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Most of us are experiencing a global crisis of «elementary proportions» for the first time. The combination of a health threat, restrictive, legislative measures, and the uncertainty of how the post-Corona world will get back on track is troubling. In sum, it creates an uncertainty where terse things like an empty supermarket shelf or a faltering Internet line in the home office are enough to throw us off track.
While the coaching jargon has been talking about VUCA times (the acronym for volatile, uncertain, complex, ambiguous) for some time now, we’re noticing that all of these adjectives are incredibly accelerated and manifesting in assembled strength.
Unlike the generation of our grandparents or great-grandparents, we are no longer used to having to reinvent ourselves almost daily. We get overwhelmed when we don’t know what to do next. The optimization frenzy of recent years has packed us in absorbent cotton and placed us in a deadening comfort zone.
But how do you deal well with moving targets and erratically changing constraints on action? For the last two decades, everyone has been trying to do the same thing more efficiently. Will the new normal now be change and uncertainty?
I am convinced that this is the case – perhaps not exclusively, but increasingly. And that inevitably leads to the question: How do I manage to find my way in this new world?
When uncertainty and change become the norm, we must focus on that which is always in our control: ourselves! We build security from the inside out.
Phillippa Lally, a health psychologist at University College in London, has shown that it takes an average of 66 days for us to acquire a new habit. So no lifestyle intervention, no three-month diet, not a little digi-detox and then we’re reborn. It’s about establishing positive habits that make us stronger from the inside out: a healthy diet, enough exercise, and thus a balanced and optimally sharp mind.
Have you recently wondered how the Corona crisis is changing your life? How would you like to emerge from this crisis stronger? How do you develop «winning habits»?
Switzerland has now been in lockdown for just under a month – on average, it takes 66 days to bring about relevant behavioral changes. For some it may be 50, for others 100 – one thing is the same for all: everyone starts on day 1
Get it done! I wish you every success and will be happy to assist you in word and deed.
I wish you happy Easter
Dani Hofstetter
