3. Consider how you may have played a part in the day’s outcome.
Go over the day’s events and consider where you might have played a role as things went wrong. For example, maybe the day went off the rails because you did not organize your time or resources properly.
“So often we think of ourselves as passive recipients of actions upon us,” Susan Krauss Whitbourne, a professor of psychological and brain sciences at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, told HuffPost. “If you can see yourself in a more proactive mode, I think it will help you feel better. It’s not just owning your role in this, but it’s also not seeing yourself as a victim being slapped around by life.”
Just don’t engage in too much self-blame, Krauss Whitbourne said. The key here is to do this exercise without beating yourself up. See what you can do differently and commit to changing it the next time around.
