Out and About STYLE Mag Issue 3 Vol. 2

FOR THE CULTURE
The Reinvented Chronicles with
Yvonne C Mtengwa
Transforming your Mindset in a Global Crisis
Nothing prepares the world for what we are
experiencing now. No one imagined that their first
quarter of the year would end with offices being
moved to homes and schooling for children taking
place on dining room tables, yet here we are today.
The authorities are advising us to look at different
ways to become as efficient as we possibly can
while practising social distancing to stay healthy.
It took me a few days to realise that juggling client
work while teaching my children how to convert
millimetres to centimetres and explaining what
cross-pollination was, needed me to be more
flexible and useful, as we all do the #stayhome
more than we’ve ever done in a long while. For
some, this time gave us a shocking revelation that
we were not prepared for all the uncertainty during
this pandemic.
Some have been asked to take unpaid leave or
a salary cut; some have been laid off completely,
others are trying to figure out what their next step
is and so on. Too many questions, so much we are
all unsure of, yet what is clear is this; we have all
been forced to press another reset button.
The good news though is that there’s life after
this crisis, which is why now is as a good a time to
think, adjust and plan things ahead.
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