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Your Most Important Goal

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At the end of every year, we naturally start thinking about the coming new year. We make plans; we set goals.

But after the year we’ve all had in 2020, how do we plan for 2021? So much is still uncertain! Now we know that even the best of plans can be completely derailed by circumstances we cannot control.

Six years ago I wrote the following article about the most important goal we can set. I’m reprising it here, as it is very appropriate for a time of a global pandemic and recurring lockdowns. (Read to the end for a timely epilogue.)

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Coping with COVID-19: Dealing with Internal Struggles

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As these weeks go by, many of us have a growing sense of frustration. It is more than being cooped up at home and dealing with the same people 24/7. Our bandwidth seems non-existent. We are more easily irritated. The words that are coming out of our mouths bring hurt and shame to us as well as others. How can I possibly make it through the next several months in these conditions?

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Coping with COVID-19: Developing Healthy Relationships at Home

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For many of us, being asked to stay at home is stretching our abilities to cope with life. Every human has a limited bandwidth to deal with life’s challenges. Being cooped up at home for a month, to help flatten the curve, raises the floor of our personal bandwidth. Our ability to cope with the challenges of COVID-19 shrinks. New additional challenges emerge: new schedules or lack thereof, loss of income, being around the same people 24/7 or being totally isolated, fear of illness or the potential loss of a loved one, wondering when and if we will get back to normal, just to name a few. How can we deal with these new challenges when we have even less emotional and intellectual energy? Fuses are shorter. Frustrations grow. How do we cope?

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