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We all have days when we doubt ourselves and feel like we're not doing a great job of managing life.
One way to steady our emotional ship is to achieve something with long-term value, even if it's small.
Small acts of competence are effective self-care.
Everyone has days when they doubt themselves and feel like they're not doing a great job of managing their life.
One way to steady your emotional ship when these wobbles hit is to achieve something with long-term value, even if it's small.
Doing something useful, but not urgent, that sets you up for future success, can be exactly what you need emotionally.
1. Learn How to Adjust Something Properly
We all probably have items that have settings where we tend to blindly mash buttons rather than actually understand how they work.
For example, I have a headlamp that I only use a few times a year. Previously, I would tend to just mash at the buttons on it until I got to the setting I needed. Usually, that worked, but sometimes it would cause odd things to happen.
The instructions that came with it were terrible. I finally got around to asking AI to explain to me which button did what.
There are lots of household items you can explore the settings on, to learn how they........