If you’re anything like me, you may have an unfortunate tendency to make negative occurrences a bigger deal than they really are.
Something goes wrong and your response is: ‘This day is ruined!’
But does the whole day have to be written off, just because something has gone off track?
Gretchen Rubin doesn’t think so. I love what she says on rebounding from mistakes:
Something goes wrong and your response is: ‘This day is ruined!’
But does the whole day have to be written off, just because something has gone off track?
Gretchen Rubin doesn’t think so. I love what she says on rebounding from mistakes:
Instead of feeling that you’ve blown the day and thinking, “I'll get back on track tomorrow,” try thinking of each day as a set of four quarters: morning, midday, afternoon, evening. If you blow one quarter, you get back on track for the next quarter. Fail small, not big. (Source: Better Than Before)
In other words: Don’t make your mistakes bigger than they need to be!
–Sam
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