A – Accept what you can control and dive in knowing you will give your best effort, but aware that you are not always responsible for the outcome. When my daughter was playing in a sectional basketball game in middle school, they were ahead by one point with only a couple of seconds on the clock. Just as the buzzer was about to go off, a girl from the opposing team hurled the ball from half court and miracle of miracles it went in. It was a fluke and even though my daughter’s team had played really well, they lost that game.
Most times the outcome is out of your hands, but you can always celebrate your personal effort because that is all you have control over. Your lists, planning and action are all within your control and that is powerful. If things don’t work out exactly as planned, there may be a lesson in that and opportunity for growth.
Recently, after careful planning and rehearsal, an event did not go as I had hoped, and the next day my daughter just happened to share this quote by the Dalai Lama:
“Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.”
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