. However, most of the time we don’t apply it to our own lives. Usually, we are driven to plan. We are constantly planning and we talk a lot about the future and about our goals and how to pursue them, but we are awful at making follow-ups regarding our personal plans.
Most of us live in a consumer robot behavior. Maybe my smart vacuum cleaner is, in fact, not so smart, but from observing it I notice that every time it finds a wall it continues bouncing off. The same as us. We are so overwhelmed with our routine procedures that it is difficult to stop and identify the pain points on our own path.
2020 brought us the possibility to stop, even for a little. It brought us the possibility to think clearly about our careers, our relationships, our choices, our own businesses. We all know someone whose life was utterly changed this year. Divorce rates set the record and thousands of people looked up online courses. Some rediscovered their passion for painting and others became master chefs. We all read more, we all had more time for family and, in the end, it showed the importance of having time to re-evaluate our life, from time to time. The need to autoselect data from ourselves and being a decision-maker.
It is normal that after some years in a relationship, a job, or doing the same type of task, we lost the concept of perspective. We are so intrinsically connected to something or to someone that we are not capable of analyzing all aspects involved, anymore. It is the same thing with reading our own text multiple times trying to find typos immediately after writing it.
In order to diagnose our own life properly, we need to stop, and stop doesn’t mean being numb. It means restarting in another way, changing the perspective and the way we usually do things.
This could be the key to restore our capacity to clearly analyze the common situations of our life and look up to improve them, making 2021 a new prosperous year.
