LifestyleDesignUnleashed

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Have you ever put aside some time to consider your ideal day?

An interesting and revealing exercise is simply to take a pen and paper and go and sit somewhere that you won’t be disturbed. Go to the beach, or for a walk in the forest, or sit ontop of a hill somewhere. Turn off your phone so you won’t get interrupted and just imagine your perfect average day.

Take it from the moment you wake up to the moment you go to sleep and consider every element in depth. Where do you wake up? What is the weather like? What do you do that day? What do you look like? What do you feel like? Who do you spend time with? What do you do in the evening? What time do you fall asleep?

If you have a partner (husband, wife, girlfriend, boyfriend etc.) it is particularly interesting to do this exercise with them; but do it separately so you’re both totally honest. Then compare the results to see where you overlap, and where the differences are which will not only help you figure out your ideal lifestyle together but also teaches you a lot about the other person.

Another interesting exercise along a similar theme is to think back to a time when you were totally happy. Where everything flowed. Where you felt energetic. Where time flew. Where you went to bed with a big smile on your face.

What was that situation? Why did you feel like that? What elements can you pull out of it about your personality to help you get a better handle on who you are and what really fires you up?

Once you know where you are now, and where you would like to be, it’s a matter of looking at your lifestyle in finer detail to work out how you’re going to achieve your goals.

Here are a few elements to consider:

What Do You Want To Get Rid Of?

What elements of your lifestyle don’t work for you? What frustrates you, upsets you, annoys you or bores you? Whether that’s a relationship, a job or something else work out what in a perfect world you’d like to eliminate.

What Do You Want To Add In?

With the bad taken out, what extra good things would you like to add in? Would you like to lose some weight? Would you like to earn more money? Would you like to spend more quality time with your family? Do you want to travel to certain countries or meet certain people? Put them on your list.

What Do You Want To Do?

If money was no limit, what are the things you’d like to do? I have ticked quite a few things off my list over the last few years of this lifestyle design process. I have flown a glider. I have visited the rainforests of Costa Rica. I have been in a helicopter. I have flown an ultralight (microlight to my UK friends) along the beach in summer. Do you want to write a book? About what? Do you want to learn an instrument? Which one?

Once you know your ideal lifestyle, you know what you want to get rid of, and what you want to add in, you have a very smart idea of where you need to head and you can start to try and put some of these elements into place. And remember that every step, no matter how small, will take you in the right direction towards your ideal lifestyle.

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