My Perfect Day and How You Can Live More Of Yours

7 elements to the perfect day

John Reel
4 min readNov 25, 2022
Photo by Roland Hechanova on Unsplash

Have you ever been asked to imagine your perfect day? It is a fun and useful exercise. It is useful because the more you focus on it, the more likely you are actually to live it. Not because of magic, but because when you focus on something you tend to work to make it a reality.

It’s fun because it lets you shake off the daily blues and dream of a better life.

When I was a teenager I used to work with my dad on an apple orchard. The days were long and hard. Dad thought planting trees, picking rocks, and working in the rain would encourage me to do well in school to get a nice white-collar job.

He thought I was lying when I told him I was moving away to go to college, but I made him proud when I graduated and started my first white-collar job. No more manual labour for his son.

It didn’t take long to realize that white-collar work isn’t much different than blue-collar. The difference is that instead of long days working with your hands, white-collar work is long days working with your mind. Both leave you exhausted at the end of the day and…

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John Reel

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