The next time you go to say, I'm having a bad day. Let's shift the narrative to I'm having a

character building day. It may sound cheesy at first, but it is gold, I promise you. Hear me out.

So I first heard this from Les Brown. He said in a speech in a very grand way,

you're not having a bad day, you're having a character-building day.

And it stuck with me. What a great way to look at it. Because we know a few things for sure.

We can't always control what happens to us, but we can control how we interpret it and react to it.

And we also know that the words we say in our head and out loud are so powerful.

If you view challenges in your day as hurdles that make you stronger, rather than labeling the entire thing as bad, it's a game changer.

Once you've decided the day is a bad one, you might not even see the good things or

opportunities that come up.

You've called it.

When it doesn't have to be that way,

you hold all the control. We're leaning into that today. Let's go. You're listening to the How to

Be Awesome at Everything podcast where we're obsessed with life hacks that make your life more awesome.

Your host, Lindsay Dick Hout, is an entrepreneur and business owner, a mom and wife,

and someone who wants to do things over the top at all times. This concept started as a collection

of things Lindsay has learned that she was documenting to give to her kids one day, and now it's a podcast.

Join us on this journey where we talk about how to be awesome at everything we do.

Here's Lindsay.

One of my all-time favorite quotes is, strength grows in the moments when you think you cannot go on, but you keep going anyway.

The bottom line is, struggling sucks,

but it's also what makes us really strong and tough and able to weather the storms when new things

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