So you had a bad day at work, and the prospects for a better evening are not showing any promising signs. Man, if you could just hit a reset button and re-create the day, things would be much different. Sure it would, because hindsight is twenty-twenty. Instead of focusing on how you wish you could change a bad day, focus on attaining the fortitude, which will allow you to accept and deal with the bad day. For as long as you live, bad days will be connected to the good ones, and try as you may, that will never change.

When some folks realize their train (body & mind) is about to run off the tracks, they try to find ways to diminish the impact of the fall. Some will go shopping and spend money they do not even have. Some will go to the local tavern, over drink, and incur a DUI charge. Some may even go home and take it out on the family. Resultant to your bad day, you have now created a situation where you must add additional days to compensate for that one bad one.

When you spend unearned money, it will become necessary to hide or duck and dodge the credit man, more stress. If you are charged with a DUI, money for a lawyer, loss of money from your job because of court appearances, more stress. If you go home and become boisterous, the police comes and take you to jail. Now let’s talk about hindsight for a moment, not for the purpose of changing things, but rather, to learn from the past.

Since it is established that we all will have bad days, it would behoove us to be prepared. For example, you don’t wait until it starts to rain before you purchase an umbrella. Same principle should apply to bad days, prepare yourself in advance.

When I am thrust into a bad day by whomever, I have a plan to lessen the total impact of said day. If you will notice, I do not embark upon a plan that will cost me money. It would be rather insane to allow a bad day to cause additional hardships down the road. Therefore, when I feel a bad day coming on or if I am attempting to recover from one. I try to find solitude so I will not be influenced by others.

My number one solution is to write about it. If I write about it, I can change the script however I please, and most importantly, it doesn’t cost anything.