Your breakfast toast is not just a carb. It can be an inspiration.
All it takes is “putting a happy face on my toast with squeeze jam,” Debra Grabowski of New Smyrna Beach, Florida, tells us.
That was one of the lovely emails from readers when we asked them to share the ways and means they use to keep calm and carry on in the face of setbacks and gloom.
The impetus for this callout came from an article we published earlier this month. We asked some of the attendees at the Skoll World Forum, dedicated to “accelerat[ing] innovative solutions,” what they do to “keep calm and carry on” when things get tough.
We are grateful to all who responded. Here’s a sampling of their advice.
Look ahead … way ahead
Toast decorator Debra Grabowski also recommends glancing into the future: “When things go offline and it’s getting mentally hairy, I think: “Will this matter in five years?”
We should all be as smart as this 6th grader
“Hi Goats and Soda! I’m Natalie McGill, a 6th grader from Kansas City, Missouri, and this is how I keep calm and carry on. (Especially during our upcoming standardized testing season) I ask myself “What if this is getting me to where I need to be?”
“In my head I tell myself that this, this moment, right here, right now is getting me to where I need to be. I find it comforting to know that I am always getting closer to the moment I have been waiting for, or that I am already living in it.
With pen (or mobile phone) in hand
“Thank you for letting me chime in,” writes Laura Klarman of Herriman, Utah.
[Editor’s note: You’re welcome.]
Klarman has a three-step plan:
“Here’s how I keep calm:
- Handwritten thank you notes. My problems (and the world’s) seem farther…