Do you sometimes wonder what your ideal day would look like?
It’s not just some idle thought experiment.
When we understand what things need to happen every day, we can build a better life for ourselves.
Learn why a beach day does not equal your ideal day, and how you can design your ideal day.
Would you like to read more, but never seem to find the time for it?
Then a reading schedule might be the answer to your problem.
By creating a well-defined system, you make sure you read all the books on your list. No more winging it.
Building good habits is the key to a better life.
If you go to the gym each morning, you cannot help but get fit. If you train yourself to call 5 new clients each day, your business will prosper.
Yet the tricky part is not introducing the habit, but sticking with it.
This is where the 21/90 rule comes in. By not breaking the chain for 111 days, the new behavor will eventually become effortless.
How much of your time is spent on activities that prevent you from achieving your goals?
Those two hours each day watching Netflix. Taking out your phone at random times to check your Instagram. Getting drunk with friends on a Saturday night.
In monk mode, you eliminate all of these.
It seems like there is always too much to do.
That urgent project at work. Your doctor telling you to take up yoga. The 64 unanswered emails in your inbox. Your family demanding more attention.
The longer this goes on, the more you lose agency. You are not in control of your life anymore — it controls you.
There are two things you need to do to get out of this fix.