“If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster and
treat those two impostors just the same; […]
yours is the Earth and
everything that's in it, And - which is more - you'll be a Man, my son!”
Keep your attention on what you want and keep moving forward.
Do you
remember the saying, “In 6 months we are going to laugh about it!”?
Why not
laugh already now?
This phrase actually got me through my International
Business studies. I remember many nights before the exams at 3 a.m. – a few
hours before the exam – when I was totally totally stressed out in the dorm room
of my friend Jorge and on the verge of a breakdown (failing those exams would
have meant dropping out of college or worse still… be thrown out..) and he
always just laughed and said,
“Marc, in 6 months we are going to laugh about
tonight!”
We actually even now - 20 years later - still laugh about those stories.
Try this technique! I hope it helps you as it helped me!
Action Steps:
1. Think back on other hard times in your life and how you got out of it and
maybe even found something positive in it after some time.
MAPPING LIFE:
1. Make a timeline of your life. From birth until now. Mark every key event
in your life on the line. All and any moments that changed your life.
2. Write the great moments, the successes above the timeline.
3. Write the challenges, the tragedies, the failures below the timeline.
4. Examine the events below the line and write the positive effects of them
above the line.
(For example, somebody close to you died. A positive could be that you
value your life more. Or perhaps you got fired from a job. This opened
doors to an even better job that you have now.)
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