How to turn around a bad day
You experienced it before: maybe you woke up on the wrong foot, nothing works, a stressful morning, and a hard day in general. Maybe a stressful thing you need to do. A bad experience with a grumpy person outside…day ruined.
And when your day is ruined, you might be grumpy for the entire day, thinking: This day is over and sucks.
I have been there too!
But you can turn around a bad day, so you won’t feel horrible the entire day. So, you won’t go to bed in a horrendous mood.
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Realize you can turn around your day
I know we all have those days where we just want to be. Nothing works, and everything seems to be bad. But this is part of life; good and bad days are there, even when we only want to have the good ones.
My mindset is: Always learn from the bad ones; they are great teachers. That is the balanced life; you will have good and bad seasons in life. But if we learn from the hard ones, it will make it easier.
It starts with a: No, I refuse to waste this complete day.
See it as this. Accept it’s a bad day, but it doesn’t need to be an excuse to sink deeper. Let’s say you have a stressful day:
Acknowledge this, and then decide because you have two options:
A) You will keep it like this until you go to bed; you will be stressed. And if we are stressed, everything we do will show it. You will move faster, do everything as if you are in a hurry.
B) Make the decision: your day was stressed till now, but now you take a few deep breaths and know this won’t need to stay like this. Think about your Health and how this isn’t good for your nervous system.
So, ‘Ignore’ the day you had till that moment, and decide that you have the power to end the day better than it had started, because that is essentially what will happen.
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Fill it with something you love
There is nothing better than turning your bad day around with something that fills you with happiness, peace, and makes you feel calm. It can be big or small, whatever works for you and the ability you have.
Maybe go on a walk, spend some time in nature, and reorganize your thoughts and mental well-being. Or watch your favourite show/movie with a self-care moment.
Your favourite hobby is also a great way to relax more; spend some time with something that fills you with joy.
No matter if it’s a huge or a small thing, as long as it is something you love doing, it will help you relax more.
Maybe it’s even something creative that I love doing; you can just let your imagination run free. I play around more with digital design things, especially since I just started Instagram, which is a scary thing for me to do. I want to learn more about how to design posts and anything.
I always want to learn more, constantly improving, which brings me to the next:
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Try something new
This gets your head out of the sitaution and you can focus on something else. If you learn something new, that is where your focus will be. You work your brain in a different direction; this will cut the same pattern you had that day till that moment.
It can be something new; let’s say you want to learn a new skill. You can research and start learning, and this will make you focus. Or you can continue with something you started; this is something I love doing: Improving.
Especially since you never stop learning; even when you are good at something, you never stop.
There are so many things you can learn: skills, hobbies, a new interest, or a new recipe. These are just a few examples; find what you like and start learning.
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Focus on your own cup
A message that is important to remember in every moment, but especially in the bad days or seasons we are having. It doesn’t make us a bad friend, family member, or person. This is essential.
A bad day should be filled with the things that fill your cup and make you feel at peace, and no one else. Fill it with self-care and love. Don’t stress yourself more with other things; tomorrow is another day.
Get yourself a nice dinner, cook it or take out, and do what you want. Light up a candle, have a warm beverage, and watch something you love.
That is one of the things I love to do; it’s a nonnegotiable in my routine. Have a cozy dinner, watch something I love, and just spend this moment relaxing. Since I moved out, this has become my go-to thing to do.
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xx
Lena
How to make a bad day better
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