day 6- your perfect day

day 6

Mind Alchemy Day 6

Today is another great exercise to help you think about what you ultimately want to do with your life and what direction to take.
Your Perfect Day is an exercise used by a lot of coaches to help clients clarify what they really want to do with their life, and it’s an extremely powerful exercise to introduce images into your mind of where you want to be, say in the next  1 year, 5 years, 10 years.
I have asked clients with alcohol issues to do this, typically here is how it goes:
They describe their perfect day for around 10 minutes and go through all the scenes in their head and tell me about it.  99% of the clients with alcohol issues don’t ever mention having a drink in their perfect day.  When I point this out to them at the end of the exercise a lot of them are stunned by the thought that their perfect day would not involve alcohol in any way.  It’s another way of moving forward: getting the client to admit, visually, that they do not want alcohol in their lives.
The exercise has a similar effect on clients I life coach for.  When the exercise is done correctly you may find some things out about yourself you hadn’t previously thought about.
Take time to really get into this exercise, it can take 30 – 60 minutes so make sure you allow some time to complete it.  It’s better to do it in one sitting, that way you are working on it on a subconscious level, and not thinking about it too much, your subconscious already knows all the answers to the questions, but if you think about it too much your conscious mind gets in the way.

How to do the exercise

First of all download today’s exercise worksheet, which you can use to describe your perfect day.
Download perfect day exercise here
Now, write out your perfect day in the form of a story you are telling someone else.  To help you get the best out of this exercise try and make it as vivid in detail as possible.  When you are writing your story answer all the questions below.

Your perfect day questions

What time do you wake up?
Who do you wake up with (if anyone)?
Where are you living?
What does your bedroom look like?
What does your house look like?
What does it smell like?
What do you do when you get up?
What do you have for breakfast?
What are you be thinking about?
How do you spend your morning?
What do you have for lunch?
Who do you eat with?
What are your friends like?
What would you do for personal development?
What is your life purpose?
What is your business/job?
What time do you start work?
What would you actually do at work?
What are your clients like?
What is your relationship like with spouse? Family?
What do you do for family time?
Where would you eat?
Who would you eat with?
What do you talk about?
What time would you go to bed?
How are you feeling when you go to bed?
What do you think about before you close your eyes?

Your perfect day

If you want to share your perfect day stories you can share them here.

Tomorrow

Tomorrow we will be looking at your thoughts and how we go about cha



Today is another great exercise to help you think about what you ultimately want to do with your life and what direction to take.

Tell your perfect day in story form

answer these questions during the story
What time do you wake up?

With gentle sunlight streaming through the windows i stretch and open my eyes to see its 9am on the clock I roll over and see mark laying in bed holding our child.

Where are you living?
Its time to join the world by walkign through our organised and tidy house,the where isnt important, as long as my most important people are with me and i have my neccesities a house is always home.
What does your bedroom look like?
my bedroom is organised and airy and roomy
What do you do when you get up?
i make my way to the bathroom, do my facial routine and go have some breakfast
What do you have for breakfast?
Whatever is part of my eating plan ( cereal, fruit, toast juice, up and go,banana, eggs)
What are you be thinking about?
i'm sitting out on the mini deck enjoying the outside and air planning the day, thinking about the things to do for the day, the chores that need doing, the plans for dinner, when mark is working
How do you spend your morning? a trip to the gym would be great before it gets too hot, some meal planning and dinner prep, and some scrapbooking and photography

What do you have for lunch? - whatever is on the menu plan
Who do you eat with?
my child and often my husband

What are your friends like? Understanding qirky helpfull inteligent close as sisters and vibrant buddies
What is your life purpose? Raising a family and creating lots of meaningful images and life albums for people while working on some motivational groups and meetings
What is your business/job? Photographer blogger and group motivator
What time do you start work? whenever i want to
What are your clients like? Bright bubbly people with a spark for life and a reasonable time scale.
What is your relationship like with spouse? Family? Loving complete and equal being able to talk about anything and come to a compromise that benifits us both and our family the most
What do you do for family time? walks and picnics family game nights bbqs and bike rides
What time would you go to bed? routinly at about 12 i fall asleep after no more then 20 mins and sleep peacfully all night
How are you feeling when you go to bed? satisfied with the day and whats been done not worrying about anythign not yet done or to be completed