Even if in the last ten years Bill Gates and many epidemiologists highlighted with unsettling regularity that a pandemic could happen at any moment and that the world was not ready at all for facing it, we can definitely say that most people didn't see it coming.
The virus, the lockdown, the shutdown, the proportions of the spread... What a surprise.
Surprises can get a bad reputation under these circumstances. We could be (even more) afraid of the unknown, puzzled at what's going on and insecure in front of what will happen next.
[A bat-cat? That's a surprise!]
And yet surprises, even bad ones, can hide plenty of future possibilities, new chances, different takes. In the long run, a somehow initially bad surprise can become surprisingly auspicious and the needed driver for real change.
And a good one? A good surprise can make your day or the day of someone important to you. The best part is that it doesn't even have to be something big. Sometimes, a smile is all you need.
Coaching question of the day:
"How can you surprise someone around you in the coming days?"
Tags: Coaching question, Self-coaching, Self-awareness, Self-knowledge, Resilience
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