{"id":6574,"date":"2014-06-10T20:34:27","date_gmt":"2014-06-11T00:34:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/blissblog\/?p=6574"},"modified":"2014-06-11T21:39:30","modified_gmt":"2014-06-12T01:39:30","slug":"whose-day-is-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/blissblog\/2014\/06\/whose-day-is-it.html","title":{"rendered":"Whose Day Is It?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/scontent-a-lga.xx.fbcdn.net\/hphotos-xaf1\/t1.0-9\/s403x403\/10414524_779282655438697_7749416900650310614_n.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: Today's mantra for you...\" width=\"429\" height=\"367\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I imagine you have heard someone utter these words or likely even said them yourself:\u00a0 <em>&#8220;Today just isn&#8217;t my day.&#8221;<\/em> Whenever those sounds would pass through my ears, my immediate thought (and I have said this to people) was &#8220;Well,\u00a0I would really like to know\u00a0whose day it is and what have they done with yours?&#8221; Reactions have ranged from bewilderment to laughter and &#8220;Oh, you got me,&#8221;\u00a0 looks on their faces.<\/p>\n<p>Oftentimes, people are caught up in a belief system that tells them that things need to be a certain way to be acceptable. The litany in their heads might sound like this: &#8220;The sun needs to be shining,\u00a0folks need to do what I want them to do, traffic needs to be flowing, the perfect parking spot needs to be waiting for me wherever I go, the check that was supposed to be in the mail must arrive, I\u00a0have to be\u00a0entertained so I&#8217;m not bored,&#8221; and so on,\u00a0\u00a0or\u00a0they may just believe\u00a0<strong>their<\/strong> day went the way of all winds.<\/p>\n<p>While we may not be able to have any control over the events of said day, we are <strong><em>always <\/em><\/strong>at choice about how we face them; if indeed we are conscious of what is going on as well as the thoughts and feelings that accompany them. Whenever things don&#8217;t go according to my well considered plans, I do my best to take a step back and contemplate options. I could get frustrated or angry, disappointed or distraught. I could also ask myself one of my favorite questions:\u00a0 &#8220;Now what?&#8221;\u00a0 From that jumping off point comes all kinds of options as I allow Spirit to direct me. It usually has much better ideas about what might be even better than what I had planned in the first place.<\/p>\n<p>I look back on the relationships that shifted in undesired ways that left the door open for new people to show up in my life. I think about the various jobs I applied for that I didn&#8217;t get that allowed me to do much of what I am doing now. I consider the various health crises I went through last year and am grateful (really I am!) that they occurred as wake up calls that shook me out of complacency.<\/p>\n<p>Each day that I choose happiness and allow life to do its thang , even in the face of challenge, it truly is my day.<\/p>\n<p>Photo credit- <a title=\"Brendon Burchard\" href=\"http:\/\/brendonburchard.com\" target=\"_blank\">Brendon Burchard<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I imagine you have heard someone utter these words or likely even said them yourself:\u00a0 &#8220;Today just isn&#8217;t my day.&#8221; Whenever those sounds would pass through my ears, my immediate thought (and I have said this to people) was &#8220;Well,\u00a0I would really like to know\u00a0whose day it is and what have they done with yours?&#8221;&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":233,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,1,2,13,19,3,14,16,7,38,6],"tags":[3839,3105],"class_list":["post-6574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-affirmations","category-attracting-what-you-desire","category-bliss","category-blissfull-thinking","category-empowerment","category-gratitude","category-how-to-invite-bliss","category-my-personal-bliss","category-re-creating-your-life","category-transformation","category-visualization","tag-edie-weinstein-brendon-burchard","tag-success"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Whose Day Is It? 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