Not too long ago I watched a TED talk on work-life balance. The speaker spoke about his typical day versus his ideal day by making a detailed list of what he would do on his ideal day. He spoke in detail about work-life balance how to make it work.
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!
Ideal day:
Wake up to beautiful sunshine and birds chirping (it’s 72° F outside).
Eat Kolaches (you know the ones, from Center Street).
Bow-fish 65 carp out of Utah Lake.
Create several movie filters for big-name films and sell them through my company.
Go fly on the afternoon/evening breeze with my fiancé on my personal wing set.
Grab a delicious meaty dinner (probably something wrapped in bacon and/or a honey glaze). Side of exotic fruit.
Watch Infinity War: Part II.
Clean house/serve my neighbor.
Sleep for approx. 6 hours and repeat :).
Seems like an awesome day! Especially the meat wrapped in bacon 😉 I hope you can have a day like that often!
Thanks for the post. It is interesting to think about how one would spend their time if money wasn’t an issue, or as big of an issue as it currently is for most people. What do you think is more important to do, increase income or decrease expenses?
Increasing income always helps, but won’t really matter unless you also decrease or maintain your expenses. If you can create passive income, your work-life balance could be whatever you wanted it to be.
Personally for me my dream day would be waking up to Cancun, taking a walk on the beach and eating all the food I wanted while spending all this time with my husband.
But as a regular life dream day would be, waking up to no alarm, cuddling and watching a movie with my husband, then getting lunch together and then spend the afternoon playing games and sports with all our family, and ending the night talking with my husband!
I spend most of my saturdays/ Sunday’s like this. I do wish all days could be like this without having the stress of work or school! Thanks!
Waking up in Cancun would be really nice!
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