Do you ever have days where you just don\u2019t feel good, but you still have a million things to get done?\u00a0 Yeah\u2026today was one of those days for me.\u00a0 I have been getting over a miserable sinus cold that has lasted over a week now and I woke up this morning feeling yucky yet again. I had to get up at 5:30am and be ready to leave my house by 6:30am this morning for a meeting I had downtown that started at 7:30am.\u00a0 Meetings at 7:30am should be illegal!\u00a0 Seriously\u2026way too early to start a meeting! Anyway, it was a crazy, crazy day with one meeting after another and all I wanted to do is go crawl into my bed and go to sleep so I could feel better.\u00a0 But crawling into bed just wasn\u2019t an option.\u00a0 So I did the only thing I could do\u2026I powered through it.<\/p>\n
Life is full of days for all of us like the one I had today – where the only thing you can do is to power through them. What I have found is that when days like that come along the worst thing I can do is to keep thinking to myself how miserable I am, because that only makes me feel worse.\u00a0 I have found that the best thing I can do when I have days like today is to simply power through them, knocking one thing out after another and just keep telling myself that powering through it is the quickest way to get where I can climb into my bed again.\u00a0 Then I just go to work and focus entirely on getting things done and I don\u2019t let myself think about how yucky I feel.<\/p>\n
On days like that I also remind myself that \u201cI can do this.\u00a0 I have done it before, and I will have to do it again, so just keep moving forward.\u201d\u00a0 A quote I love is:<\/p>\n
\u201cOn particular rough days when I\u2019m sure I can\u2019t possibly endure, I like to remind myself that my track record for getting through bad days so far is 100% and that is pretty good.\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n That quote applies to all of us. We are clearly capable of handling bad days because we are all still here and we are still moving forward.\u00a0 I will end today\u2019s blog with my other favorite \u2018bad day\u2019 quote which is this:<\/p>\n \u201cSometimes you just have to put on Lip Gloss and pretend to be psyched!\u201d<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0 – Mindy Kaling<\/p>\n And so if I wake up feeling sick again tomorrow that is exactly what I intend to do. Hopefully pretending to be psyched won\u2019t be necessary because I will wake up feeling fantastically healthy again.\u00a0 But either way, Lip Gloss will definitely be on \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n Have an awesome day everyone!<\/p>\n ~Amy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Do you ever have days where you just don\u2019t feel good, but you still have a million things to get done?\u00a0 Yeah\u2026today was one of those days for me.\u00a0 I have been getting over a miserable sinus cold that has lasted over a week now and I woke up this morning feeling yucky yet again. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3687,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[248,168,174,46,251,163,5064,4422,615,5059,5063,897,38,64,5061,1643,53,545,5065,3060,5062,5067,112,359,362,149,3138,5066],"class_list":["post-5017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-ability","tag-adversity","tag-anxiety","tag-attitude","tag-balance","tag-courage","tag-early","tag-endurance","tag-endure","tag-fake-it","tag-feeling-miserable","tag-illness","tag-leadership","tag-life","tag-lip-gloss","tag-meetings","tag-motivation","tag-move-forward","tag-power-through","tag-pretend","tag-psyched","tag-rough-days","tag-self-improvement","tag-sick","tag-sinus-cold","tag-success","tag-wake-up","tag-yucky"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5017"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5017\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5022,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5017\/revisions\/5022"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}