Mel Robbins explains Jim Kwik's 40% rule: if you give everything you have left, you've given 100%. Instead of beating yourself up over unfinished tasks, acknowledge you did your best, give yourself an A, and rest.
I did my best today. This is inspired from another expert that came on this podcast. His name is Jim Kwik. He is the author of the bestselling book Limitless. He is renowned for his practical and proven methods that increase memory, speed of reading. And there was this thing that he said on the podcast that I come back to all the time. I love it. He said, on those days when you only have 40% to give and you still give 40%, you just gave 100% of what you had to give, right? So when you say, "I did my best today," the reason why this works is because you are telling yourself the truth. You did do your best today, given everything that was coming at you, given everything that you were managing. Only you know what's going on in your life, and you know that you gave it what you had to give. So give yourself an A, 'cause you deserve an A. The old you right now lays in bed and you look backwards at all the things you didn't do and you give yourself an F. No, you earned an A. So remind yourself, hey, I gave it my best today. I get an A and now I deserve to rest, right? Because you gotta learn that part of your routine is not scanning the day for what went wrong, It's actually reminding yourself that you put in everything you had to give. You get an A. Now it's time to rest.
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