Not your day? Fret not and read on.

Have you ever felt like you wanted to do a lot more than you are doing, but somehow one thing or the other stops you from making a progress? A phonecall that takes forever, meeting a colleague and the conversation stretching to more time than you thought it should or an unexpected visitor who drops by and doesn’t realise that you have a thousand things at the back of your mind.

You desperately try to get out of the this-is-going-nowhere groove and get back to your routine. I say routine, because I have a routine for each day. If you donot have a 'routine’, replace ‘routine’ with ‘important task'! Things are not working out and your are just not able to achieve what you set out to do. Heavens know today is not your day. So, what do you do? Are you going to let things slip, just like that?

Here's what I do on such days:

1) Try to look for the slightest opportunity to find the route through the escape door without sounding rude. And once you find it, grab it. With both hands.

2) And once you have done that, try to get back to your schedule as quickly as possible.

3) If you schedule your activity in neat time slots, let the activities whose time slots have elapsed, pass by without regret or guilt. After all it was not your fault that you were tied up. Go ahead with what activities scheduled for the reminder of the time.

4) Alternatively, cut short the time allotted for all the activities that have been slotted. This way you get to do a little of everything and none of the activities will go unattended. For example, if you had to do yoga, meditation,read the newspaper and fill your journal within the first two hours of your morning, but some unforeseen circumstances ate into one hour of your time, you can either forego the first two activities or go ahead with all the activities for a reduced time slot of fifteen minutes instead of the original thirty minutes.

5) The most important aspect in the entire exercise would be to avoid frustration and maintain calm. For there is no greater asset other than a cool mind. For, stress isn't going to get you anywhere or anything accomplished for that matter.

6) Most importantly, like I've discussed in an earlier post, breathe. Breathe. As often as possible. As much as possible.

Do you have any other tricks or hacks to deal with such situations? Please do share it in the comments section.