Improving in Isolation: What have you told yourself to do, but haven’t?

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There’s a shift happening and I feel it deeply. It’s the shift to personal betterment, defined in whatever that phrase means to you.

If you just think back to a couple of weeks ago when we first entered self-isolation mode, we made the adjustment to working from home and experienced everything in life from a virtual sense. If you’re like me and have level set with your new work-life balance, this current moment in time represents a golden opportunity to dig a bit deeper into developing your personal best.

In the loss of your previous structured life and schedule, your core values will surface. I know for myself, I can finally hear myself think again. In a LinkedIn live chat between Dorie Clark and Jenny Blake, I resonated with this sentence: “This time that we’re given is an opportunity for us to say no to things, but even more importantly, things to say yes to” (or vice versa).

What are the things you have always wanted to do, but convinced yourself that you didn’t have time for? What have you been looking forward to doing? Or felt like you “should do” but haven’t?

Recognize that we’ve never been given an opportunity such as this to slow down, reassess, and even adjust.

If you’re looking for some ideas, here are some categories to help!

Feel free to choose one or more of the following themes; make sure you choose something of importance to you. I need to stress that you don’t have everything figured out right this second. But know that choosing to prioritize your goals is absolutely a step forward in self-betterment.  

  1. Personal Development

  2. Professional / Income Producing

  3. Interpersonal / Relationship

  4. Health & Fitness

  5. New Skill / Hobby

So again, I ask you to ask yourself. When you look into yourself, what have you been telling yourself to do, but haven’t? 

Blog post by Vivian Liu. Vivian is YWiB Vancouver’s VP Connections. Right now, she is undoubtedly self-isolating at home using window markers to write her daily to-dos on her apartment windows (highly