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The Times, They Are a-Changin...

11/06/2020
They say it takes 21 days to create a habit and 90 days for it to be part of your lifestyle. This got me wondering, now we’ve been in this current situation and approaching this time how many new habits have we created, are we totally new people or did we forget to seize the opportunity and now thinking it’s all too late.

I think like a lot of others I decided to get a daily fix of exercise. I’m not sure how this originally started, my fondness of exercise is up there with my fondness of heathy eating, my desire to ‘share’ my intimate thoughts and my eagerness to chat birds n bees with the kids.

I also took to the daily bowl of porridge which surprised me. I’ve never eaten breakfast except for the detour to Mc D’s the morning after the night before. And I’ve always hated porridge. But here I am every morning, fresh porridge covered in fruit, nuts & yoghurt. I secretly hope this one is a lifestyle as I stopped my daily walks 21 days ago, so I currently have a habit of not exercising anymore.

As we are now working towards bringing staff back to Norseal this has got me wondering what habits the Team have picked up in lockdown and do I need to make accommodations for them. Desk chairs out, soft comfy chairs in? ….you have to be careful re introducing ‘box set arse’ back to a mesh swivel.

In all seriousness I think everyone has been through a life changing experience. Good and bad. I also know apart from health matters I don’t have to change our office environment but for Wellbeing matters ( if you’re into that)? If I want to retain the staff that left Norseal 3 months ago I need to listen to how their life’s have changed, and do we need or want to change to accommodate them. How many of us have made life changing decisions at the drop of a hat? Now multiply that with 3 months of deliberation and I guarantee a percentage of the workforce will desire change if they want to come back to work at all…..Now, what box set for today?

Let’s still be careful out there.

Michael

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