Car broke down, so you took two buses. Nobody gives trophies for that, but they should.

RESILIENCE

WHAT THIS MEANS

Most of the difficult things people do go completely unrecorded. Getting somewhere after the plan collapsed, leaving an hour earlier, standing in the cold, arriving anyway; none of it appears anywhere and nobody claps. It is still the behavior separating people who get things done from people who intended to. Lack of recognition does not change what it took.

Count it yourself, since nobody else is keeping that record. Note what you got through this week that nobody saw. Your sense of what you can handle should be built from that rather than from applause.

A QUESTION TO SIT WITH

How did you get there when everything made it harder?

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