I don't do bad days...For me, every day, is a good day. If I accomplish anything on my to do list, that's good! If things get crazy...well that's just not me, because that's not what I attract or intend, so I know something is out of whack. So this mid-Monday morning, when I realized that things were WAY out of whack, aside from wanting to hide out in Starbucks sipping a Caramel Macchiatto until things improved (or taking a nap and starting all over), I wanted to get to the bottom of the way I felt.
I pulled my self into a coaching session. What would I say to a person who told me "everything was terrible?" Because that's how I felt. I mean, nothing happened, I just genuinely felt like everything was terrible...and not the t.v. show/performance art/band either. I mean if things were terrible like that, I would have laughed! But seriously, this morning, I felt like C.R.A.P., Crazy, Ridiculous and Peeved!!
So...I let myself have it. I did. I took it, I said, ok, this sucks!! I was in the car alone, so I let go a whole vocabulary book full of crazy, inappropriate, profane, anger filled, blame centered bad day feelings, words and sentiments. In the end, I felt great! I laughed at myself, I laughed at the bad day, I laughed at the whole scenario, because by the time I made it home, parked and finished, my son appeared at my car window asking me something, which was quickly followed by "we're you free-styling mommy?" I looked like a deer caught in headlights and said..."ummm, no" Embarrassed is not sufficient to describe how I felt. I was left with nothing to do BUT laugh at myself.
What I did come to learn during my self coaching session however, was quite significant. I've been doing a great deal of intense personal development work over the last several months, and I remember describing to a friend that it's like we have to flush out all of the negative experiences and thoughts of the past and flood our minds with this new level of programming. So what I really experienced was not necessarily a "bad day," but more of a purging of all that CRAP and crappy thinking from my past. I mean I was flushing out negative programming, thinking and processes, and well...the dirt had to go somewhere. Understanding that was a huge shift in the day for me. I realized that the day wasn't "bad" because it was still in progress, which meant I could still make an impact. It was actually a monumental day, because it was the day I released a lot of old mental junk, to allow my new mental gems to take root.
All in all, this ended up being a great day! (after I took that nap)
How do you conjure up solutions to your "bad" days?
I pulled my self into a coaching session. What would I say to a person who told me "everything was terrible?" Because that's how I felt. I mean, nothing happened, I just genuinely felt like everything was terrible...and not the t.v. show/performance art/band either. I mean if things were terrible like that, I would have laughed! But seriously, this morning, I felt like C.R.A.P., Crazy, Ridiculous and Peeved!!
So...I let myself have it. I did. I took it, I said, ok, this sucks!! I was in the car alone, so I let go a whole vocabulary book full of crazy, inappropriate, profane, anger filled, blame centered bad day feelings, words and sentiments. In the end, I felt great! I laughed at myself, I laughed at the bad day, I laughed at the whole scenario, because by the time I made it home, parked and finished, my son appeared at my car window asking me something, which was quickly followed by "we're you free-styling mommy?" I looked like a deer caught in headlights and said..."ummm, no" Embarrassed is not sufficient to describe how I felt. I was left with nothing to do BUT laugh at myself.
What I did come to learn during my self coaching session however, was quite significant. I've been doing a great deal of intense personal development work over the last several months, and I remember describing to a friend that it's like we have to flush out all of the negative experiences and thoughts of the past and flood our minds with this new level of programming. So what I really experienced was not necessarily a "bad day," but more of a purging of all that CRAP and crappy thinking from my past. I mean I was flushing out negative programming, thinking and processes, and well...the dirt had to go somewhere. Understanding that was a huge shift in the day for me. I realized that the day wasn't "bad" because it was still in progress, which meant I could still make an impact. It was actually a monumental day, because it was the day I released a lot of old mental junk, to allow my new mental gems to take root.
All in all, this ended up being a great day! (after I took that nap)
How do you conjure up solutions to your "bad" days?
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