What do you do when it all goes wrong?
1. Laugh.
Laugh hard and laugh often. Laugh like there’s no tomorrow – given the above, there may not be.
Seriously though. . .laughter will put you in a much better frame of mind to deal with life’s interruptions without losing your sanity.
2. Breathe.
If laughter isn’t possible, and sometimes it just isn’t, then focus on your breathing. Breathe in and out, in and out as deeply as possible until your pulse stops racing or you let go of the throat that somehow found its way into your grasp.
3. Regroup.
When the walls are caving in around you, take five minutes and figure out what you can do to keep at least one thing moving forward.
Follow-up on the email that may land you a new client. Submit your article to the various article submission sites. Pay a couple of bills. Do one
thing, anything so that you can cross something off your *list*. It’s probably best if this something doesn’t involve interaction with others!
4. Give thanks.
“What? Give thanks? Are you insane?”
I can hear the grumbling from here. Do it anyway! Grab a piece of paper and make a list of everything that you are thankful for – chances are, you have it better than millions of others.
Here’s a quick list of things that I know I’m grateful for: my health, family and friends, my pets, my business and my clients, sunrises and sunsets, flowers, chocolate ice cream, the sound of the ocean and a crisp New England fall day.
5. Get out.
Get out of the house and out of the office. Whether you choose to go for a walk, have lunch with friends, go window shopping (leave credit cards at home) or browse the shelves at your local library, get out and enjoy yourself for a bit. You’ll return in a much refreshed frame of mind and ready to tackle whatever life throws your way.
Let’s be real. Sometimes problems are just problems and not “opportunities”. Sometimes lemons make bad lemonade. And not all clouds have a silver lining. When everything goes wrong, try one (or all) of the above techniques, accept it and move on knowing that things will get better!
Thanks Sandra Martini
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is this advice for derren for tonight? are you basically pre-empting it all to go wrong?
When did this post squeeze itself in?
Should add 6. Visit your local http://www.jobcentreplus.gov.uk/ regularly to see what your career options are if it goes wrong to night lol
Take care and be lucky
Cheers
Colin
A wonderful list of things, some of which I do try and do….honest! I do try to not shout and take it out on everyone else…..honest!
LC x
PMA Derren!
Positive
Mental
Attitude!
Nothing like preparing yourself for the worst lol!
Oh Ye of little faith Phillis !!
That’s just made my day that has
Hopefully will win the lottery tonight 
Good luck Derren X
hehe, he hasnt had much positivity about tonight has he?!
@ JayKay
I noticed this too -” about 19 mins ago” if the twitter feed is correct.
Maybe Abeo and Phyllis don’t want it to be the first thing people see when they log on?? (failure etc etc)
Msg from Abeo: Nah it was meant to be posted earlier but the schedule post failed but I forgot to update the post time!
Lol @ Colin!
None of this defeatist attitude, please! You need a post titled ‘What to do when everything goes right” just to balance it out now! Good luck for tonight, but I have a feeling luck will have nothing to do with it!
Is it just me, or is this an extremely unDerrenish thing to post? It looks like spam email.
Good advice but I am more interested in the picture! What on earth is going on there?!
It will all go right, bunch of bloomin pessimists!!
Number one is what I always do; laugh. Just laugh it off. Laugh until everyone thinks you’re bonkers.
Anyway, I am once again going to wish Derren ridiculous amounts of luck for tonight (GOOD LUCK!!!) I hope you’re okay right now, because I’m close to having a heart attack, and it’s only ten to four! Dear God, what must it be like for YOU!!!???!!
Rock on
Or Cry!
You must have read my mind, anyway, I am going to pay a bill now and then have some ice cream
, good luck tonight!
As I type this there is a big dark cloud other my state of thought, I have lost concentration and can only see this one big problem standing in my way. The objects that I have in my virtual mind have been destroyed and their numbers that the represented have gone. They are jumbled up and are now with the wrong object. I don’t know what to think.
Good sound advice I think despite negative comments
I think those drivers have only just heard what Derren is doing tonight and that the only available shop to get a ticket from is 10 miles back the other way!
LC x
Well there’s your answer then, eh? Thought I’d won a competition for a sec. Nearly shat myself!
What i think derren is doing, is installing a sense of doubt, then
when it all gos right we all get a sense of wonder.
Was this advice for Derren?
He won’t need it hes amazing!
Although I feel so nervous for him and theres ages to go yet
GOOD LUCK DERREN!!! You can do it
anyone else FIND themselves pressing “refresh” like a maniac?????
woopie woop
I’ve had Monster Munch and 4 very chocolate biscuits and it’s hormones-a-gogo time. I can’t handle when the web slows down, okay!!! Click, click, click, batter, clang, click, click, aaaaaaaaaarrrgh!
i love you good luck hope you do well xx
Has Derren already predicted the numbers, are they the ones in the trailer on the lamp post?
I’m going to save this somewhere. It’ll be helpful when the exam stress hits again this year. Yay. D:
PMA Positive Mental Attitude? or PMA Post Menstrual Attack?! ….;-)
i have a funny feeling (although theres a high chance im wrong) that Derren may be misdirecting us from something else and his intentions may not be to guess the lotto numbers? what does everyone else think??
Twitter: JRabone
I lovelovelove this post!
@ reallynuts69 I agree…i’m sure Derren wouldn’t do something like this live on TV if he wasn’t 110% sure he’d get it right
Well, something def. went wrong … the whole site was out of the air for quite some time …. I wanted to add a comment here last night and PLOP … out if went .. near by 23.00 your time it still was not visible for us …
Nor were there updates on the internet on the lottery prediction …. And as I just had been watching the documentary on the twin towers … it sort of seemed as if Brown Towers ….. That’s a career breaker I thought … they went out with a bang … LOL …
I just don’t get why so many people are saying “OMG how did he do it?” when the so-called prediction came AFTER the numbers were drawn. If it had come BEFORE, without the ridiculous contractual excuse, I could understand the amazement, but no. People apparently WANT to believe that Derren Brown predicted the lottery before the numbers were drawn… even though he didn’t. Even though some sophistry was obviously involved.
If Brown really believed he would successfully predict the lottery numbers last night, and wanted discerning viewers to believe it too, he would have had a trusted sceptic like James Randi in the studio observing unfilmed proceedings, but no… we just have to take his word for it… and apparently half the brain-dead TV viewing public are quite prepared to accept it.
Ah, finally .. last night when I was about to type a comment .. I noticed the wrong behind the slash in the url … HUH? I thought … and then the whole site went down …. Freaking weird huh? Ofcourse I figured .. (we need to keep a realistic brain on top) .. server trouble (ours is more the earth quake type .. it gives strong signals on fore hand .. ), but now .. it finally .. f i n a l l y .. hit me … it’s the post itself that dealt with wrong … ehehehehe ….
All tips are normally being used by me .. although I normally wont laugh out loud most of the time as one of the first things … only when I dont take it too serious, when I can take it not too serious ..
‘That’s freaking weird too … my post was not there and now that I post the 2nd one .. and it refreshes .. the 1st one is there all of a sudden too ….. This might lead to people posting stuff twice or people feeling deleted (I noticed a few comments here and there of people who felt a bit like that or at least were wondering ..).
Well .. then go to tip 1:
Laught out loud …. dont try to work it …. dont reason … that will fuck up some people’s minds otherwise as they probably will put in something from theirselves in their comments and they feel like been hitting in the face ….
Mind control is never so bad .. never believe your first response .. even if it is true .. it is quite often not very usefull for yourself … for obvious reasons …
@ Everyone
Firstly:
Yes, I was confused about why this post hadn’t caught my eye until after everything had ‘gone down’.
Secondly:
I hope that everyone here actually realises that it’s not only the blog topics that make this site so great. It’s all of you too! A lot of people here are so damn funny, it’s brilliant! So kudos to you all.
Thirdly;
I love that picture above!
There’s always one isn’t there, LOL!
Peace People!
Great work, webmaster, nice