Pivoting, reinventing, revisiting… rinse and repeat

“Pivoting” is one of those buzzwords you hear a lot lately, along with “new normal,” “reinventing” and “intentional”. They start to mean less the more you hear them, to the point that my partner and I snarkily joke how “intentional” we’re going to be about various things, like laundry or picking up the dog poop in the yard. I actually very much believe in the power of intentions and, I guess, being “intentional,” but it’s become jargon and that renders it somewhat empty.

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