Life is about the experiences! Life is about the experiences! Life is about the experiences! Life is about experiences! Life is about experiences! Life is about experiences!
Did you notice that not once did I say that the experience has to be negative or positive? Experiences come in success or failure, positive or negative and growth or growth (ha, ha...there is only one direction and that is up via growth!).
One of the fastest ways to get the most out of your day and your experiences is the consistent evaluation of your day.
When you live in accordance with a Make It Count Lifestyle you thrive in the nightly conversations of Sunny or Cloudy!
Sunny - What happened today that was incredible, awesome and went well.
Cloudy - What didn't go well, a failure, sadness and something that bothers your mindset more than it should.
Take a second right now and think about yesterday! What immediately comes to mind as far as what went well and what didn't. Our minds more often than not gravitate to the negative, bad or unfortunate events. This then typically has the repercussion of stress, why me and a carry over to todays journey.
The Cloudy in our day eventually does exactly what clouds do...they cover us from the sun or the blessings that are right in front of us.
Great example is lets say on Tuesday you loose a big sale. The stress overwhelms you, the desire to quit becomes larger and you can't get over what happened. Wednesday starts and instead of waking with an attitude of accomplishment you are still holding on to Tuesday's loss. What could have been done different to increase your production on Wednesday? An evaluation of your Sunny and Cloudy on Tuesday before bed would have set you up for future success. That evaluation allows you to figure out what happened and realize was it within your control or not. This release frees you of carry over stress. This release gives you the chance to start fresh consistently.
Stress, failure, loss, grief or cloudy days/events will happen as its part of the human process. It is however up to us to process and see what we can do to cope, grow, accept and move on. Sitting down with yourself, family or friends and working through your day can help us see what we need to do in order to wake up the next day and crush it!
In the sales example. A simple evaluation could have identified that you did not take care of the client every day. You expected an easy sale and did not cater to the clients needs so they moved on.
Everything starts with an experience just being an event and from there we decide if its a sunny and cloudy.
The key to recognizing our definition of sunny and cloudy is in a pure evaluation of where our mindset lies. If you are judging more events as cloudy than you may be in a fixed mindset versus if the sunny opportunities are lining up out the door then you may be in a stage of growth mindset.
At the end of the day the key is personal evaluation of your internal representation of your day.
Sunny or cloudy the end goal is to always have a present time focus on what is progressing in your life!
Now get off the computer and go Make It Count!
