Our foster son’s secondary school transition week has gone well.

So despite the nervousness all round earlier in the week, things went a lot better than expected.

Better than expected is a good place to be. And it usually comes about when we set our expectations at low levels.

Which sounds like quite a negative mindset to have.

But not at all. It has nothing whatsoever to do with which star in which distant solar system we are aiming to reach. We can go all out to reach that star, but still acknowledge that we could well fail at each and every little step we take along the way. We’d be lying to ourselves if we denied that.


With that in mind, when we manage to get that rocket to fly away from the ground for a couple of feet, it can feel like a real victory.

A step that didn’t fail. Yes!

And now we’re just that little bit closer to reaching Earendel.