223: Bad Day Backup Plan

Feel Good Effect

Robyn Conley Downs

Self-improvement, Health & Fitness, Education

4.9 • 725 Ratings

🗓️ 16 February 2022

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

Do you feel like nothing’s going right today? Create a personalized bad day backup plan for those days when you wake up on the wrong side of the bed. Learn to reframe all-or-nothing thinking with our 4R framework and discover research-backed tips for changing your mood for the better. You don’t want to miss this snackable episode full of tactical ideas, habits, and actions that can act as a hard reset on a bad day.

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0:00.9	You're listening to the feel good effect.
0:03.7	What to do when you're having a bad day?
0:06.4	Well, you need a bad day backup plan.
0:09.4	And that's what we're going to talk about in this episode.
0:12.4	Let's make it happen.
0:16.3	Radically simple and ridiculously doable, the feel good effect will help you redefine wellness on your terms.
0:22.6	Hi, I'm your host, Robin Conley Downs, and I believe that wellness isn't about achieving another set of impossible standards, but instead finding what works for you.
0:32.6	Drawing from cutting-edge science on mindfulness, habit, and behavior change, this podcast offers a collection of small
0:39.0	mindset shifts that allow for more calm, clarity, and joy in everyday life and allows you to
0:45.1	embrace the idea that gentle is the new perfect. I invite you to listen in as we cut through the
0:51.0	clutter and find the small shifts that create huge changes in your life.
0:55.3	Thus, striving, more ease. It's time to feel good.
1:04.8	Well, hey, feel good, fam. I am so glad you're here. Today we are talking about the bad day backup plan.
1:13.0	And it's what to do when you're having a bad day. So we've all been there. You wake up on the wrong side of the bed
1:19.4	and spill your coffee down the front of your shirt. Maybe you get a rude comment or a
1:26.7	kid meltdown or a fight with a roommate or a fight with a
1:30.6	partner and all of a sudden you're in the bad day spiral. And so it happens to all of us and I want
1:38.8	us to have a little bit of a backup plan and what to do when that happens. But I will say this, labeling things as
1:48.1	good and bad is very all or nothing thinking, which we are predisposed to. I write about this
1:53.8	in my book, the feel good effect, that we have a cognitive bias toward labeling things either
2:00.2	in or out all or nothing good or bad.
2:04.8	And the mental part of the bad day backup plan is that realizing that they're labeling
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