Resilience is not about fighting onward, it is about recognizing the past.
“Happiness isn’t getting what you want, but becoming happy with what you have” — Dave Hollis on GrowthDay.
The Best Laid Plans of Mice and Men Often Go Awry.
The line “The best laid schemes o’mice an’ men | Gang aft agley [often go awry]” from Robert Burns poem To A Mouse is now a common saying.
The best laid plans will often go wrong.
It is a reminder that our plans will go wrong. No matter how good the plans are.
You can spend months planning a trip, a project, or a new product. And then a global pandemic hits. The bank doesn’t approve the mortgage for that new home which would have made your life easier. Relationships that were thought to be on a rock-solid foundation fall off a cliff with no notice.
Life happens at the exact moment when we think we have it all figured out. It is in the moments when our plans go wrong that we build resilience.
