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The door of our local pharmacy, a couple of days after the COVID-19 health emergency was declared in March 2020. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Journal entries from March 12 and 13, 2020, remembering the first days of lock down and the day that the world changed. I started keeping a decisions journal to track the things I was doing and why. Here are the first two days of entries. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

March 12, 2020 Newxlelexwm Bowen Island.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cancellations. Of everything.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

First coaching call with a client about how to bring their events online. Systems awareness helps us to bring our capacities on line.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Me. Feeling generally well. Slight dry cough, small sniffle. I am acting now as if I have COVID-19 and trying to be publically minded.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

World is a swirling system of ephemeral attractors. Nothing has deepened yet. Seems like the potential is very open. Hoping it stays that way for a while. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

March 13, 2020 Nexwlelexwm Bowen Island <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Scenario planning helped me get ahead of travel decisions informed by reliable information with weak signals, incorporating all that into plausible decision making.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dr. Hayley Wickenheiser: “control what you can, let go of what you can’t.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pattern entrainment: noticed that I kind of treated this like a storm – it will pass; do I just ride it out? Watching friends abroad thinking this way. But clinging to the possibility that things might shift in good ways.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Imposing constraints: acting as if you have it, changes behaviours. Found that way to make me more publically-minded.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There is grief. Small losses of timelines we have to let go of. There will be more grief coming.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Watching the application of constraints. Adopt good heuristics or external constraints with force action.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Adaptive action is a “choose your own adventure.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Think broadly. Don’t do things that might require a hospital visit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Symptoms chart is useful for monitoring self. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Seriousness from stories of sports leagues being cancelled.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Flattening the curve becomes the key way to think about it – wait as long as you can to get sick. Avoid crowds, wash hands, social distance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Today – beauty – Italians singing, poems. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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