How to Hack Your Bad Days into Good Ones

Some days are just terrible.  You get in a bad mood, there is not enough time, and you feel like crap.  Why?  The best way to figure out how to avoid bad days is to analyze what made your good days so good and repeat that.  What makes a day great is actually a combination of factors over the previous couple of days:

• Stress (arguing, traffic, significant other, too much to do.)
• Caffeine (gives you artificial energy that you have to pay for later.)
• Travel (causes even more stress.)
• Exercise (intensity and/or duration.)
• Food (type and volume.)
• Sleep.

Keep a daily log of these factors and you will start to see a pattern.  The pattern reveals the problem, and now you can start working of fixing the real issue.