Getting a Running Start on the Day

It may be a rainy, gray day; it may have been a slow commute; it may have be an unfavorable comment or evaluation.

Whatever the cause, the result is the same. Your starting your day feeling down.

To prevent your negativity from reducing your output throughout the day, start each day by making a list of six positive things you did the previous day.

You'll find your negativity disappearing, and your enthusiasm building, as you see that--no matter how badly the previous day might have gone--you probably accomplished more than you thought you had.