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“How To Make Everyday A Good Day”
Introduction
The common problem, or reality, that a majority of us will eventually face is that every new day is simply unexpected, or unpredictable. There’s no telling what’ll happen today, or tomorrow, or a week from now, or a year from now.
Life is completely, and entirely unpredictable. It’s like the weather. Sure, there’s forecasts and reasonable predictions that are going to be made; and sometimes, they’re accurate predictions. However, other times, they’re completely wrong. You expected a day to be great, to be fantastic, or to just be good. However, it wasn’t like that at all.
Instead, it was so bad that somehow, through some way, you wish you could just skip the full day and start a new one; where, hopefully, you’ll be happier and more fulfilled. But, even if you did do that, the next day, you realized, also sucked just as bad. Despite waiting for the “new day” to come, it was a wait that did not pay off.
In this article, we’ll show you how to deal with that.
How Our Minds Work
Let me get this straight. I won’t be providing any scientific evidence or claims to support what I’ll say. Therefore, please take the advice given with a grain of salt.
Our minds are astoundingly complex, where everyday, we still continue to ask questions with respect to its function and how it’s able to do what it does on a daily basis. If you think I’m lying, ask yourself: how in the world are you able to think, comprehend, and be aware of your surroundings? Sure, there’s components to our brain that makes that possible, but how does that specific part of your brain actually able to do that? How is it able to give us the ability to think, to do stuff automatically and manually? What gives us that ability?
Behind these questions, you have a striking truth: it probably doesn’t even matter. It might interest you, but the answer doesn’t change your situation. So what if X and Y are responsible for the function Z? I’m still unhappy and I can’t go on with my life knowing that I’m meant for more!
Yeah, okay, now that’s clear. But the thing you need to understand really is that you already know what defines your brain’s basic functionality and somewhat-inner gears. You need to eat, breather, drink water, move, get sunlight, interact in social environments, and just be human. You need to know more, sense dangers and recognize trustworthy people, and discover new things that you didn’t know previously. Most importantly, for many, you need to be what you were always meant to be.
You don’t need to be wealthy, or know everyone in the room, or be respected by this person and this person and that other person standing over there in the distance. You only need to be you. For some, this means being happy. For others, it’s always staying determined and concentrating all focus whenever possible on a goal.
Our mind works best when we work towards an ultimate achievement. Our mind works the poorest when there’s no motive, no reason, no reward.
Give Yourself A Reason
Give yourself a reason to keep on going. That’s probably the most important piece of advice you’ll take in from this post, and I want you to know that. Everyday will be a mission at some points in your life. At some points, it will be so easy and seamless. Other times, it will be so unbearably difficult that you just want to tap out, give up, and admit that it was all for nothing and that you failed; and there’s nothing you can do.
Stop thinking that way. That’s the train-of-thought that got you into this mess in the first place.
If you want every new day that comes to be good, maybe not great or fantastic (because, I’ll be completely honest, it’s really hard to achieve), you need to check this basic requirement. You need a reason to keep on going everyday, even when it sucks. In many cases, you’ll have to do it for months, and potentially for years until you can reach the position that leaves you happy and fulfilled.
Happiness, family, and fulfillment is what drives close to everybody that pursues a passion. Never forget that without these core three, you might never be capable of living every new day knowing that: sure, tomorrow might be the exact same, or suck equally as much, but at least I get to enjoy today, and live knowing that, one day, I’ll be in the position that I want to be in.
That mentality will set you miles ahead of everyone. Sometimes, it’s not about what you’ve done or where you are, but what you can do, and where you will be.
Make Everyday Worth Cherishing
If you have the core three, and have ingrained the understanding that your days, which although might seem insignificant now, will matter in the future, you’ve just complete step 1 – the hardest step of the collection.
By this point, before congratulating yourself, I want you to do one more thing: I want you to document and record.
This can be done with a journal or your phone. Either one works; only that: if you use your phone, you’ll probably take up a lot of storage very quickly, so I wouldn’t recommend it.
Anyways, the side mission is: record everything. As every day passes, record something new that you’ve discovered. It doesn’t have to be that important, just note it down. Document the weather, temperature, enjoyable and unenjoyable things you did, new people you met, and anything else that you think future you, who will eventually look over those, will be proud of seeing. You’ll have mined gold if it’s good enough to make you shed a tear or two in a few years to come.
And for the memories and things that have happened in your day that are more significant and that might resemble some sort of actually notable achievement, record it using your phone or camera. Don’t edit it. Just leave it how it is. Ideally, for easy access, you can store these in your Google drive or Dropbox, and dedicate these memories into a single folder. Leave them there, and in a few years, come back to them only once you’ve accomplished your ultimate goal.
If you follow my advice, your actions will mean the moon for you. Don’t thank me, thank yourself.
Make Everyday Better Than The Last
This is a feat I have yet to reach, and therefore, I will admit this: this is not easy. And for close to 99% of people, I would never recommend it. Setting a goal you can never achieve, that meets this kind of standard, might have you feeling worse than you actually do, and always feeling short when you’re doing more than fine.
However, if you’re confident, and up for the challenge, there’s only one real thing that you can change that you haven’t done already: take things to the next level.
Your life is like a maze, you can always end up going down the wrong or right path, leading to the final destination. You can make everyday better by fully accepting your errors and mistakes and embracing them, loving the pain so much that you look forward to it. You miss when you aren’t doing it, but enjoy when you are. You’ve reached a state of mind where the only option, only setting in your brain is to keep on going at it everyday until forever; because, there is no end to the journey.
The only way to make the struggle a producer of dopamine is to dig the understanding so deep that it will rest and lay there until the day you make it, or forever. Your journey to the top continues, and until you’re there, this is what you’re left to do. Make life a constant grind, like a quest in a game, a mission that has only one ending: success.
Now, there are no bad days. Now, that term no longer exists in your dictionary. There are only good days, and better days. The best day is the day your life’s goal has finally been, accomplished.
Conclusion
With the advice provided in this post, I hope that you’ve learned something useful and applicable. The best part about life is its enjoyment, and its molding from a radioactive, and hard-to-bear nature, to something that you can’t wait to look forward to everyday.
