Time to reset my gratitude project 2020! In the midst of whatever is happening, practicing daily gratitude can help you remain calm and handle what comes your way.
Today, to start off my gratitude project 2020, I’m grateful for people who help me understand my emotions better, like this post from HBS about grief by Scott Berinato. I hope you find time today to read this piece about handling emotions that come from loss, and the meaning or wisdom that comes from hardship.
During this crisis, many people are experiencing the feeling that the world as we know it is falling away. This is normal. The loss that comes with that thought can be overwhelming.
It can backfire if you try to push the emotions away or sweep them under the rug as if they don’t exist. Emotions that you don’t deal with can come back later in surprising and usually unpleasant ways. Grief is a fundamental part of the human experience. We all experience it and actually, we learn from it. Often we learn that we have to let go. That’s an essential skill for resilience and moving on. It can even lead to wisdom.
As a wise friend of mine says, the thing about feelings it so feel them. Understanding what you feel and tuning into your emotions, even the difficult ones, helps you process and resolve them.
I can’t explain it better than Scott Berinato and am grateful for his ability to explain how these feelings resolve and lead us to a better place.
I’ll end today with additional thanks to Harvard Business Review for providing free coverage on coronavirus information.