Good news or bad news

What’s your relationship with bad news?

What about good news?

When good news goes to your head, it may become your new normal and anything less is a disappointment. It may become the seed of downfall where you’re too afraid to try new things, fear that the good news may end.

When bad news goes to your head, it too may become your new normal and put you in a ‘funk’. It may become the seed of doubt that turns into quitting your body of work altogether.

News can control us and our work. But it doesn’t have to.

Marcus Aurelius put it this way: “Stand on your own two feet without needing to be propped up by others. Stay at your post, do your work as best as you can, and be ready to go when Fate calls you.”

News need not receive a free pass to modify your mood nor your behaviour.

News can simply be news.

Leaving you alone to simply do your best work.