When we have not what we love, we must love what we have.
A leader is someone who compels others to positive action by the power of their own positive action.
Appreciate fully what you are eating, enjoy it fully, breathing and smelling the aroma to add to the taste, chewing slowly and well, to taste more and to digest better. Discover the subtleties of taste. Gently keep bringing the wandering mind back to tasting fully what you’re eating. Feel the difference! Give thanks for the chance to be able to enjoy what you eat.
If you want to be incrementally better: Be competitive. If you want to be exponentially better: Be cooperative.
All ups and downs help you to find a balance in your being. No more ups and downs, but bliss, joy, silence and gratitude.