A surefire way to make a bad situation worse is to continue replaying it in your mind.
The damage is done. The only thing that matters now is making the best choice given your current position.
Next play mentality.
“Don’t plant your bad days. They grow into weeks. The weeks grow into months. Before you know it, you got yourself a bad year. Take it from me - choke those little bad days. Choke ���em down to nothing.”
― Tom Waits
Be forgiving with your past self. What's done is done. No sense in beating yourself up about it.
Be strict with your present self. Win the moment in front of you right now.
Be flexible with your future self. There are many paths to success. You don't need life to be a certain way to live well.
Real pleasure comes from overcoming challenges, feeling confidence in your abilities, gaining fluency in skills, and experiencing the power this brings.
The feeling that we have endless time to complete our work has an insidious and debilitating effect on our minds.
Our attention and thoughts become diffused.
Our lack of intensity makes it hard for the brain to jolt into a higher gear.
The connections do not occur.
For this purpose you must always try to work with deadlines, whether real or manufactured.
Faced with the slenderest amount of time to reach the end, the mind rises to the level you require.
Ideas crowd upon one another.