How does the "randomness factor" affect you?

Nearly everything is random except me. I learned a technique from a motivational speaker years ago that changed my life. When I wake up in the morning I first thank God for another day then I tell myself it's going to be a wonderful day. If anyone asks me how I am I tell them I'm great. If the weather is bad (here, bad is sunny) I remind myself that the cacti love it. If I have a task I don't want to do I say a prayer of thanks that I'm able to do it even though I don't want to. It's all positive thinking and it eventually takes the randomness from my day and replaces it with good. We certainly can't control the random events and people in our lives and we wouldn't want to because then life would be really boring. But we can control the way we react and feel and turn the negative into the positive. I have lost some of that in the past few months so I thank you for reminding me of this very valuable tool that I can use to make my life even better.

tabula rasa?

So you oiled the bottom instead of the top? hmmm Well yes some of day depends on how others are feeling shall we say. I am generally the same each day, you can set a clock by me.

Y'know, since I started praying, meditating, and Prozac I find that I prefer the "randomness factor" of the day. It's better to feel the day is unique than to feel that I can just switch on auto-pilot and do the zombie dance through the day, not paying any attention to it.

I simply call it "randomness" or "fate". I encounter the "randomness factor" when I cook. I follow my usual recipes and sometimes the food is simply good, other is come out "special", if I only knew the reason.

Hmm, never thought about the randomness factor. I know within five minutes of getting up whether I should have just stayed in bed and done a do over. I wanted to do that yesterday. My knees just didn't want to work yesterday and staying in bed and vegging out seemed like a good thing. I got up anyway.

I usually get up in good mood. Only when a grave problem was eating my head the previous day or night my mood is bad...actually it is not bad at the start..when I become conscious and recall the problem..it becomes bad. So you could say it is kinda dress I wear, and now you have made me aware...I can choose not to think about the problem...or defer it..I CAN CHOOSE..ha ha. Thank you for making me aware of it.

I usually get up in good mood. Only when a grave problem was eating my head the previous day or night my mood is bad...actually it is not bad at the start..when I become conscious and recall the problem..it becomes bad. So you could say it is kinda dress I wear, and now you have made me aware...I can choose not to think about the problem...or defer it..I CAN CHOOSE..ha ha. Thank you for making me aware of it.

Like when you buy a container of strawberries and all those you can see are perfect, but the ones under those perfect berries are rotten! I usually start in a good mood, but if my husband says one silly thing that makes no sense I'm off and running my mouth LOL and it's all downhill from there! randomnes factor is life

'tis jest life. mine tends to be like that proverbial box'f chocolates, i ne'er know what's'n that next bite, lol.

"randomness factor" is perhaps the most right phrase and I think it is the best to describe the factor this way!

I pretty much know I will have a productive day most days. I am far from lazy and I refuse to let an illness stop me, even pain, I am an optimist and its rare I allow myself to get depressed because I work with depressed people, people who are dying .....BUT I refuse to allow them to die on my watch! Old habits of schedules are hard to break but I am learning, with the work I am doing now most day are the random type, due to how they feel. Another thing I have learned and that is to turn off all the ringers of the phones so I do not get that 7 am call that is a telemarketer, after being up all night with a sick man. Make my day happier.

Most definitely moods.

I feel like -- It's randomness which makes you smile when you look at a situation which reminds you about your past. Another one - Well for example you are asked to take out a note out of a opaque box full of 10 dollars and only one 100 dollar and you get a 100 dollars. I don't know why any one will think of randomness, when you know you can chose what you want to be! Situations can't be on your way always but yeah, I have a choice to avoid it

I have depression and schizophrenia so the randomness factor is always around. I can't push myself doing things I don't like and feel the way it doesn't work, so everyday I am going with randomness.

any mood that I am in I will get out of it.I do not like to start the day with a bad mood.

For me it is who the heck knows. I wake up and it all depends on how demanding my cat is right away and what kind of mood my hubby is in and only then I can determine how the day will start. If things get a bit hairy then my escape is right online and getting emerged in my work and listening to some music or some movie I love.

I agree with Dragon!