Article 194 - Embracing and Appreciating Each Day

Each new day is an opportunity to start something new, try again, or to start fresh

If we do not like what happened yesterday, or were not particularly proud of our lack of progress and accomplishments, all we need to remember is that new day is our opportunity to try again, our opportunity to start over. That is the beautiful thing about us having 365 days in a year, each day is our opportunity to start over, to work smarter, work harder, to create something new in our life and the lives of others. New day is also our opportunity to change or to create change.

Some of us get discouraged just because something did not go right yesterday, but again that was yesterday, and today is a new day. So, we should be happy and grateful for the opportunity to move forward and create progress regardless how big or small it is every single day. Of course, this would only work if we recognize that new day is an opportunity to start fresh, leaving yesterday behind. If we choose to hold on to our disappointments, mistakes, failures, and negative moments from yesterday, we are limiting our thoughts and what we focus on to what happened in the past.

We all have good and bad days, even when we plan and try really hard to focus on the positive in everything and think positively. Life happens, and we get thrown off our positive state, whether it is because we did something wrong, made a mistake, or because someone ese brought in negativity into our initially positive day. This happens all the time. So, how do we tune our negativity and disruptors from our initially positive and happy day, filled with goals and objectives that we were ready to pursue? In my opinion, there is no way to completely tune out negative situations or bad moments that create disruptions in our day. However, if we just remember that day goes on, life goes on, and everything and everyone has an opportunity to change things for a better by introducing optimism and positivity into a mix, we can move on knowing that everything is going to be alright, if not now, then later in the day or the next day. If we do that, then even hardest and the most challenging days would be met and managed much easier than before. Instead of talking about and dwelling on what went wrong on any given day, start talking and thinking about things that went well, any small wins, accomplishments, and/or progress made are certainly worth highlighting.

Start each day genuinely believing that it will be a good day, and even when faced with challenges, keep positive focus whenever possible, and do not let any negative moment or situation consume your positively focused mindset. Even when things do not go according to plan, which happens often, do not get discouraged, remember that tomorrow is a new day and new fresh and positive start. There are plenty of days in one year to start over, start new, and create happy and memorable moments.