Sentences with phrase «having the worst day of»

I can literally be having the worst day of my life, and making these brownies will make me feel infinitely better.

The Shanghai Composite Index had its worst day of the year Thursday, down 2.3 %.

Not exact matches

Successes aside, MacGregor, 66, says the worst day of his life took place in 1987, when he had to tell 250 Abax employees that the business was closing.

Data from hedge fund analytical tool Kensho that examined patterns coinciding with U.S. military actions in the Middle East dating back to the 1990s show that in the day, week and month after a Mideast strike, oil has underperformed other assets, and the energy sector has been one of the worst in the S&P 500.

And after the closed - door match, he wept on camera, saying it had been the worst day of his professional life, and threatening to quit the Spanish national team.

«He has always said the worst part of ETFs is that they becomes a trading vehicle that can hurt investors of any size, which contrary to the old index mutual funds, that can only be traded at the end of the day,» said Drew Voros, editor - in - chief of ETF.com.

For me, I understand that snipers had worse days in Afghanistan than they would have in a day of hauling junk.

«You can have a bad meal, or a bad day of meals, and quickly get back on track with a 24 - hour fast,» Nirav says.

But I have bad news for you, this is probably only the tip of the iceberg when it comes to personal secrets stored up and poorly guarded by companies you interact with every day.

On a bad day you'd say is unpredictable,» Studzinski said in a TV interview ahead of the World Economic Forum in Davos in January.

He still has bad days, but nothing compares with that Monday of a decade ago.

After a couple of days on crutches, I saw a surgeon who told me it was the worst ligament tear he'd ever seen and that he wanted to do a major operation on my knee right away.

When her husband was alive, she says they had a dinner tradition of revealing their best and worst moments of the day.

These days, customer relationships have the life span of a Hollywood marriage, or, worse, a series of one - night stands.

A «comprehensive review» is under way that has «accelerated» in recent days, Brittin said, adding the company had invested «millions» and has thousands of people who work on policies, controls, and enforcement to ensure bad ads — or bad ad placements — don't make it into the system.

Although some technologists think Twitter could one day be a billion - dollar company, many others say it represents the worst of Web 2.0: a company that is built to flip, that does little of value and has no long - term prospects as a standalone enterprise.

In fact, according to an old folk rhyme that many people at the time would have known — «Marry on Monday for health, Tuesday for wealth, Wednesday the best day of all, Thursday for crosses, Friday for losses, and Saturday for no luck at all» — it would have been considered bad luck to get married on a Saturday.

Given the average professional service business runs on profit margins of around 10 percent, having clients not pay you for 100 days means you're eating up every cent of profit for a year worth of hard work to cover their bad behavior.

The car maker, which has consistently fallen short of promised production targets and is fighting bad publicity over a fatal crash of a car using its Autopilot system, said 10 days ago it would have positive cash flow from the third quarter.

«There were a lot of people who put their foot down to be sure [Matt] was isolated when he was having a bad day,» says former HR chief Melinda Wolfe, who left in September for a similar role at Pearson.

When we have a bad day sometimes the pressure of trying to act like it never happened makes things more stressful.

Philanthropic contributions aside, Bitcoin is having a bit of a bad time these days.

«It seems new national security advisor John Bolton could be starting his first day in the White House in the worst way possible: by having to plan a military strike on Assad's ability to deliver chemical weapons attacks in Syria,» Harry Kazianis, director of defense studies at the Center for the National Interest, told CNBC.

I had some good days and bad days, like most of you.

Before her husband's death, the family would eat dinner together every evening and «share the best and worst moments of our day,» she wrote in the New York Times.

Sure, we all have bad days, but when I look down the list of the great things my business gives me do, I wouldn't swap it for anything.

«As an organization, we have been plagued with too much bad behavior, which has resulted in loss of lives, negative press and large lawsuits,» said SAE's eminent supreme archon Bradley Cohen in a Founder's Day video.

Being closely surrounded with mentors has changed how I approach all sorts of situations: what to say to the top executives to guarantee a meeting, how to build a strong network and use it regularly to strategically grow the company, how to start every day by visualizing and rehearsing events, how to constantly push everyone around me to their full potential, how to maintain confidence and cope with tremendous uncertainty and bad news, and on and on.

If I tell something to the papers and they don't write it accurately, it's really bad — they can't do much when you tweet it and I'm careful about, it's very precise, actually it's very, very precise — and it comes out breaking news, we have breaking news — ya know, it's funny, if I did a press release and if I put it out, it wouldn't get nearly — people would see it the following day — if I do a news conference, that's a lot of work.

For most of us, however, our very worst day would seem like a vacation to somebody who has real problems — like not having enough to eat, or trying to survive a civil war.

«It was worse than D - Day,» he said of St. Lo.

We make a difference every day in the lives of people we've never met, but who are coming to the site during what is probably the worst times of their lives.

Imagine how bad this is going to get on the day some negative news hits the wires and the really significant holders of bitcoin decide, «I've had enough of this.

In the last few days, Donald Trump has demonstrated what participants in the Dump Trump effort have been warning Macy's about for years — that Donald Trump's brand of bigoted bullying is simply bad for business.

He describes the modern Federal Reserve as maintaining its optionality; He explains how the Repo operations of the Fed currently operates, and why the transparent communication of the Fed is much improved from the bad old days when they would simply execute market transactions while saying nothing.

Most of the gains were seen on Monday (see chart) when gold surged the day after the Swiss gold referendum, to have a mandatory 20 % gold backing for the Swiss franc, was badly defeated.

The PowerShares QQQ Trust ($ QQQ), which tracks the Nasdaq 100 Index, has convincingly broken down below key intermediate - term support of its 50 - day moving average and is technically in bad shape.

Wall Street has made matters worse by the way Lehman Brothers emptied out its European offices of cash the day before it went bankrupt, paying off its closest U.S. cronies.

He also said, «I've always known... that not everybody will do it right every day,» trying to rationalize this as the work of rogue bad actors and a predictable part of doing business, as opposed to a systemic failure.

[01:10] Introduction [02:45] James welcomes Tony to the podcast [03:35] Tony's leap year birthday [04:15] Unshakeable delivers the specific facts you need to know [04:45] What James learned from Unshakeable [05:25] Most people panic when the stock market drops [05:45] Getting rid of your fear of investing [06:15] Last January was the worst opening, but it was a correction [06:45] You are losing money when you sell on corrections [06:55] Bear markets come every 5 years on average [07:10] The greatest opportunity for a millennial [07:40] Waiting for corrections to invest [08:05] Warren Buffet's advice for investors [08:55] If you miss the top 10 trading days a year... [09:25] Three different investor scenarios over a 20 year period [10:40] The best trading days come after the worst [11:45] Investing in the current world [12:05] What Clinton and Bush think of the current situation [12:45] The office is far bigger than the occupant [13:35] Information helps reduce fear [14:25] James's story of the billionaire upset over another's wealth [14:45] What money really is [15:05] The story of Adolphe Merkle [16:05] The story of Chuck Feeney [16:55] The importance of the right mindset [17:15] What fuels Tony [19:15] Find something you care about more than yourself [20:25] Make your mission to surround yourself with the right people [21:25] Suffering made Tony hungry for more [23:25] By feeding his mind, Tony found strength [24:15] Great ideas don't interrupt you, you have to pursue them [25:05] Never - ending hunger is what matters [25:25] Richard Branson is the epitome of hunger and drive [25:40] Hunger is the common denominator [26:30] What you can do starting right now [26:55] Success leaves clues [28:10] What it means to take massive action [28:30] Taking action commits you to following through [29:40] If you do nothing you'll learn nothing [30:20] There must be an emotional purpose behind what you're doing [30:40] How does Tony ignite creativity in his own life [32:00] «How is not as important as «why» [32:40] What and why unleash the psyche [33:25] Breaking the habit of focusing on «how» [35:50] Deep Practice [35:10] Your desired outcome will determine your action [36:00] The difference between «what» and «why» [37:00] Learning how to chunk and group [37:40] Don't mistake movement for achievement [38:30] Tony doesn't negotiate with his mind [39:30] Change your thoughts and change your biochemistry [40:00] The bad habit of being stressed [40:40] Beautiful and suffering states [41:50] The most important decision is to live in a beautiful state no matter what [42:40] Consciously decide to take yourself out of suffering [43:40] Focus on appreciation, joy and love [44:30] Step out of suffering and find the solution [45:00] Dealing with mercury poisoning [45:40] Tony's process for stepping out of suffering [46:10] Stop identifying with thoughts — they aren't yours [47:40] Trade your expectations for appreciation [50:00] The key to life — gratitude [51:40] What is freedom for you?

If there's a bright spot for the province, however, it's that the ongoing disruption of Alberta oil sands production — estimated by the Conference Board of Canada to be about 1.2 million barrels a day, comprising nearly $ 1 billion in economic activity — has contributed to a rally in global oil prices that could give producers, and therefore the Alberta economy, a badly - needed lift once production is finally back on - line (assuming, of course, the fires are eventually extinguished and oil sands operations escape serious damage).

Facebook had one of its worst trading days since 2012.

Areas like Boston have seen some of the worst snow on record and back home in Minnesota it has been consistently below freezing for days on end.

... I spent too much of my day reading the worst the Internet has to offer, and I wasn't getting paid for it.»

Alternative lender First National Financial Corp. has seen almost 20 per cent of its value vanish during a three - day slide and mortgage financing firm Equitable Group Inc. has dropped 8.6 per cent over two days, the worst slide since 2012.

In fact, across the stock market as a whole, if you had the bad misfortune to not be invested on a small number of days, you would have lost out on a great deal of the market's advances.

A poll I saw the other day indicated that 25 % of people on the verge of retirement think they are in such bad financial shape that they will have to work until age 80.

As an example of my bad timing, barely couple of days after we bought D, the company announced that 2017 would not be as good as projected due to lower import contract revenue at its Cove Point Terminal in Maryland and other near - term causes.

In the United States, the S&P 500 ® had its sixth - worst first trading day of the new year performance on Monday since 1928 -LRB--1.53 %).

Recent U.S. equity volatility may have you wondering if we're back to the bad old days of 2011.