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10 questions to ask yourself when you’re having a bad day.
1 min readMar 15, 2025
- Is there a day in the recent past that has felt worse than how I’m feeling today?
- Do I have perspective on what I consider to be bad in my day?
- Is what I’m feeling bad about based on my expectation of what I think is good, or did I have absolutely no control over what has happened today?
- Is what I consider bad today going to matter in two weeks? Is it going to matter in 25 years?
- Is my day predicated on being triggered or dictated by an outside source that has nothing to do with me internally?
- Do I consider a bad day an opportunity to grow or a justification to practice negative self-talk?
- Am I being rational?
- Am I rationalizing whoever or whatever I’m blaming for how this day has gone?
- Do I take full responsibility for how I’m viewing the day?
- Am I accountable for the outcome of my point of view when it’s blocking the objectivity I could be discovering if I were able to see outside of myself?
