Daily blog (audio): Good or Fairy-tale? [Have you had a good week?]

<p>Good or Fairy-tale? [Have you had a good week?]</p> <p><br> <br> We're on a mission to help one million people RISE by 2030 - join the movement at <a href="http://www.myrise.co.uk/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.myrise.co.uk</a></p> <p><br></p> <p>At the end of the day, if I were to ask you how your day has been (I would do if I saw you late in the day), what would you say?</p> <p>Or if, at the end of the week, I asked “How’s your week been?”</p> <p>Would you say “Good”?</p> <p>You might.</p> <p>But, from my experience of asking these questions hundreds and hundreds of times……..</p> <p>You probably won’t.</p> <p>For most people the ‘best part’ of their week (at least according to their Facebook statuses) is “the end of it”.</p> <p>Or “getting through it”.</p> <p>The question we could ask though, is what ‘measuring stick’ are we applying to whether a day or week is good or not?</p> <p>What definition of what has to happen in that time frame?</p> <p>If we have no definition at all, we’re just left with “How I feel”.</p> <p>And that will never tell us that we feel the week has been good.</p> <p>If we have some other definition………</p> <p>Where everything goes perfectly……….</p> <p>Where we get absolutely everything done we possibly could want to………</p> <p>Despite that rarely (if ever) happening in reality………</p> <p>Then that’s not a “good week”.</p> <p>That’s a “fairy-tale week”.</p> <p>Make believe.</p> <p>And that’s just setting us up for disappointment, frustration and the feeling that it’s been a “bad” week (or day).</p> <p>If we set a standard that isn’t going to happen…….</p> <p>Is that serving us well?</p> <p>An approach that benefits us?</p> <p>Changing that standard doesn’t mean lowering it.</p> <p>If anything, by having worthwhile, but doable, expectations……..</p> <p>That increases standards over time.</p> <p>We feel things are going well.</p> <p>We build confidence and momentum.</p> <p>We don’t constantly feel we’re “failing”.</p> <p>That we’re “behind”.</p> <p>We feel less “overwhelmed”.</p> <p>Unm