It’s worth a nickel
My good friend Jay pointed me to this blog called zenhabits a while ago, and I absolutely love this post because it’s so true. How do you go with the flow, and keep yourself from losing control? In 12 steps, of course!
My favorite one is #4 … “get perspective.”
This is almost always my problem, in that I overreact (no way, really? me? overreact?) to things that are really not that big a deal.
Leo writes, “A week from now, a year from now, this little incident won’t matter a single whit.” Ha! Most of the stuff I go nuts about won’t matter ten minutes from now.
So, I need to learn to zoom out. We’ll all be happier!
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I swear this is what I learned through my mistakes – without reading some poo about it. I want to say this is exactly what I was trying to say at dinner with you guys, but that sounds like patting myself on the back. It’s amazing how much we let affect us when it NEVER effects the other in the same way.. or at all. Anyway, I now treat difficult people like cartoons. It’s so much better, and just like being on crack.