2024届高考英语一轮复习外刊阅读及配套练习：How to Make Sure Your Day Starts Off Great 如何开启美好的一天 +学案

How to Make Sure Your Day Starts Off Great New research shows that getting motivated can be as easy as 1-2-3. KEY POINTS There are days when nothing seems to motivate you, and you view upcoming tasks as stifling and routine. New research on innovative behavior shows how to turn dread into positive anticipation of daily plans. The 3-2-1 approach that builds on your strengths can help fulfilling days turn into fulfilling lives. You’ve got a big day ahead of you, and normally you’d be all fired up and ready to get going. However, you didn’t sleep quite as well as you would have liked, and something just seems “off.” You’ve spilled your coffee, it’s raining heavily, and you know that at some point, you’ll have no choice but to get out the door. When people feel as though they’ve got no energy, or that there’s just too much to deal with, it can be emotionally draining. On the other hand, when everything is lined up just right, there’s no stopping you. How, then, can you convert what seems like it might be a bad day into one that allows you to soar? Use Your Strengths to Get Your Best Day According to Southwest Jiaotong University’s Tao Liu and colleagues (2023), your best days are the ones in which you can fully engage your strengths, but there’s a proviso involved: Having the strength to go through your day is definitely beneficial, but the Liu et al team proposed that relying on strengths alone could become a problem. The so-called “strength-based” approach in research on workplace performance suggests that digging into those reserves may paradoxically keep people stuck in a rut rather than be willing to explore more creative options. You know what works, so you fail to engage your imagination in ways that could help you look at problems in a new light. Engaging your strength to its max without any relief can potentially lower your creativity; it can also be draining. Perhaps one of the reasons you’re not looking forward to your day is that you know that by its end,