How to start over: Dealing with disruptions

• When you get disrupted, notice this and notice any tendency to be harsh with yourself about it, or resentful towards life or other people about the disruption.
• Shake off that feeling and instead, tell yourself that life is an uncontrollable river and you just have to flow with it. You just need to adapt to the present circumstance.
• Shrugging off any past mistakes, focus on starting again.
• If there’s any learning to take from the previous attempt, adjust your method to account for whatever obstacles you faced.

There’s a hope that when we start creating a new habit, we’ll master it and never have to worry about it again, or when we start a new project, it’ll go perfectly.

Unfortunately, life never goes according to our plans. Things don’t ever go smoothly, progress is never linear, and we’ll alway...