Did ever try something new? Something that makes you uncomfortable at first but then, when time progresses, you found yourself in a happy place? Where you discovered that you were able to do more, create more than you thought you could? Probably you did, like me when I started coaching in Kenya. You surpassed the boundaries and limitations of your own mind and moved on to a better space.

This pandemic gives us time to reflect. But also time to work on something new, something that you’ve never done before. To redesign your life based on new parameters, with or without a coach. Maybe working from home gives you the flexibility you need, apart of course for the ones, like me, who are stuck at home schooling your kids... But nonetheless, get out on your balcony, go to a park or a forest nearby and reflect.

A helpful strategy for this is design thinking where, to cut a long story short, you’ll get curious, you talk to people and then try stuff. So why don’t you use this strategy to find that one thing you always wanted to do and make time for it? Ricardo Semler (2016) calls this his “terminal day”. That day of the week where he does stuff that he would if he new he had only six months to live. So find the mental space and try different stuff and maybe, in a few years time, you’ll look back on 2021 with a smile on your face.