Hurdlers, Emily Abadi here with a brand new hurdle moment.

For the smaller obstacles we're all facing on the regular each and every day.

I am fresh off the plane from London and I've got to be honest, I am exhausted.

This is the first trip in a really long time that had absolutely nothing to do with work

and just a lot of touristing and marathon spectating and a lot of eating and it was a blast but I am ready to be back

in the New York groove. This week for hurdle moment I'm chatting about habits for happiness.

These are just some practices that I've adopted over the past couple years that

help me keep a positive outlook, even on the days where I'm not exactly feeling like my best

self. If you have some strategies of your own, I'd love to hear about them. You know the drill

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It's Emily at hurdle.us.

And with that, let's get to this week's hurdle moment.

Bad days happen. Something as simple as tripping on your way to the bathroom in the morning or forgetting your coffee tumbler on the kitchen counter when you're leaving to go to the office.

They can totally throw off your vibe for the rest of the day.

Over the last few years, though, I've managed to home in on some ways to

keep smiling, even when I feel frustrated or tired or whatever the case may be. Granted, these are

strategies that work for me, but hopefully they can work for you too. All right. Habit number one,

be your authentic self. We say this time and time again, social media can really be

toxic. I mean, depending on what your rules are for keeping your phone near or around your

bedroom, pretty much from the second we wake up in the morning, we are bombarded with images of what

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