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Maybe because its Wednesday?!
Maybe it’s because you had one too many glasses of red wine the night before. Maybe it’s because your mother-in-law popped in over the weekend. Whatever the reason for your foul mood today, it’s time to push the little black cloud hovering over your head away.
The only person responsible for your current mood is you. Having a positive attitude is not something that can be learned. The ability to stay positive and happy is a choice. Your bad mood can’t last forever, eventually you will feel better.
If you can accept the erratic nature of life, it’s much easier to stay relaxed, happy, and calm. Here are 28on27's tips on how to keep on feeling groovy, no matter the mountain load of s**% that's falling:
1). Appreciate each day. Whatever happens, good or bad, you can’t change or get back what happened in the past 24 hours. Live in the moment and appreciate the people and the world around you.
2). Have a dance. Many situations and scenarios are out of our control. But there are a lot of things we can control. We can choose to be in a good mood. We can choose to eat healthier. We can choose to whack on our power song and groove out.
3). Don’t sweat the small stuff. Ask yourself, “Will this matter in 100 years?” “Will it be a big deal if I don’t get my way?” Practice turning the other cheek.
4). Be thankful. There is always something to be thankful for, no matter what you’re facing in your life. Do you have healthy children? Are you in a warm, loving, relationship? Did you have coffee this morning? Did your Golden Retriever lick you just before you left the house? Think about what you have instead of what you don’t have.
5). What’s the worst that could happen? Paolo Coelho wrote, “The fear of suffering is worse than suffering itself.” Chances are “the worst” isn’t all that bad. You’ll survive even if you butchered today’s presentation. That bad date last night doesn’t mean you won’t ever find true love. A job loss doesn’t necessarily mean you’ll lose everything. Don’t get yourself all worked up about the possible outcomes for each bad thing that happens to you.
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