# One Year Ago Today: I Spent 2 Hours in Shock. Then, I Started to Reinvent. Did You?
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And so there it is! One year ago today, it was clear that my universe was shifting - my keynote life on stage in Las Vegas and elsewhere was coming to an end for quite some time, and that I had to reinvent FAST! Facebook and Cisco had just announced the cancellation of their annual users' conferences - the reality of the collapse of the meeting industry was clear. I'd been watching the signs already for a month - this was confirmation. I remember that I grieved for about two hours that day - and then decided I had to move to the 'Acceptance' stage of the 7 Stages of Economic Grief. I already had a green wall for the pre-event videos I was filming and producing with my overseas producer - and yet, on that very day, announced that I was ready to do virtual - because I was! I even announced to the world that I was ready in a blog post - even before other people knew that the old world was over for a time! It's kind of fun to read one year later. https://jimcarroll.com/2020/02/covad-19-moving-meetings-online-im-ready-to-go-are-you/ Read the post. Look at my attitude. NO REGRETS!  

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Source: https://jimcarroll.com/2021/03/one-year-ago-today-i-spent-2-hours-in-shock-then-i-started-to-reinvent-did-you/