This week I’m proposing a mindset shift of sorts.
We have done a top-notch job implementing risk reducing practices that we of course will want to dutifully maintain with vigilance and evaluate when needed.
It is time now though to move our thinking thoughtfully and carefully forward on how to live with this new virus in our midst with the accompanying risks that cannot be minimized.
Continuing to focus on ways to ratchet things down in an effort to achieve the unattainable bar of complete prevention or avoidance of all risk will exhaust our spirit and tax our precious brain cells.
It takes a lot of energy, not to mention the perpetuation of fear and anxiety, to keep battening down the hatches and fighting for the impossible.
It’s time to deeply consider, courageously and futuristically, about how we will continue to be a provider of goods, services and connection in our communities.
Who will we be for our members and our community as we walk together in a new situation of shared risk and vulnerability?
How will we interact and partner with each other?
What co-ops have to offer to the world has in no way been diminished by events today.
Quite the contrary.
As we shift our mindset, we are in the perfect position to be putting down some of the foundational anchors of our new world – developing the ground floor of the way business will be done in our dear communities.
This is a very auspicious position to be in and I feel not to be taken lightly.
Let’s move our focus and get working on this unique and challenging endeavor.