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Tips For Working On Your Birthday

As I mentioned in my previous post, my news shift ended up falling on my birthday this year. When  I first realized this was going to happen, I was extremely upset that I couldn't take the day completely off to give myself a relaxing and peaceful day.

But, I was able to find a loophole. I decided to cover a weekend story that counted as the story I would have to cover on my birthday. So instead of going out to find a story, I just stayed in the newsroom to edit and piece together my weekend story for the evening newscast.

Although working on my birthday is never ideal, I decided to create a list of tips to remind myself of how I could still enjoy my day even though I was at work. While you may not be able to do the same thing as I did to get out of completely working on my birthday, hopefully, these tips I have created can help you for the next time you work on your birthday or another important day in your life.
  1. Plan your day out - Create a schedule for that day. Whether it is breaking down your day per hour or the time before/after lunch, having some sort of schedule will allow the time to pass by much faster as well as become less stressful of a day for you. 
  2. Don't stress - This goes hand and hand with creating a schedule for the day. By writing out all the things you absolutely need to do for that day, this allows you to not stress about the work you must do. Everything is laid out and ready to go for the work day ahead of you. 
  3. Choose your attitude - Sure, working on your birthday SUCKS! But there's no better time to practice choosing your attitude. You have the ability to change how good or how poor your day is going. Be happy you are celebrating another year of life.
  4. Enjoy yourself - Pack something special for lunch. Go out to lunch with family or friends. Find something that you can do at work that makes you happy and reminds yourself that you are awesome no matter the circumstances. 
It can be very hard to have a positive mindset when working on your birthday but there are ways around it. Think positive, be thankful for what you have, and of course, remember you are great!

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