Bad Days Are Like Viruses

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Published by Rachelle Disbennett-Lee
Friday, December 14, 2001
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Have you ever noticed how bad days can spread like a virus? We get up feeling fine, but on the way to work someone cuts us off in traffic. We get upset and when we get to work take it out on the receptionist. She takes offense and makes a snide remark to the first customer that walks through the door and on and on. Bad moods can spread like viruses because so many of us are on automatic pilot and are not aware how the actions of others are controlling us.

We can make a choice how others affect us. We can choose to be proactive or reactive. If we choose to be proactive, we will respond in a way that will allow us to stay in control of our emotions or we might choose not to respond at all. Not everything someone does requires a response from us. We can choose to be neutral.

Actually there is no such thing as a good or bad day. Days just are. What makes a good or bad day is our perception of the events and interactions we have had. We can choose to shift our perception from thinking we are having a bad day into realizing that what occurs is simply part of a day. By not seeing things as either/or, we can choose to be in the flow of the day and not pass on the day virus.

Coaching

We don't always have control over what happens. What we have control over is our reaction to and our perception of what happened. We can choose to respond in a way that is positive and supportive. By choosing how to respond we decide if something will make, break, or not affect our day. It is up to us. We can choose to have whatever kind of day we choose.

What kind of day will you have?

Daily Success Formula

Bad Day = Perception

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