Category: DWC-19
[DWC-19] Write 1,000 words a day
Write 1,000 words a day.
Before you watch another “news update” or have “a quick look on Facebook”…write 1,000 words on something that matters to you.
Mass and social media’s goal of trading your attention for advertiser money hasn’t changed just because of the COVID-19 climate.
In fact, this goal has been heightened via the perfect government-backed hook of getting you to pay attention for as long as there’s a crisis.
So the simple idea is to commit to writing 1,000 words on something that matters to you before checking in with the day’s COVID-19 broadcasts.
Write 1,000 words (or 100 or 50).
Record and upload a new video.
Teach someone something you’ve learned.
Take a class to level up your skills.
Do something that gives your dreams a chance to live before tuning into those trying to convince you to put your dreams on hold.
Write 1,000 words.
Simple to do, as well as simple to not do.
Write 1,000 words before you do anything else.
Image: Hugh MacLeod
[DWC-19] Dancing with COVID-19
Decades from now, historians will write about this paradigm shift that we’re living through called COVID-19.
Global pandemic.
Self-quarantine.
Social distancing.
Global air travel cancelled.
No mass gatherings at churches, mosques, weddings or funerals.
All schools and Universities shut down.
Unprecedented times.
Depending on who you listen to, this is either a storm to be weathered or the end of the world as we know it.
But in between weathering COVID-19 and fearing COVID-19, there is a nuanced opportunity to dance with COVID-19.
Dance.
To move with rhythm, grace, energy, daring and joy in response to the groove of the music which is COVID-19.
Dance.
Even if the virus were to be completely eradicated today, our way of life has been completely altered forever.
And in embracing the new reality we’re in, you have the amazing gift of discovering a new world with new ways to reinvent yourself, transform your circumstances…to live, long and prosper.
This opportunity won’t last forever.
Eventually the music will stop playing and the dance will become the status quo.
But while it’s still playing, this series of posts called DWC-19, is an attempt to provoke us to dance while others are keeping their head down and panicking.