Nexting

Sometimes you will be happy with your day, your month, your year.

It will be delivering to your expectations. 

Lucky you.

But sometimes you won't.

And what you do in the next moment will define a great deal of who you are and how you are perceived by others.

So how do you react to that fundamental question?

Do you even know how you react?

Do you recognise your own mantras and your own self tortures?

Because if you don't, you haven't asked the question yet. And I'm getting you a little early.

I'm suggesting answers.

Except I'm not.

I am offering you mine. Take it. Leave it. It's your choice.

And it's only mine "at the moment", because when I'm bored with it, when response fatigue sets in, I will have to switch it out for something else.

So that all those moments when I don't deliver or reach my potential, when I have underperformed by my own judgement...

I ask myself that question.

What am I going to do now?

I don't suggest you borrow my answer because it's pejorative.

But I can be pejorative to myself without recommending it to you.

And it is pleasingly, mercifully brief. 

What on earth am I going to do now?

Better.

I'm going to do better.