#BDDOML is my first hashtag mantra, and it stands for Best Damn Day of My Life.

It’s not a euphemism—it’s a declaration.

I started a ritual about two years ago. As soon as I wake up, my first action step is to make the declaration that this is the best damn day of my life.

Instead of waiting to see if great things happen, I simply initiate the day by having it be legitimately true for me, that this, by virtue of my decision-making, is in fact the best day of my life. Why not? Why would I not do that?

Why would I create any contingencies and then wait for something to occur in order to simply decide that this is the best damn day of my life?

Well, I never came up with a legitimate reason to wait. And in fact, not only did I not come up with a reason to wait, I discovered that when I bring that high vibrational state—which is characterized by enthusiasm and inspiration and gratitude and intrigue and awe—when I bring all those high-grade states into my day right out of the gate, I end up creating better days. I end up creating more excellence, faster and with less effort.

So whenever someone asks me, “Hey, CD, how you doing?” I use that inquiry, in that very moment, as a reminder to make the declaration again. #BDDOML.

But I don’t wait for anybody to ask me the question, “how are you today?” I start the day that way. There are some days (rarely) in which I’ll never talk to one person. I still make the declaration.

I’m not going to wait. As soon as I wake up, I make the declaration on my own.

And later, if anyone in the world should happen to ask me, “How are you?” I say, “Thank you for asking. This is the best damn day of my life.” And what I mean is “Thank you for the reminder to redeclare, because I may have forgotten that this is the best damn day of my life.” Maybe I’d fallen out of “the best day of my life” state, and their question reminded me of where I want to be.

Sometimes I get interesting responses to that. Let’s say I’m at the grocery store and the checkout person asks me how I’m doing, and I say my answer, #BDDOML, they might say, “Wow. Really? Why? What happened?”

And I’ll say, “I woke and I decided that it’s the best day of my life. That’s what happened. I decided it first thing this morning, and then because you asked me right now how I’m doing, I’ve decided it again.”

I don’t want to wait to see how anything goes in the outer world in order to elevate the inner world.

I have the freedom and the ability to use my mind in such a way that I get to actually legitimately believe that this is the best damn day of my life. So I’m doing that.

Some people hear it, some people don’t. I don’t care.

Now I will say this: some days it ain’t so easy. I wake up, and for whatever combination of reasons, I’m not really feeling like this is the best day of my life. Especially if I’m sick.

To me, that’s the hardest time—when I’m feeling ill—to actually have #BDDOML be true. And that is some of the greatest inner world work I could ever do. Despite the challenge, despite the circumstance, to still power through intentionally and choose that this is, in fact, the best damn day of my life—that work pays off.

Since starting this ritual about two years ago, I have missed zero days. I have had many, many days where I felt like saying,

“Oh, the hell with it, for God’s sake! What’s the big damn deal, CD?
It’s just another day, who cares?”

But then I follow that with

“No, man. Don’t bail on this. Elevate.

It’s going to pay off tremendously.”

Even if you’re sick and even if you feel like crap, do the work and that work always pays off.

Best damn day of my life. It’s a brilliant choice. I encourage you to make it every day.

#BDDOML