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This is Laura.

Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast.

Today's tip is that sometimes having a good day may not be possible.

But when that is the case, you can still aim to take your day at least from bad to fine.

This can keep a bad day from spiraling out of control.

Longtime listeners know that I ask my guests here on Before Breakfast about how they take their days from great to awesome.

The hope is that we can follow their advice and make our days more awesome too. But there are days when awesome is just not in the cards.

The best you can hope for is to salvage a bad day and at least make it okay. On these bad days,

it is helpful to have strategies for maintaining our resilience. We need tools we can use to maintain our general

sense that tomorrow is another day. So figure out what those tools are. What is something you

have done recently, to take a day from bad to fine? When I am having a bad day, my first strategy is to try a reset.

This usually looks like going for a walk outside or perhaps a run, outside if the weather is okay,

or on the treadmill if it isn't. I often finish in a much better mood.

Another good response is to revisit what you intended to accomplish that day and adjust.

If your plans have totally fallen apart at 10 a.m., it is fine to rethink your goals.

Decide on what is most important and what you can realistically do.

Anything you can't do can be rescheduled for a future day. When your new goals feel attainable,

you may feel better about the rest of the day, since it doesn't feel like a battle to do the impossible.

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