What’s Your Pick-Me-Up?

Some days are bet­ter than oth­ers.  It’s just a nat­ural part of being human.  We have our “on” days and we have our “off” days.

Yes­ter­day started as an “on” day for me…but for some rea­son I started feel­ing a lit­tle blue right after lunch.  I blame the clouds that came in dur­ing the after­noon, forc­ing me to take my lunch inside and to put on a sweat­shirt.  That always makes me a lit­tle crabby.

But don’t worry.  I fixed my prob­lem imme­di­ately.  Want to know what I did?

I took a Strengths­Finder test.

After 35 min­utes of answer­ing ques­tions, I received a computer-generated report with detailed infor­ma­tion about how cool and tal­ented I am.  Who wouldn’t cheer up after that?

We all get down from time to time, but it is how we choose to pick our­selves up that makes the dif­fer­ence.  It may be that you always feel bet­ter after a run. You may feel more chip­per after lunch with a friend. Or for you, it might take a reminder of the WHY behind what you do.

What­ever the “fix,” just know that dark days will come, but if you have a good plan to make them lighter you can decrease the amount of time you feel crabby.  And the bet­ter you feel, the bet­ter equipped you are to take on chal­lenges and pour into the lives of those you care about.

I think I will print up that Strengths­Finder report and carry it with me, so no mat­ter where I am or how down I feel, I will always have a pick-me-up right in my back pocket.