Did you have a good day yesterday?
Do you reckon that, by the end of today, you’ll say today has been a good day?
If my experience of asking people if they’ve had a good day is anything to go by………
There’s a pretty good likelihood of a “not really” response.
Which I get.
Life’s not easy.
I might talk tomorrow about how it’s not supposed to be.
But, a good question we could ask, is “How would we have known if it had been a good day?”
What standards were we judging it by?
If our answer is “Everything going well” then I would suggest that is both vague and naïve.
What even is the definition of everything going well?
What is everything?
What does going well look like for each of those things?
How many days of your life has absolutely everything gone well?
I’d say zero for me.
I don’t think I’ve ever gone to bed having completely finished my to do list and everything I have done going as well as it possibly could have done.
Everything going well isn’t a plan.
And if it is, it’s a plan set up to make us feel that our day is not gone well.
Going into the day with a specific but realistic intention of what we intend to do that would make that day a good one………
Then setting plans to make sure those things happen……..
And then just doing them irrespective of how we feel about doing them at that point……..
Massively increases the chance of us considering that day being a good day.
Every morning when I fill in my planner for the day I specify one absolute must do for the day……..
And three other important things that I intend to do.
I report what those things are to my accountability group.
Then I check back in at the end of the day.
Nearly always towards the end of the day, there’s that creeping feeling that it’s not going great.
That’s still a lot left undone.
But when I look at what my definition of what a good day would look like, I’ve nearly always achieved it.
And if I haven’t, having that bit of accountability at that point means I often do those last few things, whereas I would have otherwise “left them till tomorrow”.
If we have no plan for the day, we’re going to end up feeling like it wasn’t a good day.
If the plan was vague, we’re going to end up feeling like it wasn’t a good day.
If the plan was unrealistic and out of our control, we’re going to end up feeling like it wasn’t a good day.
Setting a definition of what a good day would look like………
That’s within our control and realistic………
Then checking in on that at the end of the day………
Actually increases the chance that we consider that it has been a good day.
Much love,
Jon ‘G’Day’ Hall
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