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Last week I talked about accountability and discipline.

Today, I want to talk about hard days.

I did not have a good night last night.

I didn't sleep well. I'm going through some physical discomfort. Nothing serious, but just physical discomfort. And I just got down. And one of the things I've learned is hungry, angry, lonely, tired, halt.

If you get too hungry or you get too angry or you get too lonely or you get too tired , and I also will add hormonal in there, I find that is when my negativity, my catabolic energy comes up.

And the thing is I woke up and I was like, "okay, I didn't have a great night's sleep. I'm not feeling that great about me at the moment. And I'm just having one of those days. I'm having a hard day."

So every morning I make a cup of tea. And I go out to our garden, and I sit, and I talk with the Universe, and this morning, I was resenting the Universe.

I was like, "I'm not feeling so great, Universe, and for some reason I want to blame it on you."

I just didn't feel great.

And then a little voice came to my head that said, do what you always do.

Don't treat this day any differently than any other day. And so slowly I started to say my mantras that I say and I opened up my little journal and I read some of my affirmations and I got myself present by naming the birds that I was hearing and the sounds that I was hearing.

And I said, "okay, look, even though you don't feel so great today. I'm still going to suit up. I'm still going to show up and I'm still going to be Peter Pamela Rose reporting for duty today."

And had my breakfast, took a shower, put some makeup on, had my first meeting. I've already done four meetings today and it's not even 10:30 in the morning and here we go, and now I'm doing a podcast.

And it was while I was in the shower that I said I should do a podcast about when things aren't so great, when you're not feeling so wonderful.

The Language of Letting Go

This reading is about getting through the hard times.

This is about getting through the hard times, and as always, I'm going to be using her words for inspiration, and I'll be talking a little bit about it.

"Hard times. Stressful times. Are not all there is to life, but they are a part of life. They are a part of growth, and they are a part of moving forward."

I was working with a client privately recently, and we got to this bit where I said, you work, you grind, you get to the next level. Repeat. You work, you grind, you get to the next level. Repeat. You work, you grind, you get to the next level.

And the thing is that days like I'm having today, guess what?

That is part of growth. It is part of life. It is part of moving forward.

This is the key, even though it doesn't feel like it.

"We can use the energy of hard times to work out and work through our issues."

Why would you treat this day differently than any other day?

No, you keep to the routine. Because the routine is on the path to growth.

So again, we use the energy of the hard times to work out, work through our issues.

And we can use it to fine tune our