When we allow our standards to be impacted by our current bad performance and negative perception of it, we are setting our systems up for failure as we allow them to drift toward low performance and take our goals and expectations right along with them. In order to combat this, we need to keep our standards steadfast despite dips in performance and expect that we will rise to meet them. If we do this, we can flip the script and start drifting toward better performance. Just keep in mind the wisdom of Scarlet O’Hara, “tomorrow is another day.” In our case tomorrow is another day to stick to
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