Contributed by Dr. Gleb Tsipursky, disaster avoidance expert, speaker and author. 

The COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic has changed life as we know it, as well as how we manage our households. While being shut mostly in our homes or observing infection prevention guidelines when leaving our house, it can be pretty hard to grapple with the reality of the world in which we now live. And yet, this is what we must all do to survive and thrive in this new abnormal.

Same home, different house rules?

Susan is an entrepreneur, EO member and current coaching client of mine. She reached out to me for help because her household was having a difficult time adjusting to the long-term impact of our new pandemic reality. As the founder of a 20-person startup in the medical devices industry, she was used to a routine and thrived by keeping her work life separate from her personal life.