My LinkedIn feed is breathtakingly silent on the new war started by Israel and the USA.

Meanwhile, Kansas recently invalidated the legal personhood of transgender people. Fintech company Block laid off nearly half its staff because AI will do their jobs instead. Subsequently, the company got a “buy” recommendation, and the stock soared.

Yet my LinkedIn feed remains business as usual. Personal job updates, stale opinions on leadership, milquetoast equivocations on the future of AI.

This week’s blog post was going to be about midlife recalibration, but when I got up this morning, I…

Look.

Life is hard. The world is complicated. We are all doing our best, day in and day out.

When the world feels on fire and everyone goes about like “this is fine,” it can feel lonely and isolating. Don’t people care? Don’t people understand the significance?

They do, by and large. But life is hard. The world is complicated. And they are all doing their best, day in and day out.

A lot of people are currently going through midlife things, so my original post would not have been meaningless. It wouldn’t have been new information for the world, but it would have helped the people who needed it at the moment they encountered it.

I’ll write that post in the future, I’m sure, but today I could not ignore the reality of the moment.

I personally cannot stop the war. I personally cannot stop bigotry. I personally cannot stop the inevitability of AI advancement and its impact on jobs.

Normally, I focus on continuing my work of being a good human in a helping profession, putting art and positivity and empowerment into the world through my coaching, my books, and my interactions with other humans.

That hasn’t stopped. This morning I had a wonderful call with a fellow coach, focused on how we can better help our clients and build our businesses. Later today I’ll be coaching several clients on what’s going on in their lives and careers. And then I’ll spend some time working on my new novel.

None of that is affected by the war, and it continues to be what I call “plus-one activity” for the world. Do a good thing, even if no one notices, and it’s a plus-one activity.

But I do have to pause and use this space today to say that things are not okay.

So if you need to talk with someone about how you’re feeling right now, or you want to learn how to be a more resilient person, or you are just in need of some calming energy and positivity, please contact me.

And think about picking up RELIT: How to Rekindle Yourself in the Darkness of Compassion Fatigue. Because compassion fatigue is very like what most of us are feeling right now.

That’s why my LinkedIn feed isn’t talking at all about the war.

We’re all just so exhausted by it.

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