When you get to the point where all the chores are done. Check. Everything is caught up on. Check. Bills paid up. Check. And you finally get that chance to Just Relax… or Just Focus on YOUR stuff. Yk… that novel in rough draft last chapters unfinished. The dream of Your Trilogy. Your Gallery Exhibit. That restoration rusting in the garage. That woodshop collecting regular dust instead of SAW Dust.
What does it look like when your life opens and all that time is now yours?
This is the Perfect Day Experiment. In this Imaginary space, Healthy/Money/Location is not a problem. Everything is fixed and you have no worries. If you are broke or in bad health, for the sake of the experiment you have to imagine this is not the case. You go through your entire day imagining what the Perfect Day would be Within Reason and keeps you alive. The metaphor used in the lecture I heard went like, “…if your perfect day is about snorting lines of cocaine off of naked prostitutes, binge drinking and driving recklessly under the influence… clearly you will not live through that lifestyle long.”
Darwinism at work.
That is the caveat: Something you can live through, and live with. Think of the movie Ground Hogs Day. Imagine this is the day you live over and over again. Except… not fumbling to figure it out as Bill Murray does comedically through the movie…
A little slice of Heaven.
>>> A day so satisfying you don’t care that it is on endless repeat.<<<
What time do you wake? What do you have for breakfast? What is your home like: bedroom, kitchen, bath? Perfect, not trendy… not glossy magazine. Perfect for you.
This part is about using your senses. Eyes- sight, Ears-hearing, Mouth-tasting, Nose-smelling, and Skin-textures and temperatures.
Where is this home? Will you work? Have a job? A commute? How is that done? (Some people like trains/buses/bikes/walking) If you have your own vehicle, what kind? What kind of music while traveling?
Where do you work? What kind of work? What are your co-workers like? >>> Even if the co-workers irl are jerks, making lunch break a mini-hell…
>>> in your IDEAL work environment, what would the imaginary co-workers be like? (More supportive? More encouraging?)
What is your lunch like? Would you go out, what kind of place? Who would you eat with? What kind of conversation would happen? (Enthusiasm about their hobbies/trips/projects/work, … curiosity about yours?) What do you do socially? After-work, who would you spend time with? What kinds of things would you do? Follow with dinner, late night and bedtime.
The experiment is not designed to induce LACK. It’s to help you find what works for YOU. What you really really want.
It’s easy to list all the nonsense and bs you don’t want to have to deal with on a daily basis… (that you are probably currently dealing with, even if you don’t say it out loud.)
(And btw I am proud of you for that. The whiney-ass complainers are bad enough. I respect that you keep your drama-stuff all tucked in and hold that professional bearing. I strive to be more like you in that way.)
On Topic:
Example: I would like my car to smell like leather even though there is no real leather in the car anywhere.
I can get a leather scent air freshener. Thus: I have moved my perfect day one degree Closer.
Dial it in. It’s funny to think this is old radio jargon, where the Listener could rotate the dial on the box to search the frequencies for radio signals. NPR at the low end and Hard Rock/ Pop toward the high end. Funny how that self-sorted over time.
This is slide toggle digitally speaking… just not sure the world is ready for the vocabulary shift.
Toggle it up one degree.
Incremental. The more you tune out the static, and annoyance and tune in to what is Better For You. For your goals, your ambitions, your focus, your Peace…
The closer to a perfect day… becomes every day.
Now, I know, my haters are going to flip-the-script into the snotty immature… “oh did you hear her?! She’s a perfectionist! …” or some such.
Not at all what I said. Please read more carefully.
The perfect day experiment is about your tuning into what works better for you. To slowly shift lack thinking toward solution thinking. It is not about pointing at others and trying to judge. It’s about understanding that you don’t have to sit through those conversations, example: Day 1233 of “that bitch left me…” at the employee break room.
Realize… you can leave, eat lunch outside… Your perfect day did involve more cloud watching afterall!
Now, I know, my haters are going to flip-the-script into the snotty immature… “oh did you hear her?! She doesn’t care about other people… She is a sociopath…” or some such.
I am NOT OBLIGATED.
The more you eliminate the Static, (people, places, things)
Tune-IN to the Topics that matter to you…
Tune-In the Work that drives you…
Tune-In to what feels Full-Filling…Makes you Whole… or whole-some-more.
The more tuned-in… the more you see/hear/smell/taste/realize how completely Out of Tune… self-defeating habits, stuck people, hopelessness/helplessness environments, and Lack paradigms are…
Warning Bluntness Ahead.
I want more of My Heavens,
And Less of Other People’s Hells
About the Art; my Notes on the “Railway” map challenge. My cub wants to try to run games online. Her friends want to play in Obojima, so she gets excited. I can make it to the Train Station in Sunken Town! She sends some pix from the book.
Next article: Long list of things I should have been told before and why the information she sent was Not Enough Information. In center Map that answers all the questions the cub and book, or online fan sites don’t. I figure there are probably a couple more rail lines. I will use red and orange tracks to mark them in future if I continue mapping Obojima railways.
As is, my map could be posted and more importantly Opened by the other cartographers. I will save and post a basic version. Tonight I am taking it next level with flora and fauna… with abstract lighting, effects, fog, clouds.. Extra touches.. Quest related assets (props) and shooting the video…
Will post premiere when done.
Traveler Chimiru 
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