Quarantine Time: You’ll Never Have A Better Chance to Better Yourself

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For many Americans, this is a trying time, and for good reason — we are in the midst of a generation pandemic, likely to be the worst in a century. Millions are out of work, and with state unemployment sites well over capacity, it can be hard to feel good about things.

Let me offer a little shelter from the storm.

Ignore the root cause for a moment; what we are experiencing is nothing short than the greatest opportunity you have to better yourself in your lifetime. Almost for certain. That’s absurd, to know something like that in the present moment.

With the gears of capitalism grinding to a halt, many of us have been relieved of the majority of our duties and obligations, for better or for worse. I challenge you to commit to ensuring you fall on to the “better” side of that equation.

COVID-19 seems to have warped the very fabric of time. (Image Credit: noor Younis/Unsplash)

Most of us don’t do what we love for a living, that’s a sad reality. Sadder still, most of us work to work, sometimes more than one job, so the culture of personal growth and development feels like a distant land for the privileged. But if you’re out of work right now, you’ve probably found that you are…