The moment I start feeling disappointed or discouraged or I start feeling really tense, I immediately say, “Okay, what are you measuring against?” and sure enough, I’m measuring against the ideal. And the moment I say, “Okay, turn around, where did you come from?” And the moment I turn around and I measure backwards [from] my starting point for this particular activity—bang, I feel great…. I’ve learned a lot. We’ve made tremendous progress…. In a matter of a few seconds, I go from the negative zone of being in the gap to the positive zone of measuring my actual progress.
