I'll give you a quick example, a personal example

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It's not about doing it in a pessimistic and negative way. The idea is not to feel bad when everything is going well, obviously. That's not the idea at all. When everything is going well, you have to be happy. And besides, you have to try to be happy when everything is going badly too, even if it's more difficult. The idea is obviously, when everything is going well, to be happy but while remaining realistic and telling yourself: "It won't last."

Sometimes we can have long periods without any worries, where everything is going well for us, our career is going well, our relationships with friends, with family, with our spouse. Everything is going great, everything is great. The sky is blue, there is not a single cloud. It is summer. And we think that it will last forever. Why would we think negative things in these periods? So, we tell ourselves that everything will stay like that, but we know that it is not realistic. We know that in the blue sky, at one point, there will be a small cloud that will arrive, then maybe a big cloud. Then, the temperatures will drop and winter will arrive.

And if we don't anticipate future israel whatsapp number data problems, we're going to be taken by surprise when they arrive. Quite simply, we won't be ready. And that's terrible.

I don't remember the exact quote, but Seneca, a great Stoic philosopher, wrote that ultimately what is hardest, what destroys people, is the unexpected, it's when something happens to us that we didn't expect. We are so surprised that we are stunned. And that's the hardest, it's the most painful. When we expect something, when we know that this thing is going to happen or that this thing can happen, we are much less stressed, we are much less destroyed when this thing actually happens. What destroys is the unexpected. Again, we are not here to be pessimistic all the time and say to ourselves: "I'm going to have problems etc." but it's just, try to be realistic and prepare.

I'm not going to be specific because I don't want to go into all the details. It wouldn't necessarily be useful anyway. In my life, between 2013 and 2018, I had nothing but positive things, really nothing but positive things. Everything was going really well. I have Français Authentique which was developing very well. At the time, in 2013, I was still a project manager in the automotive industry. I was working in Germany, I was quietly developing my business, I was spending time with my family. Tom was born in 2013. In 2016 we moved, bought a house. Everything was going really well. 2013-2018, at the top. Like everyone else, I had little worries, little minor concerns, but nothing that really stopped me from sleeping or really made me sad or anxious.