Are you going to have a good day?

One man who's name escapes me at the moment once said that he makes up his mind what sort of a day he is going to have when he makes his bed in the morning.  I personally believe this is a sound philosophy to have, and a good habit to get into.  No-one (I believe) actually goes to the trouble of having a bad day, where nothing goes right and everything goes wrong.  They do not wake up in a morning and say to themselves.  I am going to have an awesomely ordinary day today.  Everything I touch will today turn to dust, and I will stress out and cause pain and anxiety to those people around me.  Yet that is what sometimes happens.  We might not actually verbalise those thoughts, yet deep down we are thinking them, or things like them. 

• I really don't like my job - it's boring.
• I don't want to go to work today, I'm tired
• I don't like the people that I work with, they never do what they're supposed to, whilst I work my butt off and what thanks do I get - nothing.
• I have a project/piece of work that has to be done today and I know that I'm going to be constantly interrupted. 
• I hate the drive into work, the other drivers are so rude. 

Go on, how many times have you thought things like this and then weren't surprised when things happened in exactly the way that you thought that they would? 

Then consider this.  If you reap what you sow, surely it stands to reason that if you put out all that negative energy by your negative thoughts, then how on earth are you going to have a "good day?" You have already dressed yourself in your negative suit of armour and are dragging doubt, fear and anxiety around behind you on a leash.  Of course nothing good is going to happen to you today - it can't get past the barriers that you've surrounded yourself with.

Imagine yourself with a big grey storm cloud above your head.  I'm sure you've all seen the cartoons.  How do you expect the sun to shine down on you if that is following you around?  You are expecting rain and boy are you going to get it.  And not only are you going to get wet, but you are also going to develop that rheumatism you knew you would end up with before you reached the age of 50.

Most people pay lip service to the positive things around them, they no longer appreciate the good things that they have and can only think of all those things that they still have to do, and really ought to obtain. For these kinds of people, not only is the glass half empty, someone wants the glass back. 
Jnl entry march 2005