This last week I’ve had the opportunity to have conversations with many people across various industries. Some were very optimistic about the future. Some were very pessimistic about our current time as well as the future.

What I find interesting is that what our current environment has done is given us new meanings. New meanings for how we spend our time as well as whom we spend our time. New meanings for where we spend our money and what we spend our money on. New meanings for the relationships we have in our lives as well as whom we have in our lives.

Several people talked about getting back to normal. From my seat on the bus---THIS is the new normal. Each environmental cycle brings a new normal for us. The sooner we embrace this shift, the sooner we can work on sharpening our resiliency saw and create our own reality