I’ve Learned How to be Kind With Myself Whilst Still Expecting Progress

It’s impacted it a lot in some ways and also not at all. Let me explain.

I’ve been doing the whole remote / WFH for the past five years so when this happened I was very acclimated already. I had a schedule that allowed me to be productive, and I knew already what worked for me and what didn’t. 

However, when COVID-19 hit my husband and I were taking a road trip to Canada with our dog. So we ended up being stuck in Vancouver and had to stay there for much longer than expected. The hardest piece for me was not being able to be ‘home’ during the lockdown 

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The books I have been sharing a lot lately are: 

• Wordslut by Amanda Montell 
• For the Love of Men by Elizabeth Plank  
• Talking to Strangers by Malcolm Gladwell 
• Uncanny Valley by Anna Wiener  
• I also absolutely love Blowing the Bloody Doors Off by Michael Caine 

From a business perspective, I think people are going to realise that great humans can get the job done from anywhere. And the technology available to us today allows us to replicate the in-person feeling. But we can’t just count on the technology, we need to adapt and be willing to learn the skill sets needed to work remotely, collaborate across continents…