The Ingredients Of A Good Day
What events make a day good? And how can you get as many of them in your average day?
Here’s a question to begin the new year: What are the ingredients of a good day?
Not a great day. Just a good day. What needs to happen on an average weekday for you to go to bed content?
For me, a good day includes:
Time with my family.
Reading and writing. That is, engaging with ideas in a stimulating way.
Making concrete progress on something.
Time outdoors.
Exercise.
A good day doesn’t require remarkable events, only a dose of those things that matter to you. As a matter of fact, my good day looks pretty boring. Part of it is that I am a boring man, but it’s also a way to keep myself focused on what truly matters to me in the long run: family, health, mastery.
Once you know the ingredients of a good day, you can experiment with your schedule and commitments to ensure you get most of them day after day.
If dinner with the family is a key ingredient, make a point of clocking off work in time for it. If hitting the gym in the morning is guaranteed to make your day good, but you have a fixed start to the workday, consider waking up earlier to make time for it.
I hope this year will be our best yet, and I’m going to work hard to increase the chance of it being so. But I would settle for a year where most days have been good days.
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Originally published on giolodi.com.