9 Powerful Tips to Help You Turn a Bad Day Around

“To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.” Henry David Thoreau “Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.” Robert Louis Stevenson Some days are great, better than you would have expected when you rolled out of the bed in the morning. Quite a few days are just good and OK days. And then we have the other ones. The days that just wind up being bad. What do you do then? I used to let them drag me down and I often wound up having not just one but a couple of bad days because of whatever happened. Nowadays I do things a bit differently. And this week I’d like to share how I do that. This is 9 tips and habits that help me to turn a bad day around. Most of the time I use more than one of these habits to do that. 1. Breathe. I usually start turning my day around with shaking things up by using my body in some way. The first thing I almost always do is to just breathe. I breathe deeply through my nose by using my belly. I focus only on the air going in and out for 1-2 minutes. This calms my body and mind. 2. Do a power pose. Then I sometimes follow that up by striking what Amy Cuddy calls a power pose for about 2 minutes (check out her TED talk, it’s really good). The simplest way to strike a power pose is to stand up confidently like Wonder Woman or Superman with your legs apart, head up and your hands on your hips. It might sound odd but it can really change how you feel in a quick and positive way. 3. Work ou...
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