Phases and Expectations

Phases and Changing Expectations

As we are at the beginning of businesses re-opening, it is important to reframe our expectations.

I work at home alone 95% of the time. I have done this since opening my own business. I am also an extremely social being. I get energy from speaking to clients and large crowds, but I also fill my tank by simply chatting with the computer guys at Staples or the barista at Starbucks. Heck, I often work there just to be around other people!

If I hoped to experience this phase of reopening as going back to 'normal', or made judgments about how it would look in the future, I would be overwhelmingly disappointed. 

Is this because business is failing me? No. 
Is this because my needs are not (yet) being met? Yes. 

As businesses, parks, and public spaces in Canada begin to re-open, consider staging your expectations. You will be able to chat away to the grocery clerk again. You will be able to enjoy a visit to the bustling fair or meander at a book store one warm summer morning, sipping coffee and rushing nowhere. Just not yet, or at least now how you remember.

If we can give ourselves and businesses some space and time, we will be pointing ourselves in the direction of future happiness, and not trying to rewind to the past. 


We can do this. 

Time. Space. Patience.