"Long-range goals keep you from being
frustrated by short-term failures."
- James Cash Penney
2 back...sounds like a Cha-Cha to me. Many problems seem to reappear over and over and over....sometimes they never go away in the first place. If I focus on just the one problem, I feel discouraged and out of sorts. Humans don't deal with one problem at a time. A whole slew of things bombard us every day. Waking up is the first challenge. Feet hitting the ground and pain is there. Open the bottle of medication, a daily reminder of yet another problem. Then head for the kitchen for more decisions and challenges if trying to loose weight. I can make 100 good choices in a day then focus on one mistake. Agonize over that one thing until all the good choices fade while focusing on one issue. Sometimes this is important. When I worked as a computer tech this ability to hyper-focus on one issue is a real asset; however, for living day to day I can get bogged down and feel frustrated that I am not making progress because I am focused on one problem. I don't get an F for the day with one error. Reviewing long range goals I keep myself headed in the right direction. I might zig and zag or have set backs but I can keep progressing in the general direction I want to go. My friend mulderfan reminds me "Progress not perfection."
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