Like you, I’ve often gotten bad news.
Something I wanted to happen didn’t turn out the way I hoped.
Like you, I’ve been disappointed.
But I’ve learned that that “bad news” was often good news in disguise.
Something much better happened instead – often something I could never even imagine.
So I think we need a new phrase for “bad news.”
I suggest Change News.
Change News can be our new code for something that didn’t go as we planned but will mean a new, better direction; we just might not see where the new direction is taking us yet.
In other words, the next time some “bad news” comes your way, reframe it in your mind to be “change news.”
Yes, you didn’t get what you said you wanted, but maybe, just maybe, you’re about to get something even better. You just have to wait out the change to see where it leads. The “bad” simply means “change.”