There are a couple of ways to think about resilience.

The one we usually want to fall into is “rebounding back to normal.” After all, “normal” is the comfort zone and usually is our happy place.

The other way is to define resilience as “adapting to a new normal.” In this case, we have to admit that the world moves on, and the old normal may never exist again. Or parts of it might need to change.

Our job, then, is to figure out what the new world is going to look like, and how we need to change to make the best of it.

But it turns out that this opens up a new way of thinking: “create the new normal.”

This puts us in more control of the future, to become more creative about what might happen. Perhaps we can design a new situation which is even better than all the past.

That would be wonderful, right? What would you like to create?