The 6 Proven Ways to Restart Again after Setbacks

When life gets hard, these daily practices will get you unstuck and back on track.

“Into each life some rain must fall” from The Rainy Day
by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

We’ve all been there.

Path #1: We’re cruising along, checking to-do’s off our lists, and slaying each item on the way to completing our goals. You’re on your game. You’ve worked hard. Everything is falling into place. You pause and take stock of how far you’ve come. Since you’re confident and grateful, not cocky and gloating, you restart the next leg of your journey with positive expectations that it will be as effortless as the previous. Nothing can stop you now. You could live forever in this state of flow.

Path #2: Or perhaps you’re on the dreaded flip side of flow, drought. Each step is tough and fraught with distractions and disasters that are none of your makings. You’re doing everything right, so why isn’t anything working?! You made solid plans andhave the appropriate skills and talents to achieve your goals, but you’re persistence and effort have gotten you nowhere. Where did you go wrong? What needs to be fixed? How can you fix this disaster?

When life is good, we expect it to stay good; when it’s bad, we expect it to stay bad.