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Run Your Day

 Today I decided to blog about the first thing I saw on Twitter. It was a tweet sent out by Iconic88 stating: “Either you run the day or the day runs you.”, a Jim Rohn quote.

At first glance, I thought it was rather a trite statement, but then I thought about it some more.

We do run through our days, don’t we? It’s the act of running that hit me in this caption. Do we have to run? Why are we motivated to run? Are we behind, or in front of it?

In the middle of writing this blog, I received a frantic phone call from my daughter. Her morning school bus was early, too early. A neighbour-mom was offering to take the entire group to school by car. Since this was only her second day as a student at a new school, she was frantic not to stick out from the crowd. I gave her a few kind words, spoke to the volunteering designated driver, and called the school to advise them of her tardiness. From my perspective, it was all under control. My daughter’s view was, of course, different from mine. Her voice over the phone sounded like she was in the throes of setting up what would play out as a bad day. I wished the best for her in my heart, had faith, and went back to creating my blog.

As I continued writing, I referenced my knowledge and experience with what is called the  ”self-fulfilling prophesy”. I remember studying it in a college course I took some time ago, and the philosophy stuck: set yourself up to have a bad day, and you just may attain it. Stub your toe while running to get the phone, spill wine on your new white carpet, or forget to log that important client meeting in your day planner. In order not to set ourselves up for self-motivated failure, we must realize that these are random events. They are unrelated to any other happenings in your day, and they certainly don’t run you. In the words to my daughter, I gave her a few positive nuggets of inspiration. If she chose to hang on to these, it may set her off on a better path for the day. Sometimes the best we can do is plant hope.

It is quite a simple thing to break the prophesy’s negative cycle. Stop the “woe-is-me” thinking where it start. Take a moment out and have a little self-talk. Ask yourself “Is this rational thinking?” Then tell yourself that you will not be guilty of harvesting these random negative events in order to reap a bad day. This is where you will commit to farm your day in a positive manner.

After studying this a bit more, I have come to the conclusion that as our time passes, we consciously choose to fill in our schedule with activities. It’s the simple act of choosing the content of our day that “runs” it. We move from moment to moment, for the most part, fluidly. We may stub our toes and forget appointments. As humans, we have a tendency to recall the negative aspects of these moments more than the positive. When you sum up the effectiveness of each day, be fair to yourself. Don’t discount the minor successes for the random misfortunes

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New Post has been published on http://www.mywineshopper.com/run-your-day-2.html

Run Your Day

 Today I decided to blog about the first thing I saw on Twitter. It was a tweet sent out by Iconic88 stating: “Either you run the day or the day runs you.”, a Jim Rohn quote.

At first glance, I thought it was rather a trite statement, but then I thought about it some more.

We do run through our days, don’t we? It’s the act of running that hit me in this caption. Do we have to run? Why are we motivated to run? Are we behind, or in front of it?

In the middle of writing this blog, I received a frantic phone call from my daughter. Her morning school bus was early, too early. A neighbour-mom was offering to take the entire group to school by car. Since this was only her second day as a student at a new school, she was frantic not to stick out from the crowd. I gave her a few kind words, spoke to the volunteering designated driver, and called the school to advise them of her tardiness. From my perspective, it was all under control. My daughter’s view was, of course, different from mine. Her voice over the phone sounded like she was in the throes of setting up what would play out as a bad day. I wished the best for her in my heart, had faith, and went back to creating my blog.

As I continued writing, I referenced my knowledge and experience with what is called the  ”self-fulfilling prophesy”. I remember studying it in a college course I took some time ago, and the philosophy stuck: set yourself up to have a bad day, and you just may attain it. Stub your toe while running to get the phone, spill wine on your new white carpet, or forget to log that important client meeting in your day planner. In order not to set ourselves up for self-motivated failure, we must realize that these are random events. They are unrelated to any other happenings in your day, and they certainly don’t run you. In the words to my daughter, I gave her a few positive nuggets of inspiration. If she chose to hang on to these, it may set her off on a better path for the day. Sometimes the best we can do is plant hope.

It is quite a simple thing to break the prophesy’s negative cycle. Stop the “woe-is-me” thinking where it start. Take a moment out and have a little self-talk. Ask yourself “Is this rational thinking?” Then tell yourself that you will not be guilty of harvesting these random negative events in order to reap a bad day. This is where you will commit to farm your day in a positive manner.