Relax, Recognize Those Unlucky Days
You wake up late having slept poorly, the hot water's gone cold, the kids are moody and so are you. Life is struggle and everything's turning out just great thank you very much!
We all have them. Nothing we do seems to hide the fact; it's not our day. We play just as hard and just as fair as any other day -- or at least it feels that way -- but it won't make any difference. We must plainly recognise unlucky days and deal with them best by being gentle with ourselves.
This below is several hundred-year-old advice of Balthasar Gracian, the Jesuit priest and philosopher:
Recognize Unlucky Days - "They exist: nothing goes well on them; even though the game may be changed the ill-luck remains. Two tries should be enough to tell if one is in luck to-day or not. Everything is in process of cha...