All of us know what it is like to have off days in the office, when we are just not in our groove, when a meeting goes awry, when the thing we have asked for hasn’t been done, or worse, when we are talking and people don’t seem to be listening. And either we hope tomorrow will be better, or we are lucky enough to have some tricks that we bring out to get things firing from all cylinders again.

Here are those tricks to get you back on track.