How to Fix a Bad Morning – Relationship Tip of the Day

 

How to Fix a Bad Morning – This is How It All Started

 So the morning went totally sideways.

You got up later than you meant to.

You walked away from the breakfast table all mad because what you thought you agreed on the night before didn’t actually happen.

Burned your mouth while you were trying to sip your coffee, hoping and needing to get a quick infusion of caffeine into your system as fast as possible before your nine o’clock meeting

She said she was on board.

You got to your desk and attempted to work only to be interrupted what seemed like a hundred times in an hour.

How is anyone supposed to get anything accomplished?

 

How to Fix a Bad Morning – Then This HAPPENED

You were short with her.

She was short with you.

Said things you didn’t mean.

You both sort of growled at the children.

Now to think of it – for no particular reason.

How are we able to fit so much negativity into such a short period of time?

What a crappy day this is gonna be.

 

How to Fix a Bad Morning – End all, be all NOT

Is this you today?

Or was this you yesterday or the day before?

I’ve been there, trust me.

Here’s the good news.

It doesn’t have to.

It doesn’t have to be a crappy day at all.

 

How to Fix a Bad Start of the Day – Here’s the Trick

Try this next time – I call it Pushing the Restart Button.

(You may know it as the Reset button.)

And the beauty of it is this only needs to be done by one of you.

Only one of you needs to catch it –

Only one – and either one of you really – needs to notice what’s been going on – that you are off.

Or you got up on the wrong side of the bed.

Started out on the wrong foot that day.

And all you need to do is call it.

Even if you don’t exactly know what is happening.

 

How to Fix a Bad Morning – Say This Instead

Hey honey, I’m sorry – I don’t even really know what happened – can we start over?

Can we hit the restart button?

It helps if you lean in a little.

It goes a long way.

Just pretend to walk in again and say ‘good morning’ with a smile on your face.

You may not be able to rewind and erase the morning and all that happened- but you do have the power to stop it from becoming a crappy day and limiting it to a few hours in the morning.

Try it.

And let me know how it goes.

 

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