Remember The Things You Did Right!

 There will be days where everything goes to hell in a hand-basket. And it will either because you did something wrong, or despite you correctly doing everything you can control.

Look at what happened. Be honest with yourself. See what needs to be fixed, certainly. But be sure to see what you did right, because you likely did a lot of things right.

Keeping your eyes on your goals, and working your plan will get you there. But life has a way of upsetting the best plans, and the world is changing day by day, hour by hour, even minute by minute. You will need to adjust your plan to match an ever changing environment.

 And sometimes that environment changes incredibly quickly. You will get it wrong sometimes. Remember the lessons and hit it again.

I feel like I'm repeating myself. So, enough of that. 

Now, this is a steal from Dean Ing’s book, Systemic Shock, where a drill instructor is having a voluntold recruit try to disarm him (the DI) in a combat situation in order to get some badly needed gear. The recruit was tricky, and almost ‘died’ in the exercise, but –But in the after action analysis, the DI summed up the exercise by saying:

“Never mind all the things he did wrong, remember everything he did RIGHT!

Yes, You Can!