I can’t believe it took me 52 years to learn this
I’ve spent my entire life chasing the perfect day, week, year etc etc
My problem was I could never actually articulate what the perfect day meant. Its up there with finding your passion when thinking about things that sound awesome but prove illusive. At least to me.
We can brush over the fact that I’m the guy that when sat in the middle of the so called “perfect day”, spends most of it planning out how to arrange another day thats even better than this one.
On top of that what was a pretty good day in my 30’s isn’t even close to what one looks like now I’m in my 50’s (just writing that number still makes me do a double take)
Getting back to my point
About 18 months ago I read a book by Dan Martell called “Buy Back Your Time”, and something just clicked.
STOP doing the things I hate!
Making a list of things you hate doing, is WAY easier than creating an abstract list of things you love, not least because creating a list of what you love, doesn’t leave any room for finding new cool stuff!
Anyway back to what’s turning into a much longer post than intended (not least because of these magnum stying narrative style interludes. Yes in my head magnum is narrating my story)
I followed Dan’s advice and took a hard look at my calendar. Colour coded things I hated, and things I enjoyed
Then I turned the “red” items into a list and got to work delegating or deleting them from my life.
18 months later I can’t believe the difference this has made to my work and home life.
Am I living the perfect day, every day? No of course not. But I’ve removed 80% of the things that were often ruining good days.
By focusing on taking things away rather than trying to ad them. I’ve been able to take back control.
Thanks Dan!
(BTW: this isn’t a plug for his book, in fact the core message of the book isn’t the one I’m talking about here, but its a great book.)
