2020 was, obviously, a bit of a curveball. Some of us responded very well to it, rolling with the punches, adapting accordingly, and are coming up on top.

Most of us, however, were reeling from the surprise and many of us are still trying to claw our way through and make sense of the bewilderment and chaos.

I’m quite willing to admit that I’m closer to the latter than the former.

I had made some rather far-forward-looking plans (after a long time of planning and putting the pieces together) and put them into action at the end of 2019, in preparation for a 2020 that would surpass my previous year by leaps and bounds.

The global slowdown was tremendously detrimental to my plans.

It took me a few months before I even came to terms with what was happening. It was only then that I started to take my original plans apart and tried to see where things can be changed.

As of this moment, they still aren’t fully-formed yet. But I'm definitely getting closer to what I sense that I'm meant to do.

I’m not at 100%.

And I think that’s ok.

Some of us take longer to adjust and adapt. The important thing is that we eventually move forward or at least take steps to move forward.

We don’t all have to listen to the ‘motivational gurus’ and make all of our time 'useful and productive'. It’s perfectly alright to take time to recover and piece things together before moving on again.