How to Design Your Day for Optimal Freedom Creativity and Success

there is a little secret about being finished with your goals early in your day we's say and this is about you know you you may have four or five goals that you want to see progress in Daily and if you can set up your approach where you're getting to that point that I talk about where you feel like I'm finished I'm done I've accomplished I've met my my Baseline for what I regard progress I've met that if you can get to that point relatively early in your day you enter this spontaneous period of your day which isn't about gold and I also call it bonus territory and there's a very interesting thing that you'll find in that period of your day when you start to regularly get into that space where you know you're finished early you're sending your nervous system the off signal that I'm done you'll find that this bonus territory of your day this borus period of your day you're going to start to encounter a really nice surprise and it is that there are many things that are somewhat maybe related to your goals that want to be done very different to the idea that the you know the obligation we have around goals and this needs to be done I have to do that and I should do this and that's what's required right to have to to should do to need to do if you can attune to very basic easily achieved standards for your goals that you feel are making you're making progress with them and you know they're easy easy to maintain and you get to that point relatively early in your day you will find that now you enter this spontaneous Bon bonus period And it's like oh I'm attracted to that I want to do that and that's a really really useful period of your day in fact I would even say that that period of your day when you're in that space is more effective than the earlier part of your day when you're consciously deliberately more in a more structured way addressing your goals so one of the the tips I would say is try not to drag your day out too much where your entire day is full and structured right from the time you wake up to the time you go to bed you want to narrow it down and that that's what Focus looks like focus is this is the period of my day where i'm on and it has a start and an end point to it very very when we're consciously aware of that but if you can narrow that down then the rest of your day becomes this thing where these that surprise I mentioned starts to show up it's like oh my God I want to do that I want to go and do a little bit extra with this I want to play around with that and it's generally going to be felt as or experienced as things that are seem easy or doable or enjoyable if our day is too rigidly structured we never actually get to experience that it never actually gets to reveal itself to us which is oh there's things that there are things that want to be done that are going to be helpful to me when going after these goals so this is kind of about how you design your day and My Philosophy is that don't think big think narrow think small and that's what you consciously carry responsibility for if you like I'm just going to do small basic things I'm going to do them well I'm going to attune to myself to find out what is the best use of that small period of time I have in my day that will give me the most reward okay then the extra time in your day is going to be much more spontaneous and based on what you're attracted to do or what wants to be done and there are things that want to be done that you will feel an attraction to but we can't experience that unless we have given it room to reveal itself to us so one of the but the tip I was going to mention was try to get to that point as early as you can in your day okay you don't because you know if you're getting to that point and it's 8:00 p.m. 9:00 p.m. and and in the evening night time it's not going to you're just going to be too exhausted and it won't actually have a chance to reveal itself to you now that's assuming that you will your day will allow you to do that some people work evening shifts right and these types of things but it's a really nice feeling to to to to engage with your goals in this additional way once your your standards have been met and you start to feel a real sense of optimism you start to feel a real sense of um gratitude is the other thing you start to feel you still feel really grateful for the fact that you're kind of entering that flow State maybe more and more regularly without any sort of pressure or needing to force yourself into do it so use the see the earlier Paths of your day you know before that um willpower I guess has been somewhat depleted through all the decision fatigue that we have in our day and put those important things those those important standards around your goals those EAS easily achieved standards earlier in your day where your willpower your decision fatigue is is um has not been depleted and your willpower is very very strong that's um that's super important if we languish a little in the earlier part of the day the truth is we're always making decisions even if they're not related to our goals and the more of these decisions that we make throughout the day it's going to be more difficult to bring ourselves to take that action to to commit to Star times to doing these things that we've that are related to our goals so that's just a short video the I want you to experience what it's like to be in that bonus period because you'll be amazed at how effective you can be some of the most productive things I've ever created or done were in that period when it wasn't about you know this is what I have to do this is I've already done what I need to do now this is just additional stuff that I'm playing around with here and in that space it's incredible what you can do in that space of your day but just you got to design your day and kind of protect that space and you will be amazed at what actually comes comes about without the need for structure without the need for an intention a rigid intention and um so keep that in mind and play around with that idea and see it as you know call it something call it spontaneity time call it bonus time I feel like but it's not goal related time it's not a it can't be around I have to do this or a um this needs to be done that's allowable but in a small window of time maybe in the earlier part of your day so hope I'm clear with that and hope it's a useful concept and um thanks for watching and I'll see you again very soon take care [Music] [Music]