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Ten Ways to Deal with a Bad Day
We have all had the mind-numbing days when everything goes wrong and we begin to think it might be safer to go home and hide under the covers until the day is over. We often cannot control the events in our lives but there are some strategies that can help ensure that you never have a bad day again. All it takes is a little strategy and you can control what your day is like.
1. You have to have an attitude.
Your attitude can change anything. We have all heard the statement that the important thing is not what happens to you but how you react to the situation. You have the power to choose how you will react to anything. You can appear defeated and have a pity party for yourself or you can find a way to change what happens into a positive. I once woke up to find that my dog had destroyed the upstairs of our house. My husband was traveling and I only had a short period of time to help a four-year-old and two teenagers get ready for school and I had to dress for work. There was no question of time to clean up the mess and I was going to be in class and meetings all day so I was not sure when I could clean up. When I first saw the mess, my children were all ready for an explosion from me, but I merely said calmly “I’m not sure when I can clean this.” I took my four-year-old to daycare and when I returned, the two older children had skipped breakfast to clean up for me. It left me with a…