If I do any of these things, I usually end up having a bad day:
- Skip my morning run
- Start my day before reviewing my list of priorities
- End my day without reviewing progress against those priorities
- Have a day full of meetings
- Create nothing (usually related to the day-full-of-meetings thing)
- Only have work conversations with co-workers during the day
- Talk to an asshole
- Let self-doubt creep in (related to the asshole-thing?)
- Spend the entire day indoors
- Read literally anything about the current President or upcoming election
- Open Morning Reader more than 2 or 3 times during the day (usually means I don’t know what to do and am spiraling)
- Drink the night before
A surefire way to make sure I have a good day is to avoid having a bad day, so today I’m going to have a good day.