Missing your exit adds ten minutes, not ten years. Quit acting like one wrong turn ruined the whole road trip.

One mistake tends to get priced as though it were permanent. A wrong turn costs you the correction and nothing else, but in the moment it arrives with a story about wasted time and ruined plans that is wildly out of proportion to the actual delay. The frustration lasts longer than the setback does.

When something goes wrong this week, ask what it genuinely costs in hours or dollars. Say the real number. Then fix it and carry on, without the extra tax you were about to pay in mood.