While disappointments are bound to come into your life on daily basis, Bronstein points out that "when something doesn't work out the way you'd like it to, know that there are always more opportunities just waiting to come into your life." She suggests asking yourself questions along the lines of "Is not getting the job I want life-threatening?" (for job, you can substitute invitation, second date, requisite number of TikTok followers, etc.) as well as the more general "What is the worst that can happen?" and "If the worst happens, will I survive it?" (In most cases, where the issue at hand is not a life-threatening disease or potentially fatal prank, the answer will probably be "yes.")
Bronstein advises looking at life with a "glass half-full" perspective, saying that if you can manage to do so, "you will see that things end up working out whether it's what you thought you wanted or not." As a wise old sage named Mick Jagger once said, "You can't always get what you want, but if you try sometimes, you might find, you get what you need." (Bronstein goes Jagger one better, insisting life "ALWAYS gives us what we need." Bronstein's last piece of advice for us: "If you allow yourself the space to be in the flow of life rather than a place of rigid perfectionism, you will see that your life ends up being more peaceful, and the things that are supposed to happen will happen."
