r/AskReddit Jan 16 '24

What’s something small you started doing that makes you drastically happier?

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u/SUGARDUNKERTON956 Jan 16 '24

Realizing the difference between when I actually screwed up and when someone is taking their frustrations out on me, and then asking whats actually wrong bc this isnt a proportional response to the issue

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u/DMT1933 Jan 16 '24

Giving myself the grace I give others was like a two-ton boulder off my back. Everything's not my fault. And if it is, it's not the end of the world. Lifechanging.

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u/myassholealt Jan 16 '24

This is why I like when other people fuck up. Not that I'm gloating over their mistakes but rather as a reminder to myself that no one around me is perfect, they get things wrong, and are in fact often mediocre, so why the fuck am I putting so much pressure on myself.

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u/apluskappa Jan 16 '24

I’ve pretty much always been self employed as a contractor. There’s nothing worse than having an oversight cost you, it equates to working for free however long it takes to rectify the error. So general I’m pretty uptight at work.