- Start your day with your favorite beverage. If that beverage is alcoholic you may want to save that for later in the day but a good cup of coffee or tea made just the right way or gotten from your favorite coffee shop is a winner!
- Take a walk or run outside!!! Even if the weather is less than perfect (which is about 90% of the time where I currently live) there is something about getting out in the great outdoors that turns my sad into glad.
- Have a good long cry and pity party. Then toss the kleenex in the trash, declare that it is a new moment in time and move on!
- Call a trusted friend. Sometimes you just need to hear a friendly voice and reconnect with another human being who understands you.
- Turn up the music LOUD! This never seems to lose its charm for me—it works, trust me! Even if it is a sad song with sad memories it will allow you to embrace the emotions of the day and move on!
- Eat ice cream. No more explanation needed here!
- Read a book. Start in on one that you have been meaning to read forever and just dig in.
- Look for something that you lost or misplaced. This will definitely redirect your attention!
- Clean something. Once again –redirected attention tends to make one feel better. The satisfaction of having something clean or cleaned out is a physical activity that actually shows tangible proof of change and effort when completed.
- Do something nice for someone else. Focus outward instead of inward. Allowing time to wallow in your own funkiness for a bit is fine and understandable but for long lasting satisfaction and the chance to turn a cruddy day into something terrific there is nothing like doing something for someone else. It absolutely works!
April 25, 2013
