Make a Great Day Every Day
Chuck is amazing. I noticed sometime back, he started saying “Make a great day!” when we were bidding our good-byes for the day.
One day, I decided to ask him why he said Make instead of Have. He said, having a great day, all depends on us. Of course, that’s true.
Everyone faces challenges most days. Rather than wait for something good to happen to us, we can determine that we steer the day in the direction we want it. How we face the day, embrace it and make it, will determine how our day pans out in the end. So let’s give our day our best shot with these life savers below.
1 Arise and shine. Don’t hit the snooze button.
Get up on time. Once you start running behind at the start of the day, it can create unnecessary stress such as running late, forgetting something.
Do you find that each time you keep hitting the snooze button, you are not doing yourself any favors? All you are doing is prolonging the inevitable, which is to get up, and face the day. The sooner you embrace the day, the happier you will be!
2 Life is spiritual. Connect!
Pray, read your Bible, meditate. Putting your spirit in gear, puts the rest of our being in gear. That is our soul (i.e. our mind, emotions and will) and our body. Connect. Before hearing the latest news on what has happened overnight (usually some tragedy) that brings on fear and anxiety, get spiritual strength and inspiration.
3 Do your positive affirmations
We are what we say. Our life (and our day) will go in the direction of our tongue. So make sure you are saying the right thing. Get taking to yourself. Get saying the right thing. If you say your day is going to be good, it will be so in spite of every challenge that throws itself at you. If you look out of the window, see the weather and are already saying it is a horrible day, guess what kind of day you are putting your way?
So get confessing and saying those positive affirmations. Speak life and not death into every situation. Don’t stop talking it.
4 Write out what you want to accomplish today
Start with a basic plan. If you fail to plan, you plan to say, they say. So if you want to give your day a good start, don’t just let the day happen or stumble into another day.
Prioritize what is important, and give attention to it. Plan your schedules and times. Learn to pace yourself too. There are also somethings to bear in mind in what not to do in planning. Make sure you avoid these.
5 Have breakfast
It is the most important meal of the day! It is said that people who eat breakfast are usually slimmer than those who don’t. So give yourself a moral boost too. Eat breakfast, get slim…but more importantly, get productive. The secret of a good diet is to eat breakfast like a king!
6 Check your vision board before heading out
There may be one thing on the board that grabs attention. Let that be your focus come what may for the rest of your day. It will help give you purpose.
7 Smile and appreciate yourself
Smile and you will an instant better. Laugh often too today. Laughter is good medicine. Laughter is a good morale booster. Incorporating a ‘laughing session’ into your day will go a long way in improving your mental health.
8 Appreciate someone today
Pay someone a compliment. Make someone else’s day and as you do, you will make your own.
9 Be kind to yourself
Don’t be hard on yourself especially for any mistake you make. Remember mistakes don’t define us. Mistakes guide us and make us better people. Congratulate yourself for every achievement, small or big
##10 Be thankful
Thankful people are usually happier people! Find something to be happy about. Work is stressing you? Just be thankful you have a job? Kids are acting out? Be thankful you have children. If you can look at life that way, your day will feel and be a whole lot better.
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