MY COVID REACTION.
No, I’m not talking about symptoms of the virus. I’m talking about the psychological reaction I had in response to the whole world shutting down in minutes.
Firstly, have you thought about the fact that we all had a reaction? Maybe still in that reaction? Also when shock is involved in any scenario we need to allow ourselves a first reaction AND a second reaction…and a third and a forth. It’s ok that how you feel changes, it’s allowed to change.
I am one of the extremely lucky ones. Not only is our biz still able to function, albeit a little slowly, but our government has seriously looked after us. I don’t know if I’ve ever been more proud and grateful to live in Australia.
So my reaction was not typical…
When the world started shutting it’s doors and fear of what this pandemic might do to us rose like Narrabeen waves in a storm, my reaction was a strong and compelling need to make people laugh.
Everything within me needed to make everyone within earshot feel better by looking like a complete dork.
How did this look? It started with a tripod so I could film myself doing silly things around the house. And kinda got a bit out of control…
I want to be honest about my secondary reaction for a moment…it was tough. Silliness started to fade and what I would describe as stress set in. I felt the need to stay busy, just doing things and doing things and unable to rest. I even started grinding my teeth in my sleep. It took a fair bit of work to get through this stage, my love Kristian was incredible.
My third reaction, was a little more practical and less immediate. It was a considered decision to bring our Make + Shoot workshops…online. These workshops are SO loved. It always surprises me how many requests I get to come to Melbourne or the Gold Coast or Orange (randomly!) to run the workshop. It’s extremely rewarding to see how much this workshop helps actually helps people.
However the job of actually getting an entire workshop experience online looked a little bigger than making silly films to cheer people up. In fact a lot bigger. In fact it was a marathon, up a mountain…wearing a sumo suit.
But here we are…about to make it all live in THREE DAYS. Truly hoping that it will help some people in this time.
Life right now is tough, it’s slow, it’s up hill. But isn’t that true of all growth? If this workshop can encourage small biz owners / start ups / passion projects in their growing, I will be truly happy.
Because we need them now more than ever.