If you tell yourself you're going to have a good day, does it work out that way for you?

Before I get out of bed each day, I sit and think about all the good things in my life, and all the lovely things I am going to do that day.
Then I start my day in a happy frame of mind.
Oh and yes, it certainly does work. Try it

No. But, I have the incredible ability to take even the utmost shitty of days and let it bounce off of me without too much pain.

(though in fairness I’ve been dealing with a lot of crippling depression of late…)

Not always (outside forces sometimes interfere) but it’s a jolly good start.

I have tried this and no it hasn’t worked for me. However, I do think that the result lies in whether the sentiment is forced or true… if you really believe you are going to have a good day then you probably will…(you probably already feel good about your day…) but if you just lie there thinking that thinking that you will have a good day will make it happen… when you’re feeling crappy and just want it to change…it won’t…. invariably

It works more times than not for me, but then I’m fairly cheerful by nature. If I know I have unpleasant things to do, I visualize positive methods and outcomes, and often it works.

*Cough! Not always… sometimes even when I don’t even tell myself that it is going to be a good day all of a sudden I happen to have a good day :)

Often yes, but for me I have to tell myself the night before as I go to bed – “tomorrow will be a good day”...

Usually the opposite.

This actually does work. I’ve done it so often, like when I have to go to work that day and for whatever reason (maybe my achey bones are yelling at me or I haven’t slept well etc) I would rather do anything else. I’ll tell myself I will enjoy my shift, nothing will get under my skin, I’m going to smile all shift and it will be a great day, and so far <touch wood> it’s usually worked :-) Positive thinking, gotta love it.

Only if I admit to being deluded… :-/

It usually does work out that way for me. ;)

I absolutely do believe in positive thinking. I believe it’s more likely to propel us (and those with whom we come in contact) to better outcomes than negative thinking.

It works best if I think “I can handle anything today”.....cause I can never guess what my day holds. When I feel confident and upbeat, It always feels like a better day regardless of what happened. The more I can stay in each moment and not stress about yesterday or tomorrow the more likely I am to think of my day as “good”.

For most people, being happy is a choice we make. I wake up every day looking forward to having another happy day.

For some people, there are medical/chemical reasons they can’t make this choice, and for them, there is medication and other treatments that will help.

It depends on the schedule for the day. If I am doing the same-old-same-old, then my day will most likely be neither good nor bad whatever I tell myself beforehand. It’s only when something unexpected happens that the day becomes something other than neutral.

I generally have a good day most days (even when loads of crap things happen), and I’ve never even thought of telling myself that it will be so. The power of positive thinking is largely a myth, though the power of negative thinking most certainly isn’t.