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First Time Recovering from a Pandemic? It Might Be Time for a Reset

First Time Recovering From a Pandemic? It Might Be Time for a Reset, by Blair Glaser. Photograph of tree in barren landscape by Elias Maurer
Photograph by Elias Maurer

Estimated reading time: 6 minutes

Strategies and solutions for a post-pandemic world and a reminder that it’s OK to not know what to do

One Monday morning last April I awoke with a deep ache in my bones. The week before, I’d encountered two unexpected losses in my leadership and organizational consulting business: I was hired for a retreat I intrinsically knew I wasn’t right for, and it didn’t go well. Another client was going through a merger and their coaching budget was slashed. And then two contracts had successfully come to an end. I was bereft.

But there was something else. Having been a healing/educational entrepreneur since 1998, I’m used to setbacks and cycles in my business. I could sense there was

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