It’s Okay To Have Bad Days

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I’ll let you in on a secret. Even though I’m a life coach, I spend maybe one day a week utterly unproductive, wasting my time online and feeling meh. Yes, I still have bad days.

In fact, I’ll let you in on an even bigger secret. Everybody has bad days.

That guy who’s always cheerful and energetic, lighting up the whole room? He has bad days, too. Your favourite actor or singer? Yup. Motivational speakers? Aye.

You just don’t get to hear about their bad days, because everybody puts their best foot forward when dealing with other people. If you extrapolated from the things you hear, most people’s days would be spent feeling amazing and excited, meeting interesting people and achieving great things.

That doesn’t mean people are lying to you. The simple truth is – most of everyday life is boring.

I don’t write on Fun Life Development about the night I was browsing reddit until 3 am. That would be boring to read about. I pick out the most interesting stuff from my life, like lucid dreaming or giving out free hugs and write about that.

If you extrapolated from what you hear, you would get unrealistic expectations of what life should be like, and beat yourself up because you have bad days. That’s like constantly seeing magazines with photoshopped super models, and then beating yourself up because you don’t look like them.

Everybody has bad days. It’s okay.

Instead of feeling bad about it (which just prolongs the suffering and makes it worse), accept the bad day when it comes, and move on. The day will end when you go to sleep, and your next day will be better.

Half of all happiness is managing your expectations.

You will have bad days.

It’s okay.

(image courtesy of brent_nashville)

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Cheerio, and see you next week!

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