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Have you heard of this words on “Don’t Cry Over The Spilled Milk“? If you heard this simple phrase of words before, do you really understand the meaning and take into practise yourself. Recently, I have heard this phrase from my one of my colleagues and it suddenly kicks into my mind so that why I decided to write a post on this phrase of words. What actually caused my colleague to say those words were because I was thinking of ways to recover something that we had already thrown away and he felt that it is meaningless trying to spend the time to recover the item when it has already been like that. After thinking through what he said, I realised it is true that we sometimes are wasting our time crying over unnecessary spilled milk in our life.

Most of us should know the meaning straight from the phrase “Don’t Cry Over The Spilled Milk” as it simply means do not bother over things that has happened. Here’s the exact meaning that I got from wikitionary: “It is no use worrying about unfortunate events which have already happened and which cannot be changed.” Therefore, I felt it is important for us to start to think about the things that are keeping on pondering in our minds and go through them one by one on a piece of paper (ensure we are clear of what we are thinking at any point of time) to see whether are we crying over spilled milk. If the incident that has happened before us and is really unavoidable, why should we keep on thinking about it and wasting our brain juice while we can process better thoughts at that particular moment of time.

What I have learned from this phase of words is to understand the problem and determine whether is it worth my energy to go through it, if it is not, I should continue moving forward with other tasks that need my attentions more in order to achieve what I want in my journey to success. Let’s all start to practise putting this phrase of words into our mind by reminding ourselves “Don’t Cry Over The Spilled Milk.” I do believe it will create a significant improvement in your thinking progress as lesser ineffective thoughts were