In her December 13 “Your Best Next Move” video, Bobbie LaPorte reflects back on 2021 as a year of both progress and setbacks—and shares some wise words from novelist Arundhati Roy that encourage us all to look ahead to 2022 with a possibilities mindset.
Transcript of Your Best Next Move: The Pandemic is a Portal – Closing Out 2021 with a Possibilities Mindset
Hi everyone, Bobbie LaPorte here again with my weekly tip for your Best Next Move – where I help you have more agency in your work, acknowledge your capacity to act and see what you can do right now.
This will be my last vlog post of 2021. Like many of you, I am planning to take a hiatus until after the new year.
It’s been a challenging year. I don’t think many of us thought that in March of 2020 that we’d still be talking about Covid-19 now. But we are.
It’s been a year of progress and setbacks; of relief and continuing anxiety; of hugs and more mask-wearing.
I can’t tell you what will happen tomorrow or next quarter, but I do know that – while we are going to be in this state for some time – it will end.
In the meantime, we need to build our capacity to continue to deal with uncertainty… while also using our personal agency to act where we can, and hold a possibilities mindset for the future.
So as we closing out 2021, I wanted to share this brief passage from essayist Arundhati Roy “The Pandemic is a Portal”, which I hope will guide you into the New Year. She wrote:
“Historically, pandemics have forced humans to break with the past and imagine their world anew. This one is no different. It is a portal, a gateway between one world and the next.
We can choose to walk through it, dragging the carcasses of our prejudice and hatred, our avarice, our data banks and dead ideas, our dead rivers and smoky skies behind us. Or we can walk through lightly, with little luggage, ready to imagine another world. And ready to fight for it.”
I wish and everyone in your life you care about a holiday full of love, good health and a possibilities. And a safe journey through the portal.
Take care of yourselves. I’ll see you in the New Year.