on a not-so-good day: advice to remember

I had a clinical supervisor in graduate school who said there were three things we needed to remember being counselors and therapists:

Be grateful.
Be humble. (Admit you don’t know everything.)
At the end of the day, don’t carry other people’s baggage.

A choral director I had in college said repeatedly, in a gruff voice: Adjust, Adapt, Accept.

My mom says on a daily basis to her students:
Life’s tough; wear a helmet.

So today wasn’t a great day for me, but I’m being grateful and humble; I’m carrying my baggage not everyone else’s…  I’m adjusting, adapting, and accepting…  And I’ve got my Peace Corps approved helmet firmly planted on my head.