 Jim Green Something feels different. What the hell is it? You tell me. Fear? Anxiety? Uncertainty? Panic? Loneliness? My neighborhood, your neighborhood; I’m sure they look very similar. Empty parks, empty streets, no kids at school bus stops, vacant campuses, restaurants and stores are all closed and even if we do get out of the house, we find people in masks passing each other, further apart than they ever used to. It’s like we’ve all been placed into a national ‘time out.’ “Go stand in the corner by yourself. Think about your decisions. Think about what matters.” Nothing like a global pandemic to serve as a great big, stinging slap in the face reminder - we do not control what happens. We only control our response. So lets do this. Let’s take on the crisis, reframe things and tell ourselves what we’re really feeling.
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 Jim Green Hey, congratulations.
You have a patch on your uniform, some alphabet soup after your name and certificates in your file. Every shift you roll to the scene in powerful machines that announce ‘help has arrived.’ You have all the acronyms and protocols rehearsed and memorized. On scene, you know how to put one objective in front of another; you can even adapt a little along the way. Maybe you have ‘seen a thing or two’ in the past few years, experience is really piling up. You know how to do the job, you know where to go and you know when to be there. Your career feels like a full cup. Now what? You didn’t come this far... |
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