Have you ever experienced a morning that just didn’t start quite the way you thought it would?
You hit the snooze button, you think you are getting extra time in bed then you started the day off on the wrong foot, maybe you stub your toe and it set up the rest of the day to just suck. The morning sets the tone for the rest of the day!
Maybe you spilled coffee all over yourself right before you’re walking out the door or you left the coffee mug on top of the car and backed out of the driveway and fell off and spilled all over the place. How many rough mornings like these have you experienced:
- The alarm was set for PM not AM and you were late
- Stubbed your toe walking around the bed
- Hit the snooze button more than three times
- Coffee didn’t brew at the right time
- Got a speeding ticket on the way to work
- Kids missed the bus
- Kids forgot their lunch
Yeah, I think we’ve all had those days.
You see we’ve even had those weeks where Sunday or Monday kicked it off on the wrong foot maybe you got a ticket driving to work where you missed one of your kid’s practices and it set the tone for the week and you just had a rough week. You get to the end of the week and you are just fried saying, “Holy crap this week kicked my ass!”
Yeah…I’ve had a couple of those.
Hell, I’ve had months like that!
It was just a rough month that everything seems to just stack up and everything seemed to be against me. I’ve even heard people talk about a rough year and they can’t wait for this one to be over. They wish the year was over… they look back on all the experiences, all the negative things that are stacking up and wish away six or seven months. They feel that there was nothing they could do about it, bad things just kept on happening.
We all get to choose what it is we focus on, but when we have mornings that start off on the wrong foot and we stay focused that, our thoughts continue to swirl around how mad or frustrated we are. Sometimes we even take it as a sign, a sign of how things are going to go for the day.
Now we are projecting that forward and as we focus on it, more and more our thoughts swirl around it, and our feelings of aggravation, frustration, and stress continue to build. It becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy, that’s what we see more and more of when we do that throughout a day.
Hoping that the next day is going to get better but we’re still focused on what frustrated us the day before. The more we think about it, the more upset we get, the more we focus on it, and as the saying goes, where the focus goes energy flows.
We can build a day that we never wanted and that day turns into a week, those weeks to turn into months and finally, months turn into years. This is how people end up having a rough life.
This all started because of how we woke up
and stubbed our toe?!?!?!?
This is your start your morning in … “The F.A.S.T. Lane”
Frustrated – Anxious – Stressed – Tired