How To Design A "Perfect" Week

And how to live it.

You have probably imagined a perfect day, and you may even have sketched a few ideas on paper. But are you living the ”perfect” day?

A ‘perfect’ day often feels elusive because we have delegated control of our calendars to others. Yet technology allows you to control a large part of your day.

My work would be challenging to do if there were no scheduling services. I live in the Far East, and many of my clients live on the other side of the world. There can be as much as seventeen hours’ difference between us. If I were to make appointments manually, I would spend a large part of my day back and forth trying to fix a time.

Scheduling services allow you to set the times you are available for meetings, and your clients and partners can choose the best time for them.

Designing your perfect day starts with knowing what you want. You have 24 hours to do whatever you want. Most of us will need to schedule our work, which will likely take eight to ten hours. Then, we have our sleep time, which takes six to eight hours. But that still leaves six to eight hours each day for other things. So, what do you want to use that time for?

A trick I use is to set up a “Perfect Day” calendar in my calendar app. On this calendar, I put in the time blocks for everything I would like time for each day and allocate the time I want for the activity. As a guide, I like:

• 45 minutes for my morning routines

• 2 hours for focused work

• 2 hours for coaching calls

• 1 hour for exercise

• 2 hours of family time

• 7 hours for sleeping

• 1 hour for communications (email, calls, and other messages)

• 1 hour for general admin

• 1 hour for planning out content

• 90 minutes for eating and showering

That’s around nineteen hours. That leaves me five hours to handle the unexpected and anything that may overrun.