Why are we all trying to hide the fact that we have bad days? Everyone experiences bad days & there shouldn't be any shame in that. Let's stop shaming others for not having their whole lives be perfect all the time.  I have 4 big reasons why having a bad day is totally acceptable.

Show Notes:

When you have a bad day, it doesn’t matter what happened or who was involved, it just matters that you felt like it was not a good day. And that’s important because we need to keep an eye on how many days we feel we are struggling vs how many are going well or good enough. I’m fine if a majority of my days were good enough because I made it through without slowly slipping down into a spiral of mental chaos.

But not allowing yourself to slip down into that mental chaos, that pit of despair, anything adjacent to victim mentality is the best thing you can do. Because it’s really easy to let it happen. You can easily allow whatever bad things happened that day take over all the space in your mind & not allow you to still see the good things that happened. Ask yourself how much better your day would be if you decided to make highlighting the good things in your day (even if it’s fewer than the bad things) as important as it is to talk a lot about the bad things.

The hard & tough things stand out to us & seem more fun to share than the good things, the positive things.  Having a captive audience for all the good things that happened to you today feels less likely. Another reason it’s easier to share the negatives instead of the positives is that it allows you to relate with others easier. Whereas, sharing the positives & everything going well for you can feel like bragging, self-absorbed or non-inclusive to others because they may not be having the same experiences in their life. 

Just because you have a bad day doesn’t mean you’re a bad person. Or bad at what you do. It just means that things didn’t work out. And that’s ok because not everything is going to work out. I would even go so far to say that not everything is supposed to work out. We make plans & think we thought it all the way through, but we often miss things or it just wasn’t meant to be, so it doesn’t work out. But whether you come to that conclusion or not, it’s still ok to have bad days.

Let me share with you 4 reasons why it’s acceptable to have bad days:

1. Bad Days Give You a Chance to Check-In With Yourself (honor your feelings, figure out if something triggered you, figure out what & why something bothered you, learn to sit with your negative emotions)
2. You Appreciate Your Good Moments More (once you start becoming more self-aware you can push yourself to appreciate your good days when you have these)
3. You Learn Positive Coping Mechanisms (this would be ways to support yourself & get out of your funk when it’s time, ways to not obsess over what did or didn’t happen, do something you enjoy like taking a bath, working out, reading, puzzles, time with pets, calling a friend, cleaning, ect.)
4. No One is Perfect & Can Have All Good Days (but you’ll see what you can get through & that tells you more about yourself than pretending to be perfect & manage it all)

Thank you again for listening & I hope this episode was helpful.

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