This got me thinking and prompted me to make my own list. Here it is:

Ideal Day

• Wake up without an alarm
• Have pancakes/waffles/french toast
• Play Golf with my wife
• Work for 4 hours with a lunch break in between
• Play games with my son
• Play a sport with friends
• Wind down in the hot tub with my family
• Spend quality time with my wife
• Go to bed

Typical Day

My typical day isn’t quite the same. It looks a little more like this:

• Wake up to an alarm that I pressed snooze twice on
• Eat a small snack while driving to work to make it on time
• Work 8-9 hours
• Come home exhausted and eat dinner with my wife and son
• Spend a small amount of time with family
• Go to bed

As you can see, the difference between my ideal day and typical day is vast.

Ideal Day in Practice

I decided to try my best to have an ideal day on a typical day, so I took part of work off and did the following:

• Played Golf with Tara, Jacob and Carlee
• Had brunch with Tara and Rhett
• Went to work for 4 hours
• Played softball with some friends
• Had Dinner
• Spent some time outside by our apartment
• Cuddled while watching a movie with Tara
• Went to Bed

If I could have a day like this one everyday, I would be a lot happier!

Surprisingly, I got about the same amount of work done in half the amount of time. Feeling like I had less time to get things done, motivated me to work harder. I also felt a lot more rejuvenated to take on the tasks at work because it wasn’t taking up a big chunk of my day.

Granted, we can’t all have days like this. Sometimes work requires us to be there for large chunks of the day. It may take a little bit of creativity to find a good work-life balance when this is the case. I usually try to do small things to help even things out. Those small things can be anything from going to lunch with Tara and Rhett one day, or spending time with family on a Saturday. It’s the little things that count.

I suppose this is the appeal to us starting a blog and looking for other passive income ideas. Not having to physically be in an office everyday would allow us to have our ideal days more often.

Is your ideal day close to your typical day? Comment below what your ideal day would look like. Thanks for reading and be sure to subscribe to our blog and follow along on Facebook if you’d like to hear more!