The more I think about the perfect day the more I think there needs to be more elaboration. Yesterday I talked about not just focusing on the location or conjuring up some dream without taking action. I get it that we can all come up with things which we could list off as our perfect day. But is it remotely realistic? Is what you actually want?

It seems to me that as adults a fair amount of us end up spending an awful lot of time doing things we don’t enjoy or even want to be doing at all. So how does that happen? How do we get so far off track that one day we realize we are not even living a life we like?

I don’t really have an answer to that. But my guess is that we as we become older and get further away from childhood we lose who we really are and we work at becoming or maintaining a persona to please other people. We may actually like the school courses we take, or aspects of a job, and there can truly be many wonderful things to be grateful in our lives.

But what if instead of imagining the perfect day as some far off dream or unattainable goal we made it happen every day. Why not reevaluate our typical day to day activities and ask ourselves where were could make some small or even large adjustments. While there may be a number of things out of our control, what IS within our control? Making a few small tweaks to our lives could just be the tinder we need to create more action and inspiration. And if a few small tweaks are easy to maintain then they quickly will become habits. Which in turn we likely will be looking for other ways to make small improvements to our day.

Take a look at your day. Is there anything you would like to add or omit to your morning to get your day started? Are you able to set some time for yourself during the day? What about before bed, what does this routine look like? A successful bedtime leads to a better morning.

I challenge you to find at least three things that you would like to add or omit from your day so that you can create a better day for yourself.

Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it ~ Roald Dahl