Research has shown there are 3 character strengths getting us all through the pandemic. It also shows that our personalities have changed. How are you faring?
If I didn't believe that people could change the way they behave in the world I wouldn't be doing the work I'm doing!
During the pandemic I have become lazier, loving to shop online, (I am now an apprentice agoraphobic,) and realising I must have wasted years of my life pushing wonky, squeaking trolleys round supermarkets. but have increased my love of learning by attending loads more zoom webinars, and embracing this technology also for client sessions and delivering courses for my students.
I have a heightened awareness of how lucky I am: I shared lockdown with my wonderful and never boring husband and this gave me time to reinforce my feelings of gratitude for having loved him for over 50 years (We met in September 1970;) We both enjoy good health; Our mortgage was paid many years ago, and our pensions are regularly received; I love the work I do and the clients with whom I do it; Lovely circles of friends - that includes you, dearest Louise - with whom to laugh and access support if needed; We were young in the 60s - a great time of optimism & creativity; We have travelled around the world and satisfied our wanderlust.
Although as context there is the dark cloud of the pandemic, with its attendant griefs and losses, and the frustrations engendered by the idiocy of Brexit, I am certain that the emotions of love and gratitude, and the comfortable feeling of financial security, have carried us through so far.
If I didn't believe that people could change the way they behave in the world I wouldn't be doing the work I'm doing!
During the pandemic I have become lazier, loving to shop online, (I am now an apprentice agoraphobic,) and realising I must have wasted years of my life pushing wonky, squeaking trolleys round supermarkets. but have increased my love of learning by attending loads more zoom webinars, and embracing this technology also for client sessions and delivering courses for my students.
I have a heightened awareness of how lucky I am: I shared lockdown with my wonderful and never boring husband and this gave me time to reinforce my feelings of gratitude for having loved him for over 50 years (We met in September 1970;) We both enjoy good health; Our mortgage was paid many years ago, and our pensions are regularly received; I love the work I do and the clients with whom I do it; Lovely circles of friends - that includes you, dearest Louise - with whom to laugh and access support if needed; We were young in the 60s - a great time of optimism & creativity; We have travelled around the world and satisfied our wanderlust.
Although as context there is the dark cloud of the pandemic, with its attendant griefs and losses, and the frustrations engendered by the idiocy of Brexit, I am certain that the emotions of love and gratitude, and the comfortable feeling of financial security, have carried us through so far.