I’ve been exploring meditation again (I use Calm and Insight Timer, though you only need one), and one of the tenets I like is ‘Begin Again’. When you find yourself distracted by a myriad of thoughts, just take a deep breath and begin again.
Athletes talk about this all the time. They miss a basket? They wipe it from their memory and begin again. It’s the work of the artist and the builder, to begin again when things go sidewise or the canvas didn’t quite turn out the way we expected. Beginning again is a superpower.
It also relieves the pressure of not getting it right the first, second, or third time. The answer is pretty simple:
Begin again.