Yesterday sucked

Yesterday sucked.

It was a Monday - never a good start. It was the start of another quarantine week, the novelty beginning to wear off, the thought that this might go on for more than few weeks starting to settle in. In New York it was raining and bitter cold, a drop of more than 20 degrees. All day it was dark.

It was hard to get into work. Everyone had an attitude, including my dog. She was a real pain in the ass yesterday. She basically threw a shit fit because we left for an hour to go to Whole Foods. We returned to a bunch of chewed up items including her sometimes favorite, the remote. She (and we) never fully recovered from that incident.

What else…

Elliott was in a mood. Work was driving him nuts.

My legs hurt when I was riding my Peloton and then so did my lungs because I’m probably getting over Covid and because cycling is basically the only exercise I have to do right now.

I didn’t get as much done as I wanted to.

One of our coaching clients was getting nervous about a budget meeting.

Westworld was meh.

I’m writing this to you because you might need to hear it. Because your day might have sucked yesterday or it might suck today or in a few days or next week.

And I want you to know that is okay.

You’re entitled to feel how you feel. No matter how things are relative to others (I’m well aware that most of the stuff that “sucked” about yesterday is also stuff I am super grateful for. That many people have tremendously bigger issues than I do).

You will wake up the day after your bad day, or two days later, or five days later. The sun will be shining and you will appreciate it. You will do what you need to do to have a good day: have a good meditation, set an intention that colors the way you look at the world, get a workout in, have a win at work, eat something that makes you happy, tell someone you love them and hear it in return, hug your family tight.

You will learn, slowly but surely, that bad days pass. That good days follow. That if you hold on long enough, you’ll feel better. And that you do have a say in the matter, no matter what’s going on outside.

A reminder, for anyone who needs it.

x