What I find myself doing during this time of unprecedented change and disruption is focusing on the things that I can control, and not worrying about anything beyond my control.
It has been said and repeated that this is probably the most unprecedented event in our nation’s history of this kind, rivaling only world wars that have caused this much death. As I go through day-by-day finding unusual times with our organization, family life, and the world in general disrupted, the thing I keep trying to do every day is make small improvements. Whether it’s at home trying to be a better father and spend more time with my kids, or trying to be a more understanding husband, and a better leader in our company.
I try to make a point every day to impact and make improvements anywhere I can. In the past, there was always too much going on and there was no big reset like this that formed my mind and mindset to make small improvements. I have always thought and believed that if you’re not improving every day in some way that you were somehow falling behind. And what I really think you can do to control your own destiny and impact your own life as much as possible during a time like this is focus on any way that you can make a small improvement every day. Because at the end of this, whenever the end of this is, we are all going to be people just trying to survive and get through life as we know it. And that success will depend largely on how much you have improved or gone backward during a time like this.