Never Have a Bad Day

Have you ever had a bad day? It's the kind of day when you spill coffee on your light khaki pants right before a job interview, you get a flat tire on the way home from work, or your screaming child caused you to get kicked out of the restaurant. Whatever it may be, the bad days seem to take their toll after a while. Ideally, everyone would like to have a good day, every day.

What if you could have a good day, every day? You're probably laughing at me in disbelief. How can this be possible? Life has a way of throwing curve balls and lemons at the worst times. I understand that unfortunate events will happen. These events happen to everyone.

Up to this point, it seems as if there's a constant push and pull between good days and bad ones, almost as if it were a black and white concept. Therein lies the problem. Good days and bad days aren't polar opposites. Looking at the days as if they're polar opposites is making the assumption that nothing in life is good when you have a bad day. Sure, bad things will happen, but they are obstacles that happen within a good day.

Instead of viewing life in terms of the good versus bad, only think of your day as a good day. As Ed Tate, 2000 World Champion of Public Speaking, would say, "reset the scale; reset your life." Instead of looking at your life as good (positives) versus bad (negatives), create a positive scale that starts at 1. There is nothing less than zero. Zero implies that you're not physically living. Measure your good days on a scale of 1-10. The bad things can impact your good scale, but there will always be something in your life that makes your day a good day. Heck, if you want to call it a fantastic, marvelous, or outstanding day, then do it. It's your scale.

When you reframe how you view your day, it shifts life perspective, which will allow you to have a good day, every day.