Everyone has a bad day from time to time, but how do you know if you’re in for one? According to a new survey, the average American can tell if it’s going to be a “bad day” by 8:36 a.m. And it turns out, these bad days don’t just start early in the morning, sometimes they can’t be saved.
The poll of 2-thousand U.S. adults reveals:
- A quarter (26%) of people feel like when something goes wrong in the morning, there’s nothing they can do to turn the day around.
- The average American has four bad days a month, which adds up to 48 bad days a year.
- So, what’s causing all these bad days? The biggest thing is waking up and feeling sick (35%), followed by a bad night’s sleep (31%), and waking up with a headache (29%).
- Losing their keys (26%), forgetting their phone at home (25%), running out of toilet paper (22%), forgetting their wallet at home (22%) and sleeping through their alarm (19%) can also kickstart a bad day.
- Sometimes people just give up when they think they’re going to have a bad day, as 48% of those surveyed admit they’ve canceled plans or called in at work to go back to sleep when they woke up feeling like it would be a bad day.
- Bad days are most likely to happen at the beginning of the week, 36% of respondents say Mondays are when they’re most likely to have one.
- More than half (51%) of the 500 parents of school-age kids who were polled say they’re more likely to have bad days at the start of the school year and 55% say their child is, too.
- For 56% of parents, if their kid has a bad day, they have one as well.
- To try to prevent bad days from happening, people give themselves alone time every day to relax (41%), make time for things they enjoy (37%) and make sure to get enough sleep (35%).
- Good sleep is the key, as 71% of respondents say how well they sleep can “make or break” whether it’s a good day or a bad one, and 77% feel they’re more prepared to deal with things that go wrong in the morning if they slept well.
Source: SWNS Digital