How was your day today? Would you consider it a success?
What does a successful day look like to you?
Are you planning your days ahead of time or are you waiting to see where the day takes you?
In other words, are you creating or waiting?
Many of us don’t plan on wasting our time on non-constructive activities but that’s exactly what happens.
Why is this?
Because we didn’t take the time to think about what we want our days to look like, feel like and be like. We’ve established routines and many times we don’t even give them a second thought.
Years go by and we say to ourselves, “Where did all the time go?”
Until now.
Here’s a simple, practical exercise to discover areas of your life that you would like to change and take action on improving immediately.
This exercise isn’t to make you feel that you’re not doing enough or that you need improvement.
It’s an exercise to help you to stay focused on what you want and to keep you from the habit of drifting.
Here’s the exercise: (it may help to write out your answers on a sheet of paper)
First, think about your ideal day. What would it to look like? What would you like to be doing? Who would you like to be with or investing your time with? How would you like to feel? What would you like your overall attitude to be?
Next, think about your current daily routine. Think about the actions you take from the time you get up to the time you go to bed. You can probably predict, with certainty, the majority of the things you do, the people you see and how you feel throughout the day.
After putting some thought into your ideal day and also thinking about what your current routine looks like, compare the two.
Identify any differences between your ideal day and how you’re living your current days, then think of a few ways in which you can change or improve upon them.
Think of some things that you can start doing, stop doing, do less of or do more of. Maybe there’s something that you can start doing differently, more efficiently.
The goal of this exercise is to assist you in consciously creating what you want in life. Whether it’s better relationships, improved health, increased income, or overall well-being, it all starts with recognizing and deciding what you want.
When we know what we want and take the time to determine what we need to do each day to get there, we can plan our days accordingly.
Remember, it’s not just thinking about what we want and what we need to do, our results come from our ability to implement and act upon our ideas.
If we are not acting upon our ideas, we’re just hoping and wishing.
To your continued success and well-being,
Francis J. Bills
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