Take Your Pick: Good Day or Bad Day

Every day you have a choice: Will it be a good day or a bad one?

It really IS up to you. You can’t control the external circumstances of your life — the bad news, the interruptions, the unexpected problems, various quandaries, etc. — but you can control your response to them.

You can also plan your day for success and organize it for productivity. And you can practice certain habits every day to ensure that, in the long run at least, you will achieve wealth, health, and happiness.

Recently, I came across the following table. I don’t remember who put it together, but I thought it was a likable idea — a menu of your daily “choices” — and thought you might like it too.

I changed it considerably from the original (which was too “New Age” for my taste) and added a lot of classic ETR items.

I warn you — this is light intellectual fare. If, after eating all day yesterday, you are still in the mood for a prime-rib sort of message, you won’t find it here. PC, a member of our ETR team, said it reminded him “of a lot of the forwarded garbage I get by e-mail.” Everybody else liked it.

I hope you like it too. If you do, send it along to a friend or two.