March is always beautiful and considered “high season” where I live in the Desert Southwest.  This last week it was strangely quiet.  Schools are closed, traffic is a trickle, and most restaurants are closed.  About the only businesses seeing a crowd are the grocery stores with people looking dismally at mostly empty shelves.  Surely we are living in an unprecedented time?  Perhaps our parents or grandparents who lived through the last world war recognize the sense of uncertainty that comes when something jolts our sense of safety and understanding about how the world is supposed to work.  But most of us weren’t alive then and this is our first introduction to such uncertainty.  Thankfully, most of us, like most of them, will get through this crisis with the right amount of care and responsible action. But in the meantime, it is SMART to remember that our how we respond to this experience is up to us. It’s also important to remember we are all in this together.  In this, our third SMART Living 365 Vlog, Thom and I share several ideas we hope to implement in the days to come in order to sooth any anxiety or fear lurking inside. We hope you find them helpful as well.  And if you have any tips for getting through these times as calmly, compassionately and peacefully as possible, please share them in the comments below.

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