Mojo Monday - How to Have a Good Bad Day with Carly Taylor

Published Aug 11, 2024, 2:00 PM

In this episode of Mojo Monday, Carly shares how to navigate a tough day so it doesn't feel all that bad, offering practical advice to help you find moments of reprieve, even in challenging times.

Hey, everyone, welcome to Mojo Monday. It's Carli here, and today I want to talk about something we all have to deal with, and that is bad days. So right now, some of you might be going through a rough patch life, maybe throwing you curve balls. Maybe it's stress at work or tight deadlines, a heavy workload, maybe issues with colleagues, or perhaps there's something more personal like family challenges, a relationship breakdown, difficult diagnosis, or maybe feeling overwhelmed by all the demands of life from maybe your sleep hasn't been that great. That can be a huge one and it's having a knock on effect on your mood. So whatever it is, I can assure you you are not alone. There's a spectrum of what makes a bad day, and of course some of you having worse days than others. But here's the thing. A bad day doesn't have to be all bad, even if it feels like it. You can actually have a good bad day, or at least make it the best bad day that you could possibly have. And to make a bad day a good bad day, you need to kind of take off the metaphorical blinkers. So take a moment to acknowledge where you're at, So what is the reality of your situation, whether you like it or not. What do you have to accept because so often we focus on how we would like things to be different to what they actually are or how we would like to feel. And unless that's a motivating thing for you to take action, it can create this gap between the reality of what is happening and kind of this ideal or this idealism of how you would like it to be. If you can't accept what is right now, both externally with your situation and internally with how you're feeling, you will struggle because you're not facing the truth. And that's where that gap can become really wide. It's okay to feel stressed or sad or frustrated, and you can accept how you're feeling without getting too caught up in it. Allow it to be there. Accepting your internal and your external reality. That is the first step. Then I want you to go outside and look up, so seriously, look up. Look at the birds, Listen to their song, watch the clouds drift by, Feel the air on your skin. So can the sun if the sun's shining. Life is tough. Life is tough, but even in the hardest times there's still joy to experience. So shifting your attention to these small moments of joy can make a huge difference to your well being because what it does is widens your perspective of life right now. So of course it's not going to solve your problems. It's not going to cure anyone. It won't make the hurt go away or make deadlines disappear, but it can give you a little break, a moment of reprieve, this moment of stillness and peace, and it can help you bring your awareness to what is beyond how you're feeling, because it's so easy to have those blinkers on and this is something that our minds and our body craves. So when you're having one of those days, remember to pause, take a deep breath, and accept your reality. Step outside, take in your surroundings. Notice how it shifts your mood, even if it's just a little. So seek out those small moments and let them remind you that there's more to life than the challenges that you're facing. And it's okay to have a bad day or have bad days, but it doesn't have to define you, and it certainly doesn't take away the fact that life can be difficult and life can be a struggle, but it's about finding those little pockets of goodness and holding onto them. So thank you for listening today. I hope this helps you next time you're having a tough day, and remember it's okay to feel what you're feeling, but don't forget to look for the good too, so you can find these moments of peace even when you feel like you're in the middle of a storm. So take care and keep finding the joy in the little things, and I will see you next week.