Speaker B explains how to avoid letting work stress hijack your emotions and ruin your evening at home. The key is reframing a bad day as just a bad moment, so negative feelings stay isolated rather than coloring everything. You get to choose how much emotional weight you carry home.
Differently, you say you want to emotionally win the day. Talk to me about that.
Yeah, so emotionally win the day just means that I want to maintain my personal freedom throughout the day. I don't want to be emotionally hijacked. That's what I mean by that. And so emotionally win the day means that when I get home at the end of the night, I don't want to feel like I had a bad day. I don't want the not-so-good experiences to follow me home, right? I want to be able to, by the time I get home with my family and the thing— and the things that's really the most important to everybody, right, your personal life— I want to be present and available to enjoy that. Mm-hmm. So many people make it to their homes at the end of the workday and they're not available for those that matter the most because they've been emotionally hijacked, you know. And I like to help people with a power perspective, and I ask this question quite often: have you ever had a bad day before? Right? And people, most people think it'd be like, yeah, I had a bad day before. But when you think about it from the power perspective, it's like, you know, there's a lot of minutes in a day, right? Yeah. There's several hours in the day. Like, you was, you were mad all day, right? All day was bad? And when people think about it, it's like No, and it's like you didn't have a bad day, you had a bad moment that you focused on all day.
I was literally kicked off a Southwest flight before for being disrespectful.
