This content was created by Cynthia Fortlage. This content was uploaded by Cynthia Fortlage. This is a YouTube video titled "Scheduling In an Era of Covid-19" (published 2020-07-03). It is a short, solo reflective piece by Cynthia in which she describes the "maximized mind" concept, recounts how the COVID-19 lockdown cleared her calendar and left her feeling disoriented, and discusses accepting the changed routine and using downtime for organization, clarity of thought, self-growth, and self-care. The clip ends with a Spanish sign-off ("Con amor y abrazos. De Colombia").
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Hey, Cynthia here. Um, I wanted to talk in today's short video, talk about something I was taught many, many years ago, and it was about a maximized mind. And the whole concept, while there was 5 elements of a maximized life, One was a maximized mind. And it's really about the importance of getting yourself organized and having space for clarity of thought. And I wanted to share with you a story. It's a lockdown story. And what I found happened, and if you live by your calendar as I had been, maybe this happened to you. But in the first week of the lockdown and of countries and places going quiet, my calendar became clear. And I was lost. I was frantic. How did I know what to do, when to do it? And I must say that I felt rather disoriented through the process. It took me a while to adapt, to accept that life as I knew it, as the schedule knew it, wasn't the same. It changed. But even that requires a level of acceptance to be able to accept that the world has changed and there's nothing that I can do about it except accept it. And when I started to do that, I started to make room for my own self-growth, my own self-care. And that was really one of the first obvious gifts that this downtime because of COVID and lockdown brought us, was to accept that gift. Thanks for watching. Con amor y abrazos. De Colombia. Bye.
