Feeling disappointed right now? Try THIS. | Mel Robbins
What I want to talk to you about today is disappointment.
Disappointment is something that I think every single human being
on the planet is feeling right now.
And I want to start us off with a quote from Anne Lamont.
Expectation is resentment waiting to happen.
I know that there are so many expectations
that you had about what you would be doing right now.
What would you be doing this week?
What you would be doing this month?
That's not happening because of this global pandemic.
You know, we are going through a moment that none of us
have ever experienced before, so nobody knows what the hell they're doing.
Right. We're just doing the best that we can.
You got to give yourself permission to feel it,
because if you don't own what you're feeling
and if you don't give yourself the space to move through it,
it's going to eat you alive and it's going to cause you to act out.
The number one thing that helps you with disappointment,
once you name it, once you feel it, is reminding yourself
that better days are coming.
Pick a day out in the future.
I want you to think about something that you would love to do
once the pandemic is over
and all of this chaos has left us behind.
Where do you want to go?
What is the thing you most look forward to doing?
So the thing I am most looking forward to doing is I am most looking forward
to going back home where I grew up to western Michigan
and walking across those sand dunes and walking across the sand.
I know that I am in better days.
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