Working? How to make the best of black Friday, instantly

Are you working for Black Friday? I can relate. In past years, I’ve worked in retail, childcare, and car sales for that biggest shopping day of the year. 

It’s easy to start feeling negative or resentful when you have to leave home at a weird time (late at night or super-early in the morning) to go to work. While seemingly everyone else is snuggled warm in their beds with dreams of leftover turkey. 

When you get to work there might already be dozens or even hundreds of customers waiting in line to snag the deals. Or, worse, you and your team showed up and it feels like a ghost town! There can be a mentality of we “shouldn’t even be here today.” 

It’s easy to get swept up in that way of thinking and before you know it, start to have a bad day. And I get it. I’ve felt that way before. Here’s how I learned to turn it around so that I could feel good even when working on a holiday.  

My best advice: Do your best to make the most of the day. You’ve already signed up or been assigned to work, so you might as well give yourself the opportunity to make it a good experience. 

Here are three easy ways that you can instantly turn it around:  

1. Smile. 
2. See the positive and act on it.
3. Remember that you have a choice. 

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