Of course I am afraid, who's not

Saturday afternoon, tea with a good friend. We are having a lovely women's talk, updating each other since we have not met for a long time and then, there comes the question that changes the mood of the day:

"Don't you worry about being disappointed?"

This question comes after describing the latest events of my new business life. At first, I swallow and sip some tea, browsing in the back of my mind trying to find a convincing answer. I am sure my face distorted into a forced smile of embarrassment. How can I, a respected company director once and businesswoman now, tell to my best friend, a successful finance director, the truth without losing face?

The truth being that my objectives are only partly rational and that since shortly I have switched to a day-by-day family-centric mode? Imagine playing piano music on a different instrument. This is how I feel. The music is still the same, but the instrument changed. Before it used to be the mind, now it's an orchestra of heart and hands.

Going back to the suspended question: Of course, I am afraid to be disappointed. Most of all, I am afraid to disappoint myself.

I have not become a super successful business woman, neither did I get rich yet, but who says that these are absolute measures of "making it".

Thus, I am happy to share ingredients collected so far that hint to a recipe for a good life:

• Focus on self-discipline

• Increase the doing vs. the thinking

• Sleep 8-hours/ nights on average

• Measure your results

• Follow a few clear objectives and let the rest come as it comes

• Abandon judgment

• Embrace hopefulness

• Keep going

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