“What we do everyday matters more than what we do once in a while”
Gretchen Rubin
To live your best life, you must design your best life.
To design your best life, you must design your best day.
What’s the best day look like? What does it include?
I use a notebooking method to help me live my best day, everyday. I realized that to have a great day, I must:
- Go to bed early/Wake up early
- Exercise
- Write
- Learn/See/Do something new or meet someone new
- Do my “ONE Thing” for the day
- Meditate and Pray
- See my ONE Thing for the week, month and year
- Listen to something uplifting/empowering
- Experience Gratitude
- Read
- Use another language
- Know who I am & create who I want to be (affirmation)
- Reflect on something amazing from the day and record some “wins” before bed
We are what we repeatedly do.
Building daily habits is essential in mental, spiritual, and physical fitness.
Once you have a daily habit/routine, it is very easy to grow these habits or to change them.
Don’t be afraid if sometimes life gets in the way, or if a “day off” is exactly what’s needed.
It’s not about perfection, it’s about progress.
Progress beat perfection every time!
PS – Once you start designing your days (work days and “off” days), you can begin to design your week. Maybe you take a class one night a week, or devote one night a week to a passion, a party, or a project.
Similarly, the system really starts to yield results when the days stack up and the months and year begin to gain clarity. Maybe some months are best for family or travel or passions.
I make yearly goals, then monthly goals, then weekly goals. Every week I plan “top-down”: from years to months to weeks… Then Everyday, I list my tasks or goals “bottom up”: how today’s goal feeds into this week and how this week feeds into this month’s goals, etc. The weekly goal setting gives vision and hope and the daily goal-setting provides motivation.
Listing yearly, monthly, and weekly goals on each day’s notebook page means that the biggest goal is seen the most (the yearly goal is seen most often, followed by the next biggest goal, the monthly goal, and so on…)
Know oneself, know one’s goals, take action. Repeat.
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