How to turn a shitty day into something good

This week started bad. Loads of worrying, no proper sleep for a couple of days, and some kind of bug physically. In short, I've been far below 100%. Thursday, I got home from work. Tired. I went for a walk instead of a run. I decided that my body might do good with a short break from running, but I still need the movement. Got back to shower, and still tired. Grumpy. Moody. Feeling sorry for myself. In the shower, I thought about the mood, and how it'd bothered me for almost a week. Noticed it. And decided to let go of the bad juju. Stop it. I had enough. Sometimes that works. Just getting fed up. Sometimes I need to have those days or weeks where I'm moody and in a rut. It's a signal for something else, or just the state I'm in. I know that others have these periods as well. And I've spoken to a lot of people who are stuck in a rut they don't want to be in anymore without knowing what to do about it. I've developed and stolen some ideas on that. Shifting attention from the negative and bothering to things I want to focus on, with the goal being to get out of and away from the rut. These are some of them. Steal them with pride. → Set a deadline According to Parkinson's Law, things take as much time and space as they're given. Setting a deadline for a mood or a rut makes it possible for me to limit that time. What I've seen in people when speaking about getting out of a rut is that they allow themselves to be in the rut for an indefinite amount of time. They don't really have a plan to get out, an exit strategy or even a goal post in time for when they're going to be out of it. → A word of caution Just a word of caution on this, as it's a trap I've fallen into myself: No feeling or mood is bad. They're all signals and part of living. Allow yourself to feel them. Be in them. Just don't get stuck. This method, of putting a deadline to states of being, is something I've been practicing for years. I'm still testing it, with varying results. → Behaviour first One of my current big role models is David Goggins. He's a former Navy Seal and current ultra runner and smoke jumper. He's been known to go head first into things he hate. He hates running, that's why he does it. He starts every day with running, because it's the worst thing he can think of doing. What he, and many others, does is behave in a way and then shape the reality around that behaviour. Behaving in a way as if what they're doing isn't uncomfortable until it isn't. I've done this myself a number of times and found it immensely powerful. For me, it's not about smiling until I feel happy or doing power poses. Most often, it's about making a call, sending an e-mail or just getting to work. Especially when I'm in a rut. That's when I fake it, go behaviour first, and let the feeling of doing the right thing to get me to where I want to be find me.