A Few Lessons I Have Learned Since Monday, March 16th

Bilingual (English/French) Call Center Management Professional who takes the game to the next level.

With time to slow down and reflect, in no particular order, this is what I have learned, and observed, during the past 2 weeks:

1. Health care professionals are worth more… much more… than athletes, artists, celebrities, business leaders, or politicians.
2. We tend to only value something when it may be or is lost.
3. Oil is worthless in a world without consumption.
4. In the west, we are witnessing an experiment in social responsibility versus personal entitlement. Unfortunately, but not surprising, entitlement is winning.
5. To a small extent, how animals feel in a cage.
6. We can live without going out to restaurants, shopping, attending concerts, etc. We waste a lot of our income.
7. Our planet regenerates quickly without humans into play.
8. A large percentage of the workforce can work from home.
9. Regardless of their socioeconomic position, when prices are rising, human beings are opportunistic.
10. Living a hygienic life is not difficult.
11. No priest, rabbi, high priestess, guru, psychic, pujaris, tribal leader, member of the British monarchy, has saved a patient.
12. This is what mind control looks like.
13. We are not as educated as we like to think we are.
14. We are not as socially conscious as we claim we are.
15. We all need a new lifestyle that acknowledges our income is precarious (A job only exists if there’s a need for it to exist.), that a “steady paycheck” is an oxymoron and that living paycheck-to-paycheck is not a financial strategy. We cannot afford to buy everything forever.
16. Mainstream media is in the business of creating collective angst, so you become addicted to the news (viewers = advertising revenue, which is a news outlet’s lifeblood).
17. Many expect the government to look after them, to be responsible for their life choices.
18. The economy is dictated more by intangibles like optimism and fear, than tangibles like supply and demand.
19. Mother Nature is telling us something. (This may be our wake up call.)
20. Many of our relationships suck our energy, provide little value and use up time we could be spending with those whom we should be spending time with.
21. There are a lot of good people in the world.
22. You don’t need the government to tell you to do what’s right for the collective social good.

What have you learned?

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