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Every now and then you are going to land on a bad day. Here are nine of my tried and tested tips for turning a bad day upside down:

1. Remove yourself from the situation:  If you are having a bad day because of a particular situation, try removing yourself from the situation for a little while. If you are at work, take a break and enjoy the scenery around your office or go browse at a bookstore on your lunch break. If you are at home, change the room you are in or go outside. Do something to switch up where the bad situation is so you do not sit and stew in it.
2. Take a universe guided time out:  Give yourself a certain amount of time from five minutes to an hour. Turn off all of the distractions that you have around you and let yourself be guided by the universe. Make a collage; Go on a walk;  Do some meditation or whatever it is you feel that the universe is pushing and hinting at you to do.
3. Get moving:  Do some form of physical activity whether it is a sequence of your favourite yoga poses or dancing to your favourite tunes. My favourite get moving activity is to turn up the music really loud and just let my body dance it out.
4. Do something luxurious for yourself:  Indulge in a specialty food item you have been wanting to try; take a nap; buy yourself a bouquet of your favourite flowers; treat yourself to tea at your favourite cafe; take a bath with a Lush bath bomb; get a manicure or pedicure; rent a TV show you have been wanting to watch; buy yourself a new book or something else that tickles your fancy.
5. Cultivate a dream:  Pick one of the dreams that you have a spend fifteen minutes thinking about all the possibilities related to the dream. If you dream of owning a house, think of what the house will look like, where it will be located, what you will decorate it with and the color schemes that you will use. Let your imagination run wild. The possibilities are endless.
6. Reach out for support:  Email your partner and let the know you are having a rough day;  call your best friend and have a gab fest about nothing in particular or get in touch with a loved one that you have been meaning to reach out to.
7. Write it out: Dedicate some time to writing in your journal about your feelings related to your bad day. After you have written it all out try and see if there are some themes. If you notice a theme, is there anything that you can do to prevent another bad day from happening? Is this something that keeps on happening? Perhaps it is time to take a deeper look at what is causing these bad days.
8. Do something that makes you smile: Read your favourite magazine; browse the Tumblr for clothing by your favourite fashion designer; search for your favourite comedian on Youtube; create your dream outfit on Polyvore; or  take pictures of all of the things that inspire you.
9. Focus on the positive: write out a list of all of the things in your life that you are thankful for. When I am having a particularly bad day, I like to get out my pink pen and write on a blank page of my journal the numbers 1-100. After I write out all of the numbers, I fill them in with all of the things that have made me smile in the last little while. This exercise always puts a smile on my face and reminds me to put the bad day that I am  having in to perspective.

What about you lovelies? How do you handle your bad days?

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