When you get home at the end of the day, what stands out in your mind?
Depending on what we choose to highlight often times dictates whether or not we think we had a good or bad day.
Whatever you choose to highlight will ultimately influence you more than you realize. It can make or break your day.
Think about notes; when you’re going through notes or a book and highlighting points, you are most likely going to highlight the good things so that you remember them. You choose to focus on the important information that will help you later on, not the sentence or paragraph that holds no significant meaning to the entire work. Say you do highlight that passage — when you go back to read it you’ll likely end up confusing yourself and question why you highlight it in the first place.
It’s the same with our days. Choosing to have the better moments of your day stand out will garner more positive results. Highlighting the negatives will just make you upset and ultimately you’ll feel stuck and ask yourself why.
So pull out your mental highlighter and get to work. You can use those notes the next time a bad moment almost ruins your whole day.
NerdieMike Blogs 
I’ve recently finished Daniel Kahneman’s intellectual marathon “Thinking, fast and slow”. One of the many interesting concepts in that book is what he calls the peak-end rule. This means that our expedience of any event is disproportionately influenced by the emotional peak of the event and how the event ended. I guess your bit of advice today can put a better spin on the end of an event, improving our experience of it.
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