I lost my watch. It cost about $4K new so I was especially annoyed with myself. So, for about the past 15 days I’ve been thinking nasty things about myself. “I’m irresponsible.” “I can’t be trusted with nice things.” “I’m scatterbrained.”
I’m trying now to mount a counter-argument. So….
1. I owned the watch for almost 7 years without losing it, so I can be trusted with nice things for a while, at least.
2. I have never been in a serious car accident or driven drunk or gambled away a large sum of money, so i’m not irresponsible in every arena of life.
3. I’ve held down some rather interesting and mentally stimulating jobs. I have made decent money investing. I’ve tracked expenses for my business for almost 5 years now. So, I’m not totally scatterbrained.
Hmmmmm. I’m not convinced. But, at least there now is a tiny voice in the back of my head whispering, “maybe, just maybe, you’re not as bad as you think…”
