202: Andrea Simon—Now Is No Time To Be Afraid Of This Blurry Future

<p style="text-align: center;"><span style= "font-size: 24px;"><strong>Learn how to reinvent your reality and embrace change</strong></span></p> <p>As we work with our clients during this pandemic, we're noticing a recurring theme. They've figured out how to deal with living at home, working at home and being at home. But now they're beginning to be anxious about what's coming next. It's strange, isn't it, that without a clear vision of the future, it's very hard to live today<span style="background-color: #ffffff;">. In this podcast, I talk</span> <span style="background-color: #ffff04;"><span style= "background-color: #ffffff;">about these feelings that so many of us are having, and how this crisis is an excellent time for you to innovate, reinvent your reality, and start doing the things you've been trying to do for a long time. Please listen, learn and share.</span><img class="mce-hs-more" style= "height: 20px !important;" src= "data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" data-mce-placeholder="" /></span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 20px;"><strong><span style= "background-color: #ffffff;"><img style= "width: 115px; float: left; margin: 7px 18px 0px 0px;" src= "https://cdn2.hubspot.net/hubfs/398462/Andi%20head%20shot.png" alt= "Andi head shot" width="115" />What is "what's next" going to look like?</span></strong></span></p> <p>What I'm calling the "blurry future" is unsettling to us. These are ambiguous times, and h<span style= "background-color: transparent;">umans hate ambiguity</span><span style="background-color: transparent;">. We hate to be between a black box and a white box in that grey space where we are uncertain what is good or bad, right or wrong. Today's ambiguity and constant changes are creating all kinds of stress. The pain of change is, quite simply, painful.</span></p> <p><span style="background-color: #ffffff;">Martin Seligman's excellent book, <em>"<a href= "https://www.amazon.com/Homo-Prospectus-Martin-P-Seligman/dp/0199374473" target="_blank" rel="n