Turning 50: Rethinking the Perfect Day

As you age, your wants and needs change. Your abilities change. Your surroundings, in terms of both people and places, may change. Also, you change.

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I can tell you from my own experience that the vision of a perfect day and the reality of how I end up spending my days don’t always align very well.

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Turning 50: Rethinking the Perfect Day

My Perfect Day is not scheduled or routine, so I’m definitely not going to make this a time log – with 5:00 am doing this and 5:30 am doing that.

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Instead, I know my Perfect Day includes these essential elements: – Pancakes (not eating them. I’ll explain in the details section!) – Piano – Exercise

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My Perfect Day includes elements I have now – writing, teaching, coaching, consulting, recruiting, investing.

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I do feel a void where a creative pursuit should be. So far, visiting the beach has taken up the time where piano used to be. We went to the beach 122 times in 2020!

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Another inflection point for me is the balance between work and play. Five years ago, I was definitely 80/20 work/play.

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One of the things I’ve recently done to combat the guilt is to flip my schedule so that I don’t even start work activities till the afternoon.

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Figuring out the day-to-day is still a work in progress. In addition, I want to have more certainty around how I’ll plan upcoming weeks, months and even the next few years.

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Turning 50: Rethinking the Perfect Day

As you age, your wants and needs change. Your abilities change. Your surroundings, in terms of both people and places, may change. Also, you change.

I can tell you from my own experience that the vision of a perfect day and the reality of how I end up spending my days don’t always align very well.

Turning 50: Rethinking the Perfect Day

My Perfect Day is not scheduled or routine, so I’m definitely not going to make this a time log – with 5:00 am doing this and 5:30 am doing that.

My original “Perfect Day”

Instead, I know my Perfect Day includes these essential elements: – Pancakes (not eating them. I’ll explain in the details section!) – Piano – Exercise

My original “Perfect Day”

My Perfect Day includes elements I have now – writing, teaching, coaching, consulting, recruiting, investing.

My original “Perfect Day”

I do feel a void where a creative pursuit should be. So far, visiting the beach has taken up the time where piano used to be. We went to the beach 122 times in 2020!

Rethinking my Perfect Day

Another inflection point for me is the balance between work and play. Five years ago, I was definitely 80/20 work/play.

Rethinking my Perfect Day

One of the things I’ve recently done to combat the guilt is to flip my schedule so that I don’t even start work activities till the afternoon.

Rethinking my Perfect Day

Figuring out the day-to-day is still a work in progress. In addition, I want to have more certainty around how I’ll plan upcoming weeks, months and even the next few years.

SWIPE UP NOW TO READ MORE

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