Slowly, a day at a time, it’s been happening. The old complacency we had is being replaced by a new one. Turns out inaction still breeds inaction. I was thinking just yesterday of all the great new habits I’d developed during the corn teen. Well, I thought about the ones I could have developed, alas, it turns out I’m still the same old PF. 

I’m not being hard on myself. Unknowns beget unknowns. I mean I had 49 days to become a world class graffiti artist but it turns out that maybe another one of those wasn’t needed. I’d hate to infringe on someone else’s real estate. Instead I got better at drinking beer and gained 7 lbs. 

It feels like we are hovering in no mans land. We’ve realized that a tremendous amount of energy was put into “virtual everything” that was likely time wasted. We (I) are also starting to see that carry out food, while a kind gesture is no business model to switch to on the fly when people have plenty of time and food to cook. 

Finally we have learned that we aren’t really good at being inconvenienced. I feel like we didn’t learn much this past 7-8 weeks and that the gains of stopping everything can be undone in a weekend of “back to normal”. 

Maybe after 20 years of self employment I just liked to not work like a dog for a bit. 

I’m the self proclaimed king of telling you to reinvent, but over here the inventions aren’t coming fast and furious. It’s been said that entrepreneurs think of the things society needs before they know they need them. iPhones, shake weights, the Foreve Lazy, you know, innovation. It looks like I missed this go at thinking up some new stuff, because the pain to do so hasn’t arrived in full yet. It’s coming though. Of that I’m sure. 

So I sit with a blank pad and nothing comes. “Necessity being the mother of invention,” just another thing we say when we want to pump ourselves up. 

The good news is I think I’m patient. I mean I’m completely impatient, but I am willing to wait because I have no other options and despite my reporting of the contrary, my businesses depend on others. They depend on you, and right now, you don’t know any more than I do. 

So today I’ll limp along and keep thinking about my lost graffiti art opportunity, and try to be patient. 

Because necessity is coming. 

#hugsandhi5s