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I woke up unhappy
I woke up unhappy.
And you know, when you are unhappy all you can see what doesn’t work. a d see it as big, monumental, maybe even tragic.
In my dream I attended a seminar. Lots of things were as I remembered: the people, the teacher, the girl sitting next to me. Only I changed. I got dumber, fatter, and with a whole lot less hair. One dude sitting behind me in the class even remarked me. The teacher called on me and shamed me in front of the class.
In one word: it was terrible.
So this is the mood I woke up in, and, of course, carried it into my morning routine. 1
Now, how do you get out of a mood like that without spoiling your whole day, other people’s mood, your life, because of one lousy dream?
So what would someone do who teaches self-coaching?
Self-coaching is what I teach? Hell yeah. In the Playground the students use principles and the script to self-coach themselves out of anything that is wrong.
Would the script help me here? Maybe. But if I look, something is missing from the script: comparison.
Of course comparison belongs to the “unrealistic and unfulfilled expectations” category, but it is too much to ask of someone already upset to realize that.
