Today I refuse to beat myself up because I have in some way made an error. I needn’t fall apart on the inside. When I go on and on berating myself, one mistake becomes ten, and soon I have burrowed myself in so deep that I can’t get out. This time when I do something that I find upsetting, I will let the torment end there. Being thrown off once by a thing gone wrong is enough; repeating it over and over again is compulsive and self-destructive. There is just no reason to be so hard on myself – who will benefit from it? My refusal to allow myself to fall into an inward cycle of negativity over an outward error makes a healthy, self-affirming statement that I am ready to live in harmony with myself and keep my life on a positive track.

I am not hard on my own insides.

The greatest part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances.
Martha Washington