You can’t argue with data.
When you're frustrated, angry, sad, doubtful - it's data. It means something knocked you off balance, and your job is to figure out what it was and what to do with it.
Maybe it's time to re-evaluate your values. Maybe your perspective needs a reset, so traffic doesn’t ruin your whole day.
Maybe it’s time to act. If what you’ve been doing isn’t working, change your approach. (Don't follow insanity principle)
Emotions are messengers. They carry lessons. Or prescriptions.
What you do with them depends on who you are and what result you want.
Ignoring data doesn’t make it disappear. That’s the only truly unhelpful - and often harmful way to deal with data.
Reality doesn’t go away just because we’d rather not look at it.
You step on a scale and don’t like the number. You’ve got two choices,
Change your priorities so the number no longer bothers you.
Or change your actions to get the result you want.
Getting angry won’t help.
Thinking it’s unfair won’t move the needle.
Same goes for business. If nobody’s buying what you're selling, getting mad at the world is wasted energy. Use your frustration to get curious.
Change the product. Change the pitch. Change the audience.
Get feedback. Test something new.
Life doesn’t care if you’re upset.
People don’t always meet your expectations either. That’s not their fault. It’s your cue to adjust - your expectations, your strategies, your stories.
Your frustration isn’t a signal that the world is broken.
It’s a mirror showing you where and who you are.
So don’t fight the data.
Use it.
Change the input.
Or change what you care about.
That’s how you build a life you can enjoy, get results you’re proud of, and stay kind to the people around you.
And my favorite saying these days to remember,
"The Universe is optimizing for the whole. Not for you."