Shoot!

Just wrote a blog that seemed to have vanished into the internet vortex!

I used my mindfulness and acceptance skills to overcome this disappointment. Truth is, disappointments happen to all of us and how we handle and regulate our emotions after the fact, determines whether we will have a truly horrible day and miserable life OR experience disappointment, then move on.

In my case, I had spent nearly an hour writing and referencing and attaching a youtube video to a blog post. As I was about to press "publish", the post simply disappeared. Has this happened to anyone else? Has something similar happened to you?

After the fact, I could have allowed my mind to spin into victim-hood, catastrophic thinking, black or white thinking, all or nothing thinking ("poor me", "this ALWAYS happens to me", "all my hard work down the drain", "why did this happen to me"? etc). Instead, I shrugged, laughed, took a break and accepted that these things just happen. Mindfulness skill redirected my attention to how I feel at the present moment until I was ready to move on.

Reality is, life has hurdles and set backs. Reality is, how we perceive the glitches (our "self talk") will determine whether we are happy or just "eh" or truly unhappy in life.

What do you SAY to yourself after you experience disappointment? Please share!