What Is Your Ideal Working Day?
Can you visualise your ideal working day? Perhaps it is a day where you are able to earn the maximum amount of money or where you can add the most amount of value to your clients. It might even simply be a day where you are able to work through your to-do list and get everything completed before the end of your work day.
How does your ideal working day start? For me it looks something like this:
- It begins with waking up feeling fresh after a good night of sleep
- I get up and make a cup of tea
- After a short break catching up on the breakfast time news it’s time for a run
- I run for about 30-45 minutes, enjoying the crisp morning air with a run along the canal path near my home
- Back home I shower and dress
- The last pre-work step is to make my breakfast -usually scrambled eggs – which will set me up with enough energy to get me through the first part of the working day
I work from home so starting work is just a case of opening my bureau desk and starting up my laptop.
Now let’s look at the first couple of hours of my ideal working day:
- I review the prioritised to-do list of the 3-5 items I need to complete today
- I complete the first item on the list
- After 30 minutes I take a 5 minute break, standing up, stretching, walking around a little and making a cup of tea
- I complete the second item on the list
- I take another five minute break
- I open up my email client and review emails received from customers, responding to any that can be done in just a couple of minutes, scheduling time this afternoon to handle more complex ones
- I review comments left on my website and reply to each one with a thank you and a brief comment
- I take another five minute break
- Now it’s time to tackle the remaining email in my Inbox, deleting most with a cursory glance, dealing with as many of the others as possible so I get to Inbox zero
- I’m two hours into my day now so I take a slightly longer break, about 15 minutes, and have a mid-morning snack – a carob energy bar from 9Bar
- and so on…
Hopefully you get the idea.
Now It’s Your Turn
Why not try this exercise for yourself. Try to imagine what your ideal working day looks like from waking up in the morning and through your working day. Visualize your ideal working day by thinking about how the tasks you have to complete, meetings you have to attend, calls you have to make, etc. Imagine your successes and the challenges you overcome.
Next Steps
Now you know what your ideal working day looks like, think about how close to this ideal you current working day is What would you need to change to make your working day closer to your ideal one?
This blog post is in response to Natalie’s 10 Day Freedom Plan Blog Challenge Day 3
