Do You Convict The Day?

Do You Convict The Day?

I said to my customer, "Do not convict the day!" He was telling me about when he has bad days. Before he even told me why the days were bad, I knew why. The days were bad because he convicted them. If you have bad days too is it because of the same reason?

An extremely negative person convicts the day (says they are having a bad day) after they eat a bad breakfast - or even worse - immediately after waking up on the wrong side of the bed!

Convicting the day at breakfast is uncommon, but do you convict it after four bad things happen to you by midday? If you wait until 5pm and you had terrible things happen to you for 8 hours at work should you not still think it is a good day if you still have a job?

After you convict the day you notice more of the bad things that happen to you and use them to reinforce your theory that you are somehow destined to have everything that can possibly go wrong go wrong, and have no good thing come along.

I would normally come and tell you a joke, but when I ask you how you are and you tell me you are having a bad day, you proceed to tell me why after I ask you.

Then you rehash all the bad things that happened to you which are normally nothing compared to the plight of the starving and homeless, and I forget the joke I had planned to tell you (which would have made you see goodness in my humour at least…).

Even worse, now you have made me feel sorry for you and you have depressed me, making my day worse. So that I do not also have a bad day, I leave you alone in your misery and look elsewhere for goodness in the day.

Days are neither good nor bad, or the same days are either good or bad, depending upon whom you ask, how you look at them, and to which days you compare them. Why not choose to make all of your days good by finding the positive in them? If you must convict the day early, find it innocent (positive) and you will find ample evidence to support your verdict.

And the next time someone tells you they are having a bad day, see if you can find a polite way to challenge them not to convict it! Perhaps you could bring up the possibility of something good happening to them later that same day.