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.
What are your ingredients for a good day? Leave a comment below or get in touch on X.
Originally published on giolodi.com.
"What are your ingredients for a good day?" It's amazing how your 5 points are so comprehensive. No matter people's background and vision, we all share the pillars of human existence. Thank you for putting them into words! Had them blurred in the back of my mind for way too long.