While some may believe otherwise, none of us have total control over events in our lives. While you can heavily slant the odds in your favor, there is nothing you can do to guarantee that you’ll have a good harvest.
But there’s a lot of things you can do to guarantee that you won’t.
For what it’s worth, the day is less gloomy today and so am I, so here’s a more “neutral” thought for today:
When did I get so bad at goofing off? I used to be really, really good at it!
The other day I read that search and rescue dogs have been known to become depressed when they fail to find people even if there are no people to find and their “failure” is no fault of theirs.
Somehow the world made a little more sense to me after learning that.
My dad encouraged us to fail. Growing up, he would ask us what we failed at that week. If we didn’t have something, he would be disappointed. It changed my mindset at an early age that failure is not the outcome, failure is not trying. Don’t be afraid to fail.
When you’re presenting people with a list of reasons why you didn’t succeed at something, you should probably include at least one thing that you could have done differently that would have made a difference.
