5 Strategies to Help You Build Resilience in Uncertain Times By Anne Grady
When I was 9, I got a gerbil named Penelope. At first, she was adorable, running on the wheel in her cage for hours. After a week, the novelty wore off. She ate and ran on the wheel. She slept and ran on the wheel. You get the picture. That little gerbil got her steps in every day, but she went absolutely nowhere. Somewhere along the line, I became Penelope. It seemed like I was always running, and I was always busy, but I was getting nowhere. Before the outbreak of COVID-19, I saw so many people struggling with the Penelope Syndrome. We would wake up, check our phones, go to work, check our phones, react our way through the insanity that is our inbox, check our phones, stay busy, check our phones, sleep, and do it all over again. Some days were great, some days were crappy, and most were somewhere in between. But were we getting anywhere, or just running in circles? It’s easy to get carried away by being busy, reacting through life and not achieving what is most important to y