Finding good in bad days starts with one brutal truth. You’re sitting in traffic for 80 minutes on a route that normally takes 30. The forecast predicted this snow a week ago. Nothing was done. You’re losing time you’ll never get back, and yet somehow, the drivers around you stay kind. Patience replaces rage. People let each other in. The chaos becomes proof that even waste can reveal something better.

The hosts test whether hope is luck or effort. One describes an hour-long lunch prep that could have been productive work but created a second wind instead. The other frames an upcoming conversation about a trust moment from four years ago that shifted a working relationship into something more. Both challenge the idea that hope means crossing your fingers. The claim: hope is looking for the opportunity, not waiting for the chance.

You’ll recognize the pattern next time something goes wrong. The bad reveals the good when you decide to look for it. And the more you look, the more you find, which means good news doesn’t just happen to you—you start making it for others.

Topics: finding good in bad days, hope practice, good news mindset, resilience habits, daily positivity

Originally aired on2026-01-27