I used to have so many accidents as a child. I was always the kid who spilled her hot chocolate at the lodge when I was a Brownie, or tripped playing jump rope when it was my turn to run out.
It wasn’t a whole lot better as a teenager. I was terrified I would make some mistake in my solo at concerts and I can’t tell you how many times that happened.
I was pretty much full-grown before I realized that all those things I thought about tended to be the thing that happened. It was almost like I was hexing myself. As soon as that thought occurred to me I decided to try the opposite.
Instead of, “I hope I don’t have an accident on this ice.” I thought, “I am going to drive straight to school and it will be both safe and easy.”
It helped when I had children too. Instead of picturing them lying beside a road somewhere I always tried to picture them driving carefully home.
It’s almost second nature now, but sometimes I still have to work at it. It’s plain old-fashioned positive thinking, but you know what? It really seems to work most of the time.
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