Mindset

Good Afternoon fellow blog readers! As always, I hope you’re staying healthy and happy along with your loved ones. Last week, I wrote to you all about a few tips on how to keep “sane” during these hard times because unfortunately, this is an entire lifestyle change for the majority of us.

That being said, it is incredibly easy to adapt a negative mindset and not know how to get out of it. I have learned a lot throughout the past few weeks of quarantine and although this blog is technically about Event Management and career choices etc. I think having a blog and a community who reads it, is too great of an opportunity to not shed my personal experiences and tips throughout such a unique situation as this, COVID-19.

I am an incredibly passionate person. There are many situations and meanings to that word and how it applies to me but right now, I am referring to my passion in the area of excitement and looking forward to things. I get VERY excited about things to come in the future. So much to a fault, a fault that I have become very well aware of throughout this quarantine period.

I had numerous things that I had been incredibly excited for throughout the months of March, April and May that have since been cancelled due to the virus.

These things include my 21st birthday, my first event that would’ve been held a few weeks ago and a few other things. Having these things so negatively affected by the virus after being so profusely excited for them… I felt an enormous sense of depression in a way.

The highest of hopes, crashing down, left me in a state of utter sadness. This forced me to learn how to not only recover my mentality and pick myself up but to also brace myself for future occurrences such as this.

What I mean by that is it made me recognize that it is okay to be excited and to have high hopes, but that I also need to remind myself that everything will be okay if things don’t workout as planned. Brace yourself, but don’t lose your passion.

I have found that in the midst of all these exciting things that were affected negatively, I had to find new things to look forward to because it gave the sense of hope. It also gave me the opportunity to train myself to not be so negatively impacted if things fall through.

This is just an experience I have noted throughout this crazy lifestyle change we are all living right now. While I obviously know many of you can’t relate to the mentality issues I have been struggling with, I thought it could open up ideas or even just personal conversation in all of you on how to defeat the mental battles you may be dealing with.

As always, stay safe stay healthy and stay inside.