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Some days you just feel fed up of your work. You know you shouldn't. You love what you do, but you can't shake the feeling. You almost have to drag yourself to work and you don't know how to turn the day around. That day can quickly turn into a second day. Before you know it, the week is a puddle of frustration. But there's a way out of this mess and it's incredibly simple. You can turn your day around in 30 minutes. Let's find out how.

You can read the transcript on the website: #164: How To Transform A Miserable Day Into A Happy One, In Under 30 Minutes

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How to turn a miserable day around in 30 minutes: Episode 166

Some days you just feel fed up of your work

You know you shouldn't.

You love what you do, but you can't shake the feeling. You almost have to drag yourself to work and you don't know how to turn the day around. That day can quickly turn into a second day.

Before you know it, the week is a puddle of frustration. But there's a way out of this mess and it's incredibly simple.

You can turn your day around in 30 minutes. Let's find out how.

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Sean D'Souza:Three Month Vacation How to turn a miserable day around in 30 minutes How to turn a miserable day around in 30 minutes Fed up. Fed up. Fed up.

I said it thrice on my walk this morning. And then Renuka pointed out that I was saying it yet again, as I reached the cafe. If you know me well, you probably know I'm always darting around at a squillion miles an hour. As a friend, Kimberley Carroll once said to me: "Sean you're a mad person. You're always busy doing things".

Even so, at some point all of us hit a wall

It's not the kind of wall you're thinking of. This isn't a spiral into sadness, frustration and depression. It's just a feeling I tend to get into, when I sense I need a break. And instead of paying attention to what my brain and body is telling me, I dig my heels in and go to work.

I turn on my phone and listen to another podcast or audio book. I turn that moment into a learning episode.

Except today, my phone decided to have a mind of its own.

I turned on the phone on my walk back, expecting to continue listening to an audio book. Instead, the phone started playing my favourite music. Admittedly my music tastes are pretty eclectic. They go from quawwali, to African drums, some Turkish music.

Buried in the middle of it all is tango, Taylor Swift and Zhu. However, today my phone decided to play Randy Travis.

Yup, country music.

That's the twangy stuff that comes out of Nashville, Tennessee. The stuff that most people like to turn their noses up at. But for me, country music isn't weird at all. I pretty much grew up with a generous dose of country music.

Think about that; a kid growing up in Mumbai, India, listening to country music. But I didn't just listen to the Randy Travises, George Straits and Ricky Skaggs. I record whole country radio shows and listen to it repeatedly on the sound system

As you can tell, the music floods my brain with subtle waves of joy and growing up. Anyway, my earphones were plugged in, and there I was on my "horse", listening to country music on my way back home.

But something had changed. I was no longer disgusted. I had a big smile on my face, and Renuka was struggling to keep up with my pace and stride. By the time I was back home, a mere half an hour later, I was a changed person.

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