When things don’t work out, I will face them confidently and positively.

Facing something usually looks less impressive than it sounds. It's opening the letter on the day it arrives rather than leaving it propped behind the fruit bowl for a week, which is where most of the damage actually accumulates.

Confidence here isn't a feeling about the outcome. It's a working assumption that you'll still be able to do something on the other side of the bad news, whatever it turns out to be. That assumption has a good deal of evidence behind it, given how many previous bad envelopes you have already survived.

The positive part is smaller than it sounds too. Not cheerfulness about a loss. Just the next concrete action — one phone call, one list — taken before the mood has cleared.