Interrupted: Coping with Disrupted Plans

In this episode: Eight ways to respond when your life is on hold and plans disrupted. Face the challenge with a perspective shift about delayed plans, uncertain future, and indefinite waiting. 

Postponed. Interrupted. Delayed. Canceled. Uncertain. Indefinite. Hindered. Suspended. Questionable. Undetermined. Words that could give a planner anxiety. Not planner as in someone who plans events, but a person who likes to have an orderly method for life. A planner:

Puts events on calendar far ahead Arranges details using binders, sticky notes, phone reminders, and white boards.

Has a sense of what will be happening for the next two weeks, two months, two years.

Has a FranklinCovey binder and actually writes stuff in it. Reaches deadlines and finishes stuff.

Keeps details and possibilities organized in her brain for months before an occasion.

Imagine the anxiety for anyone who is a planner when life is interrupted. What about when it’s interrupted not only for them but for the whole world? Suddenly all those horrible words are tossed around multiple times per day: Postponed. Interrupted. Delayed. Canceled. Uncertain. Indefinite. Hindered. Suspended. Questionable. Undetermined.

This week, Michelle gives quick tips on how to cope when everything you had scheduled is on hold.

 

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