Godfather
Well-known member
Ok FE Society Members,
You all know what a shitty day looks like, feels like, smells like, so should we share what we do about it?
I’m willing to wager it’s a 1% condition at best the folks who post on their favorite social channels, “hey, today sucked”. Yet we all know life is a distribution curve of experiences, from crap to average to amazing. I believe the Lord gave us bad days so the great days have context and just feel way better.
In full disclosure, my organization has come to accept my use of certain days of the week as descriptors of good and bad, along with a bazillion other often used platitudes, phrases, many of which are socially insensitive and likely against prevailing laws and norms. You guessed it, bad is “fucking Monday material” and good is “I’d buy that twice on Tuesday”.
I’ll lead with my chin here and say what I do when it’s been a less than stellar day.
I’ve got to feed my brain, my soul, my aspiration, and my recollection.
Brain - I go for a long walk, hike, hit the gym, hit the punching bag, anything that creates some endorphins flowing back in to the system.
Soul - I go find a friend, my soul mate, or if needed go it alone, and go find a few minutes of pleasure, like a swim in the ocean, a view of the sunset, ten well placed rounds in sequence at the range, but something that generates a smile.
Aspiration - I’ll spend a minute, or two, contemplating an adventure, a challenge, an objective, that I want to achieve, and add to my planning and progress to that effect.
Recollection - I’ll journal a short page, usually not recounting the bad but often siting the stoics and memorializing a prompt to be better. Ok, if it’s a REALLY SHITTY DAY I might write a name in the page reserved for people I will kill if I get terminal cancer or something like that where I’m going out anyway and might as well eliminate their evil from the face of the planet, I hold a high bar here, current list is two folks, when it hits five I execute even without the medical prognosis.
So, while I hope all of you don’t have shitty days, you probably do, and when you do, what do you do about it?
You all know what a shitty day looks like, feels like, smells like, so should we share what we do about it?
I’m willing to wager it’s a 1% condition at best the folks who post on their favorite social channels, “hey, today sucked”. Yet we all know life is a distribution curve of experiences, from crap to average to amazing. I believe the Lord gave us bad days so the great days have context and just feel way better.
In full disclosure, my organization has come to accept my use of certain days of the week as descriptors of good and bad, along with a bazillion other often used platitudes, phrases, many of which are socially insensitive and likely against prevailing laws and norms. You guessed it, bad is “fucking Monday material” and good is “I’d buy that twice on Tuesday”.
I’ll lead with my chin here and say what I do when it’s been a less than stellar day.
I’ve got to feed my brain, my soul, my aspiration, and my recollection.
Brain - I go for a long walk, hike, hit the gym, hit the punching bag, anything that creates some endorphins flowing back in to the system.
Soul - I go find a friend, my soul mate, or if needed go it alone, and go find a few minutes of pleasure, like a swim in the ocean, a view of the sunset, ten well placed rounds in sequence at the range, but something that generates a smile.
Aspiration - I’ll spend a minute, or two, contemplating an adventure, a challenge, an objective, that I want to achieve, and add to my planning and progress to that effect.
Recollection - I’ll journal a short page, usually not recounting the bad but often siting the stoics and memorializing a prompt to be better. Ok, if it’s a REALLY SHITTY DAY I might write a name in the page reserved for people I will kill if I get terminal cancer or something like that where I’m going out anyway and might as well eliminate their evil from the face of the planet, I hold a high bar here, current list is two folks, when it hits five I execute even without the medical prognosis.
So, while I hope all of you don’t have shitty days, you probably do, and when you do, what do you do about it?
