Got Stuck In The Lift At 6am
This morning I walked down to get my daily coffee because my coffee beens ran out.
I said bye to Kiki, grabbed my coffee and jumped in the elevator to get back up to the apartment.
I hit the 10th floor and started moving up.
*CLUNK*
It stopped at the 9th floor
I hit the 10th floor button again but the neon lights on the lift disappeared and started flashing.
Then the elevator started beeping.
I was stuck FFS.
Just what I needed on my way back to watch a 90min nutrition lecture, crank out some programs, film some exercises at home, do some further editing on ones I had already done last week and make some content.
I hit the emergency button and they told me they'd be 20mins.
I was in the elevator for almost an hour.
For the first 5 mins I was pi$$ed.
Had a huge work day ahead and losing 60mins out of my day was really going to slow me down.
If you know me well there's one thing I hate wasting... time.
And when it's out of my control it's even worse.
So I sat down with my coffee and phone and did what I could do at the time.
Answer e-mails on my phone, answer some questions on insta and post for the morning.
As much as I wanted to sit there and feel angry at the world throwing a spanner in the works, I did what I could.
Which is the only way to keep moving forward.
Do what you can, whenever you can.
If gyms close, workout at home.
If you're eating at a restaurant, get the sauce on the side and stick to foods you know.
If you get injured, sleep and rest as much as you can.
If you lose your job, sell the stuff you don't need around the house while you look for a new one.
Proactivity > reactivity.
You've heard it before: "when you're given lemons, make lemonade".
And that's what life is like now in the midst of a global pandemic.
We are feeling "stuck in the lift" and its forcing us to become one of two people:
1. Someone that does what they can.
2. Someone that does nothing.
So if you're ready to do what you can and make lemonade with the lemons you have been given, let's go.