A Growing List of Lucky Things

Purpose

A lot of times in our life, we reflect more on what isn’t going well and not what is. It may feel like everything fails at the worst moment - however, we rarely acknowledge all the things that did go well, or by contrast worked and did not succeed. For example, during a test we will underestimate how many we got wrong because we spent so much more time on questions we didn’t know the answer to. Part of this makes sense though - we expect staples to staples in them, computers to charge when we plug them in, and phones to work (we expect things to work.)

In light of this idea of gratitude, one idea I had was to keep a rolling list of all the things I’ve seen that have luckily gone in a favorable direction. That way, I’ll pay more attention to what is working than just what isn’t.

Lucky Nice Things

• Important Account Online for me has its password, not entire account, expire
• The Test Question did not ask about simulations
• The MCQ was Free
• Only lost a year due to COVID-19
• Practice Tests Haven’t Asked About Holes in a Conductor
• The company I work at doesn’t focus on engineering as much as research
• I was able to conduct an independent project, instead of continue an existing one
• Admin didn’t kick us out even though we didn’t formally sign up to run the event