Everyone has bad days at work. If you love, or at least like your job, the bad days aren’t many. But most, because most jobs involve people, including yourself, who make mistakes, get into moods and don’t always show up perfectly, even a dream job has bad days. If you loathe your job, the bad days are every Monday through Friday. When the alarm goes off, the rock in the pit of your stomach turns over and the misery begins. Whether your bad days are few, or many, here are two reframes that will make you happier at work: 1. Practice gratitude for people, not your paycheck I discovered this trick years ago. After a much-delayed flight, I’d arrived at my hotel at 5 a.m. for a scant two hours sleep before I had to give a full day seminar. Trying to psyche myself up for what was sure to be a tough day, my default response was to remind myself of how much I was being paid. But that only made me feel worse, like a wage-slave sentenced to a tough gig.  But when I thought about the people who were taking their valuable time to attend my seminar, I was more inspired. Post recession, I often hear people say, “I guess I should be grateful just to have a paycheck.”  This mindset isn’t sustainable because enthusiasm for a paycheck alone is not enough to keep a person emotionally satisfied. I’ve been broke before, so I’m always very grateful to be paid. But if you tell yourself, “I don’t like my job, but I’m grateful for the money,” you wind up resentful and unhappy. The person who constantly grumbles about their work but claims http://www.mcleodandmore.com/2014/01/31/two-easy-ways-to-make-yourself-happier-at-work/