If you’ve ever ridden the Tube, you’ll have heard a robotic voice reminding you to ‘mind the gap’ as you leave the train.
Ignoring these words could delay the train, one of the worst crimes you can commit in the capital.
But there’s another kind of gap that we shouldn’t mind at all because it makes us unhappy.
Most people make the mistake of measuring how far they’ve come by how close they are to achieving their vision. We measure the gap between where we are and where we want to be, which is usually not as close as we’d like.
It’s far less depressing if we take the time to measure how far we’ve come from where we started; we measure our gains.
If we’re too busy fretting about the gap between where we could be and where we are, we’re missing out on enjoying all the gains that got us here now.
Don’t mind the gap, except on the Tube.