Taghard day; challenges at work; perspective

I had a tough day on Tuesday. The details don’t matter – think back to your last challenging day and that’s how I was feeling. In response to my tales of woe at dinner, Andrew kindly said, “Wow, you really had a crappy day!!”. Do you know what flashed through my mind right then? It was that even if, instead of having challenging meetings, I had just spent the  day buying lottery tickets and...