It’s easy to get caught up in the downsides. Reflecting on what could have been, or should have been, but wasn’t.
Doing anything differently requires effort. Conscious, deliberate effort.
Effort to push against the dominant narrative of sensationalist media.
Effort to navigate fear and scarcity-based leadership anecdotes and destructive visions.
And effort to rebalance our own internal mental predisposition to focus on the downside.
The upside of the upside, is that it takes us up!
Try this.
Think of a good thing that happened today.
Write it down.
Now think of what you did that made that happen.
Write that down too.
Rinse, repeat. Three times in total.