I want you to imagine what’s it like to have a perfect day.

Where you wake up at the time you want, with energy brimming through your entire body. You go ahead and start your morning routine, which you feel absolutely amazing after.

You then take out your laptop, with tasks you’ve planned the day before and you start tapping away in your laptop.

By mid-day, you take a break and go out for brunch at one of the hippest cafes in town just a 5-minute walk from your place.

You come back and continue back with your work..

When it reaches the end of the day, you’ve got a few of your buddies calling you asking you to get an after work drink.

You decide otherwise and want to spend time alone listening to nice music.

You go to bed at exactly 9pm, a time which you set.

“What a productive day” you thought. Lots of content published, lots of leads closed and lots of progress being made.

Well that’s the idea of my perfect day. What about yours?

I would like to urge you that experiencing a perfect day starts from the planning. A perfect day does not happen spontaneously, it happens by design.

(1) Write down what you want to experience in a perfect day

There are many steps that go into crafting your perfect day.

The first step is to write down what you want to happen during the day.

What activities do you want to happen during the day?  For example:

-Deep and meaningful work.

-Great conversations with like-minded people.

-Progress updates from clients that you love.

-Relaxing at a hip café.

-Listening to music while working.

-As a salesman, visiting many clients.

-Exploring the city you live in.

-Healthy foods in your mouth, great exercise.

-After drinks work with good friends.

-Success and results whatever that means to you.

-Peace and quiet or meeting a lot of people.

-Going to class and hearing insightful lectures.

-Cuddles with boyfriend/girlfriend

-After school activities, clubs, etc.

(2) Determine your work block

The second step is to understand how much work you’re going to do during the day. Is it a 12-hour day, a standard 8 hour day or a 4 hour-workday. Understand the overall work block you’re going to be working with will give you clarity.

You never want to not be vague on how much work you’ll do. For example, “I’ll hustle till my eyes bleed is not very good.” How much is hustle? A hustle can mean 2 hours, or it could mean 12 hours. Be specific.

(3) Determine your rest block

Once you know how big your work block is, the next step is to design your rest block. As I’ve mentioned many times throughout my blog, rest is a crucial part of recovery. You’re not a machine, you need some fun, so schedule it in.

(4) Designate tasks, schedule them into calendar

Next up, you want to know the set of tasks that you’re going to tackle. Make a list of them. And write down the estimated time that you’re going to complete them. For example:

1. Film a YouTube video – est. 4 hours
2. Write a blog post – est. 2 hours
3. Publish & format blog post – est. 30 mins

From there, you’ll have a scheduler like Google Calendar and schedule these tasks in the calendar.

You’re done!

The last step is to actually go and live your schedule.

There you go, you have all the components ready to create a perfect day. One thing to note is that once your work block is completed, get the f*** off work. I’ve made this mistake many times, where I continued to work until 2am in the morning. That completely messed up my schedule even though I temporarily got more work done.

Chances are today is not the only day you’ll be living, there’s tomorrow and so on. Once you’ve done the best you can with the day, close things off, check out. Pat yourself on the back, get off work.

When you can visualize and create a perfect day, the world really becomes your oyster. And it starts with knowing what you want to experience during the day, anyone can live a perfect day starting today.