Deal With Bad Days: How Successful People Handle Them

Mike March 22, 2022, INTERESTING TOPICS

I had a bad day. Ok, it was more tragic than bad. Recently I had a very close friend die. She died on a Monday, was buried that Thursday and I returned to work full-time on the next Monday. I find it difficult to deal with bad days.

Full-time strikes me as a funny phrase in this situation.

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I am working full-time if you do not count the time that my mind wanders. I just watched my friend’s daughter and son bury their mother — how could I think clearly? The outpouring of support has been tremendous. Sarah was a powerful, well-known force. She was a leader in many non-profit groups and created innovative speech therapy training programs for a local School District.

Here are just a few of the kind words that people have shared:

I am in tears, and that is ok. May her memory be a blessing. This is the time to mix it with work. Thank you for sharing her fight. She beat cancer not because she did not pass (we all will eventually), but because she chooses to live while she was here!

The following comment hit me the hardest though. It was a bit different from the others and reminded me that even successful people have miserable days:

Work is a great way of channeling emotion into fantastic outputs. It doesn’t always work of course — we…