 You know there are so many journaling videos on the internet but I think what's highly underrated is the ability to use journaling to figure out what your perfect day is and not your perfect life because ultimately your life is comprised of many little days and if you have each day right your life is going to be awesome. So in this video I want to share how to design your perfect day with journaling. What's up guys? Alex Hein here over at Modern Health Monk. Before we jump in I've put together a free journaling worksheet and a free journaling email series that goes with this video. So it's the first link right below this video and it'll help you figure out how to get your life together and how to utilize journaling to build the most incredible dream life imaginable. All right? Check it out right below this video and we'll jump back in. So there was a woman that had a really big impact on my life and her name is Susie Bates. So if you guys know the bathroom spray Pooperie, Susie is the founder and the CEO of that and she describes in one of her interviews a really really series of awful life experiences she had ranging from a suicide attempt to multiple bankruptcies and divorce and just thinking in this one moment that she was the worst entrepreneur ever, that she must be not destined for greatness or any kind of success. And she describes during this healing phase of her life where she spent about five years trying to figure out how to purely heal from the damage that entrepreneurship had done to her life and all she wanted to do was feel well. Now in that healing process what happened was she ended up getting this idea for bathroom spray that could stop bathroom odor that was built off of these essential oils that she had been tinkering with as a hobby. So long story short this ended her on Forbes richest women list. So she was one of the richest women listed in this inventory and this is formerly the woman that was the self-perceived worst entrepreneur ever multiple bankruptcies etc. Now what Susie talks about is what helped her in that healing journey was following something she called the resonance and dissonance radar. And the point of the resonance and dissonance radar is that she found that when she pursued businesses that she wasn't excited about they never worked out and when she pursued businesses that she was really passionate about things worked out and she realized that that was true also in her relationships her friendships her hobbies and so on. And so she calls this the resonance and dissonance radar. Now what does this have to do with designing a perfect day? Well your day is designed and comprised of all these little things that you do. So the first thing that I want you to do is come up with a list of daily tasks or weekly tasks that you do and break them just into two columns resonance or dissonance. So I'll show you what that looks like. So here we have the resonance radar right this is Susie's term so I want to give her credit for that and we're just going to say resonance here and then dissonance here. And then I want you to just write down what you do basically on a daily basis right anything in your life. I mean it's different if you're a student you're an entrepreneur but write down everything so I'll put down a little list here. Let's just say iron clothes for work and then we'll say from there you know let's just say you're a student we'll say homework then we're going to put the gym gym workouts then we're going to say you know cooking and then we're going to say let's just say you're an entrepreneur right we'll make it even more granular so there's more tasks here. We'll say let's say you're a youtuber right you're creating videos like this you have to script videos you have to shoot you need to have your clothes ready and then let's throw in a couple other things just from life let's say you know you went hiking you got brunch you mentored some people now let's look at these day-to-day tasks in terms of resonance and dissonance so when I go through this list which it's honestly so simple what do you want to do that's the million dollar question what do you want to do on a daily basis so when I look at this list do I want to iron clothes hell no do I want to do homework I mean if you're in an interesting field yeah but let's just put yes and no do I want to go to the gym it depends well let's just put yes do I want to cook not really do I want to script videos not really do I want to shoot videos not really I just like having videos done do I want to get my clothes ready not really do I want to hike I mean some days but a lot of days I don't so let's just put not really I'm tired I want to relax on the weekend do I want to do brunch with friends sure do I want to mentor people that you know sometimes reach out and want mentorship for free sometimes but mostly not really because I have a lot on my plate so now we have resonance and dissonance let's break these down a little bit so let's say studying something you love we'll just put study we have the gym because it makes you feel good or makes me feel good and then let's just say my only other thing I like to do is get brunch with friends that's currently my resonance radar like on the average day I want to do something I like I like exercise and I would love to get a meal with friends and then let's look at dissonance let's just break down a few of them so ironing I don't really want to do that on a perfect day if I don't have to uh cooking you know I do cook but if I had a million dollars I wouldn't let's say you know scripting videos because it takes a lot of my time getting my clothes ready right that goes into ironing and then let's say mentor right it's fun mentoring people but do I really want to do it every day as opposed to getting paid for it not really so now we have the resonance and the dissonance radar so day to day what do you actually want to do it sounds logical but doing what you actually want to do and not doing what you don't want to do is one of the first ways to parse out what would create your perfect day now the next step here is to really figure out how you want to feel right and sometimes you can reverse engineer what you want to do based on how you feel so a lot of what we're doing or what you want to do in your life subconsciously is you're trying to find a feeling so for me for example one of the things I realized is as an entrepreneur how I want to feel is usually free like I basically can do whatever I want when I want it I want to feel uh excited so I don't want to do anything out of obligation if I don't want to go iron my clothes I'll pay someone to do it for example or I'll do it some other time Susie Bates uses the word turned on which I know comes with a lot of uh innuendo free excited turned on and I would say let's say positive expectancy meaning I'm looking forward to my day I want to be doing this if I get 10 million dollars it's not going to change that I want to do this maybe you like painting so maybe creative is on that list right maybe you're a writer or an artist of some kind and you love just putting on music and drawing or sketching or painting so maybe feeling creative uh maybe flow is a word for you so you feel like time is endless and you don't need a timer or to look at the clock or respond to anyone so you want to feel in flow that that day is unlimited it's endless there's no there's no timelines or deadlines now the third part is planning your core daily time blocks that is I know that if you have a job this is going to be different versus if you're an entrepreneur if you're in school this is going to be different if you're you know a working adult but how do you want your day to look in terms of time blocks so I'll give an example I like to use kind of a visual time blocking system for what I want to do in my life so let's say nine to five this is all work so there's nothing there for you we go back to these tasks you know the resident's radar like let's say one thing I love is studying something I'm passionate about or painting right let's say here seven going to be painting okay and then eight and nine is maybe something related to your business like you know design a new course design course or maybe shoot a youtube video something that you're really really passionate about so basically you've reverse engineered how you want to feel day to day what in terms of concrete tasks and things to do what those look like that excites you do the most exhaustive list possible and then put these time blocks in your day and I would say the most important thing is besides scheduling those every single day remembering that there's a quote by Steve Jobs that if you see the world around you everything that you exist in this whole structure of nine to five society was designed by people no smarter than you so if you think you can't live your life any way you freak and want to you're wrong and you can design your life any way you want and you should you should ignore anyone who says you can't do that this method of journaling is one of the best ways I've seen to do that and design your perfect day all right guys download the free journaling worksheet and see the email course that goes with it and we'll catch you soon