How to Create the Perfect Life
You create the perfect life, by creating the perfect day…and then duplicating that day.
...And you know what...it’s critical that you create the perfect life, because every day that you’re not creating the perfect life, you are by default, intentionally, and necessarily, creating a life that you do not enjoy.
Each day that you say I’m going to start creating the perfect life “tomorrow,” you are taking a brick of idleness, and you are building a house that you will eventually live in. A house of regrets, a house that does not reflect your extraordinary potential.
Success inherently involves swimming upstream, and so every day you decide to just “tread water,” you are deciding to move farther away from the life you desire.
I often observe people going through life, almost in a daze, and although at some level they are aware of what I'm saying, yet they appear to be living their lives as if they’re inoculated or insulated from the reality that each passing day is creating theirtomorrow.
Your tomorrow isn’t made out of hopes and dreams and lollipops, it’s made out of today, what are you doing today?
In other words, everyday that you’re not writing that book, you are contributing to a future without a book. Every day that you’re not in the gym, you’re contributing to being overweight, everyday! But of course, we’re optimistic, and we believe that one day we will have lots of time, and we will be able to make all the progress we need, and right our wrongs. However, and perhaps unfortunately, life is happening…right now…tick, tock…
Plato said, to do is to be. If you’re not doing it right now, today, if you’re not taking the necessary steps, you won’t “become it” tomorrow. The time to act is not tomorrow, it’s today, it’s always today, the time to act is always now, now, now! Tomorrow never comes, if it must be done, it must be done right now, …and then it must be done again, and again, and again.
You have to schedule your success, put it on your calendar.
If you can’t begin today, this particular day that we’re on right now, why would you be more inclined to begin “tomorrow?” Life is constantly getting more complex, not simpler, so unless you apply the brakes, clear your schedule, and make drastic changes now, you don’t have a brighter future, you don’t have a promisingtomorrow, you just have a longer today.
How do you create the Perfect Day?
By determining what are the four or five things that must happen in a day, for it to be considered your perfect day. Maybe it’s: I have to spend one hour writing, one hour in the gym, three hours promoting my business, two hours with my family, one hour preparing healthy meals for the upcoming day, and eight hours sleeping. If this is your perfect day, then this guarantees the future that you desire, so now you must work towards duplicating this day, every day. The more of these “perfect days” you can have, the faster you will get to your goal, and your perfect life.
Now, a perfect life is not a life without problems, or mistakes, but it’s a life where you are living to your fullest potential.
...And you know what...it’s critical that you create the perfect life, because every day that you’re not creating the perfect life, you are by default, intentionally, and necessarily, creating a life that you do not enjoy.
Each day that you say I’m going to start creating the perfect life “tomorrow,” you are taking a brick of idleness, and you are building a house that you will eventually live in. A house of regrets, a house that does not reflect your extraordinary potential.
Success inherently involves swimming upstream, and so every day you decide to just “tread water,” you are deciding to move farther away from the life you desire.
I often observe people going through life, almost in a daze, and although at some level they are aware of what I'm saying, yet they appear to be living their lives as if they’re inoculated or insulated from the reality that each passing day is creating theirtomorrow.
Your tomorrow isn’t made out of hopes and dreams and lollipops, it’s made out of today, what are you doing today?
In other words, everyday that you’re not writing that book, you are contributing to a future without a book. Every day that you’re not in the gym, you’re contributing to being overweight, everyday! But of course, we’re optimistic, and we believe that one day we will have lots of time, and we will be able to make all the progress we need, and right our wrongs. However, and perhaps unfortunately, life is happening…right now…tick, tock…
Plato said, to do is to be. If you’re not doing it right now, today, if you’re not taking the necessary steps, you won’t “become it” tomorrow. The time to act is not tomorrow, it’s today, it’s always today, the time to act is always now, now, now! Tomorrow never comes, if it must be done, it must be done right now, …and then it must be done again, and again, and again.
You have to schedule your success, put it on your calendar.
If you can’t begin today, this particular day that we’re on right now, why would you be more inclined to begin “tomorrow?” Life is constantly getting more complex, not simpler, so unless you apply the brakes, clear your schedule, and make drastic changes now, you don’t have a brighter future, you don’t have a promisingtomorrow, you just have a longer today.
How do you create the Perfect Day?
By determining what are the four or five things that must happen in a day, for it to be considered your perfect day. Maybe it’s: I have to spend one hour writing, one hour in the gym, three hours promoting my business, two hours with my family, one hour preparing healthy meals for the upcoming day, and eight hours sleeping. If this is your perfect day, then this guarantees the future that you desire, so now you must work towards duplicating this day, every day. The more of these “perfect days” you can have, the faster you will get to your goal, and your perfect life.
Now, a perfect life is not a life without problems, or mistakes, but it’s a life where you are living to your fullest potential.
So how do you remain motivated to achieve this perfect life?
Well, first you have to answer this question: Do you really want a “perfect life?” You have to want a “perfect life” bad enough to go through the pain to get it. As an example, I happen to be writing this article during the month of January, and here in the United States at least, the gyms are crowded, but the “faithful gym members” know one thing. You see, no “faithful gym member” frets because the gym is excessively crowded in January, and because they can’t readily gain access to a treadmill like they usually do when they walk in the doors. These “faithful gym members” don’t complain to management, they don’t resign themselves to go to another gym. Why? Because they know that these additional members who are crowding up the place, will not be in the gym in February, through December. And it’s the monthly fees of these individuals that keep gym membership affordable, all while keeping the gym appropriately populated for eleven months out of the year.
Now, why won’t these individuals be in the gym in February?
Because they came to the gym under false pretenses, they saw some model on Twitter or Instagram or Pinterest or Facebook (or some other social media site), and they said that’s what I want to look like this year -- and this is a good thing. And so they set out to achieve the goal, however, after a few weeks of working out, and seeing minimal results, all while going through lots of bodily pain, they unfortunately give up. They give up because they started to go down a path without fully recognizing the price that people who have achieved that level of success pay. They thought the cost was $200.00 USD, and it’s actually $20,000.00 USD. Upon learning the real price, they determine that they have a lot going on currently, and they would rather focus on their fitness at a later point.
So what’s my point, if you’re going to achieve success in business, at work, with your family, you have to know the price, and you have to be willing to pay the price. Nice things are expensive, that’s why they’re rare; how bad do you want it?
If you want it, you can have almost anything, but you have to want it, and you have to be willing to pay the price for it.
In Closing
Begin today to create your perfect life; schedule the four or five things that must happen every day for you to live the life of your dreams. If not now, then when; if not you, then who.
-Mr. Self Development
Well, first you have to answer this question: Do you really want a “perfect life?” You have to want a “perfect life” bad enough to go through the pain to get it. As an example, I happen to be writing this article during the month of January, and here in the United States at least, the gyms are crowded, but the “faithful gym members” know one thing. You see, no “faithful gym member” frets because the gym is excessively crowded in January, and because they can’t readily gain access to a treadmill like they usually do when they walk in the doors. These “faithful gym members” don’t complain to management, they don’t resign themselves to go to another gym. Why? Because they know that these additional members who are crowding up the place, will not be in the gym in February, through December. And it’s the monthly fees of these individuals that keep gym membership affordable, all while keeping the gym appropriately populated for eleven months out of the year.
Now, why won’t these individuals be in the gym in February?
Because they came to the gym under false pretenses, they saw some model on Twitter or Instagram or Pinterest or Facebook (or some other social media site), and they said that’s what I want to look like this year -- and this is a good thing. And so they set out to achieve the goal, however, after a few weeks of working out, and seeing minimal results, all while going through lots of bodily pain, they unfortunately give up. They give up because they started to go down a path without fully recognizing the price that people who have achieved that level of success pay. They thought the cost was $200.00 USD, and it’s actually $20,000.00 USD. Upon learning the real price, they determine that they have a lot going on currently, and they would rather focus on their fitness at a later point.
So what’s my point, if you’re going to achieve success in business, at work, with your family, you have to know the price, and you have to be willing to pay the price. Nice things are expensive, that’s why they’re rare; how bad do you want it?
If you want it, you can have almost anything, but you have to want it, and you have to be willing to pay the price for it.
In Closing
Begin today to create your perfect life; schedule the four or five things that must happen every day for you to live the life of your dreams. If not now, then when; if not you, then who.
-Mr. Self Development
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