It’s so easy to fall into a pit of despair when things aren’t as easy or straightforward as we hoped they’d be.
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But all change doesn’t happen in a straight line!
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So what are you going to make that mean?
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The way you talk to yourself after a setback determines how you recover.
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We have the misguided notion that if we beat ourselves up about it, we won’t do it again. Wrong-o. Instead, it means we won’t want to look closely at where we got off track and won’t be able to make meaningful course corrections.
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So LESS telling yourself something has gone wrong. LESS trying to hate yourself sober or rich or whatever your goal is. MORE compassion and “what can I learn here?”
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Even if you aren’t where you want to be, you’re still further along than when you started. You’re doing this.
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It was never supposed to be simple and linear. Discomfort is the price of admission to a different life.