Look at yourself before you pass judgment. Don’t make someone else clean up your mess.

Do not therefore pull yourself up with vain-glory about the trifling advantages of a poor victory.

Don't carry a grudge.

Do not weep. Do not wax indignant. Understand.

It is possible of course to get stuck in the “mud” of life. It’s easy enough to notice mud all over you at times. The hardest thing to practice is not allowing yourself to be overwhelmed by despair. When you’re overwhelmed by despair, all you can see is suffering everywhere you look. You feel as if the worst thing is happening to you. But we must remember that suffering is a kind of mud that we need in order to generate joy and happiness. Without suffering, there’s no happiness. So we shouldn’t discriminate against the mud. We have to learn how to embrace and cradle our own suffering and the suffering of the world, with a lot of tenderness.

Neither blame or praise yourself.

Don't get your balls crossed about it.

You have no cause to grumble boy. You made your choice and all this is a consequence of your choice. Whatever now ensues is what you yourself have chosen.

Don't plead with anyone if you were not at fault, you'll only look inferior, stupid and funny, bolster your ego by doing the undoing.

You can rake the muck this way, rake the muck that way — it will always be muck. Have I sinned or have I not sinned? In the time I am brooding over it, I could be stringing pearls for the delight of Heaven

Do force yourself to stop looking backward and dwelling on the professional “train wreck” you have just been in. It’s

I refuse to repent, and I won't plague myself over what is done and past

You can't get stuck on the regrets of what should have happened

Don't throw good time after bad work.