Perfect Average Day and Principles

The Perfect Average Day is a powerful, transformational exercise that gets to the core of who you are.

Most self-help programs have an exercise called the “Perfect Day,” where you imagine the best day of your life, when all your dreams come true. The problem with that exercise is that it trains you to live for the future, rather than in the present. Most people get caught up in all these superficial desires—new house, new car, new toy, new recognition, new relationship. They focus on sacrificing life to have something someday, rather than creating life to be somebody right now.

The Perfect Average Day is not about an imaginary perfect day. It does not ask what you want to have for one rare occasion. It asks what you need to experience, every day, every moment, of your life. It recognizes that your life is a journey, not a destination.

The desire for an Olympic Medal, for an end result, keeps you going to get to that goal. But, if the only time you are happy is that few seconds when you win the gold, then all the training, dieting, and sacrifices would have been a waste. True victory comes from cultivating the resources within yourself that brings you happiness, outside of success or failure.

All that you ever get from your dreams will fade away—the money, the wealth, the fame. But, all that you even dare to become, because of your dreams, will stay—the strength, the honor, the love.  You need a destination, a Perfect Day, to get you going in life. Yet, you need a life, a Perfect Average Day, to keep you moving towards your destiny.

Your life is a masterpiece. It is not a masterpiece because it is finished, framed, and famed. It is a masterpiece because you live each moment as one. Each move you make is art. Each breath you take is sacred.

  • The Experience of My Perfect Average Day
  • My Perfect Schedule
  • Explanation of Schedule Categories
  • Habits You Need to Know
  • Performance Principles

The Experience of My Perfect Average Day

The Philosophy of Health, Wealth, Truth is my mission in life. There are 48 industries I want to change, 12 roles I need to be, and 20 passions I want to do (described in Business Innovations and My Profile of the Philosophy page). This is how I want to live my life:

  • Dawn: Wake up next to my love. Kiss her and warm our bodies. Write on the Dream Journal of lucid dreams, incubated insights, and other sleep technology. Walk outside to nature—waterfalls, lakes, oceans, mountains, and trees. Cultivate my Qi, with old ways and new paths. Grow my physical, mental, and spiritual life force through yin and yang martial arts. Experience supernatural, transcendental, and medical powers within me and within the universe. Shower in powerful streams of water that massages my entire body. Eat fresh breakfast, made with seasonal, local, and organic food, in my sustainable City-State of High-Density, Mixed-Use, Shared-Services, where everything you need is in one place.
  • Morning: Enjoy productive time alone in self-improvement and entrepreneurial work. Read, write, design, program, watch, and listen. Learn, think, and grow in new ways. Work in energy intervals (90 minutes of complete focus and 30 minutes of complete rest, for example). Eat a healthy, tasty, and small meal every 3 hours, prepared by the restaurant chef for all who lives in the building. Take 20 minutes power naps once or twice a day. Wear simple, comfortable clothes. Feel and look great, even though I never waste time to choose clothes, style hair, or groom much.
  • Noon: Eat a sit-down meal with my love. Talk about life, business, travel, events, and other passions. Our life is simple: find or create the best products, services, and experiences in the world, and distribute it in a way that makes the planet and people better and happier. The world is our city.
  • Afternoon: Decide on group work (meetings and messages) once I finish everything I need to do alone. Allow phone calls, messages, and meetings only after 2 pm. Execute on CEO, CMO, and BOA tasks. Coordinate with COO and CFO to make sure the businesses are reliable, scalable, and automatable. Be a serial entrepreneur who focuses on the start-up phase and delegates the day-to-day managerial duties to other leaders. Each day, take action that brings us closer to a revolution in each of the 48 industries outlined in the Philosophy of Health, Wealth, Truth. The goal is not a new house, but a new city for all. The gift is not a new car, but a new transportation system for everyone. The reward is not a clean environment, healthy food, and pure water for my family, but a sustainable ecosystem for the entire world.
  • Evening: Eat long dinners (healthy and light) with close friends and business partners. Enjoy inspiring, meaningful, or funny education and entertainment that touch the mind, heart, and soul. Once the food is settled, train hard in mixed martial arts, fitness, and sometimes other exercises (dancing, swimming, rock climbing). Learn from the best in each niche, personally or virtually with the body-sensor and virtual-teacher technology that records all vital body movements, health statistics, and progress with pictures, videos, and samples that auto-detects and auto-corrects all key-performance indicators.
  • Night: After an intense session where I surpass my limits and surprise myself with my power, I enjoy massage and spa with my love. I continue to improve in my massage and other renewal skills, and share them with my love. Take time to record and reflect our day together. Make sure that every day, we contribute to the world, help one person, learn something new, think something different, feel deep love, laugh, and grow physically-mentally-spiritually-emotionally-professionally-financailly-lovingly. Set the goals of the next day, and sleep so that I can dreams with eyes wide open again.

How do you want to live your life? What would make you excited to get up each morning? What do you need to achieve to feel peace at night? What emotions do you need to feel each day to be happy? What values do you live for? Who do you want to be? Who do you want to be with? Where do you want to invest your time?

This isn’t about when you achieve your dreams. This is about how you live your life. Life does not care how far your destination may be. It only asks that you take the journey. It’s not that each step you take brings you closer to your dreams. It’s that if you live your life the right way, your dreams will come to you.

My Perfect Schedule

  • 23:00-05:00_Goal Setting and Sleep
  • 05:00-06:30_Tao: Qi, Meditation, and Spiritual-Medical-Martial Cultivation
  • 06:30-07:00_M1: Complex Carb and Lean Protein
  • 07:00-08:30_Personal Development: Read, Learn, Travel, Think
  • 08:30-09:00_M2: Fruits or Vegetables
  • 09:00-10:30_Individual Creative Work: Write, Think, Design, Market
  • 10:30-11:00_Hypnotic Power Nap
  • 11:00-12:30_Individual Creative Work: Write, Think, Design, Market
  • 12:30-13:00_Complete Meal
  • 13:00-14:30_Individual Logic Work: Objective Re-Write, R&D, Manage, Finance
  • 14:30-15:00_M4: Nuts, Legumes, and Grains
  • 15:00-16:30_Creative Group Work: CEO, CMO, BOA
  • 16:30-17:00_Hypnotic Power Nap
  • 17:00-18:30_Logical Group Work: COO, CFO, Partner
  • 18:30-19:00_M5: Complete Meal
  • 19:00-20:30_Relationship Building Group Work: Educational or Entertaining Classes, Clubs, Careers, Travels, Meals
  • 20:30-21:00_Family and Intimate Relationship
  • 21:00-22:30_Intense Training: MMA, Strength, or Other Exercise
  • 22:30-23:00_ Recovery Drink, Relax, and Relationship

Explanation of Schedule Categories

  • Busy (Scheduled Appointments): Appointments, Classes, and Private Events. I display this as hidden information due to its private nature.
  • Goals (Monthly and Daily): Public Goals. I think about the next day’s priorities for 1 minute before I sleep. I do not write down the daily goal since it is broken down and scheduled to actions for that day. I also reflect on my weekly goals for 10 minutes a week. I do not record this goal since it is broken down to daily estimated goals at that time. I reflect on my monthly focus for 30 minutes a month. I do record this data on the first Sunday of the month.
  • Be (Personal Development): Mind, Body, Spirit, and Relationship. I invest 4.5 hours each in Be, Do, and Go—13.5 hours total a day—to be a Renaissance Man. The greatest driver of your business is you. You have to work on yourself before you can work on anything or anybody else. Personal development is the core of life. Professional development, relationships, and everything else build on that personal foundation.
  • Do (Entrepreneur Work): Research and Development, Management, Marketing, and Finance. The greatest geniuses worked alone to write legends, discover truths, and create revolutions. Everything begins with a single idea and a single individual. Writing, reading, researching, analyzing, thinking, learning, and training are solidarity tasks.
  • Go (Group Work): Classes, Clubs, Careers, and Travel. No man is an island. The strength of one of us cannot match the strength of all of us. Focus on what you do best, and delegate the rest. Surround yourself with people better than you. Learn from those who know what you do not know, and help those who cannot do what you can do.
  • Rest (Relationships, Routines, and Relaxation): Sleep, Housework, Errands, and Private. I use a 90-30 energy cycle of interval work, eat every 1.5-3 hours based on activity, and enjoy various ways to relax. During mealtimes, I do low-energy, fun activities that relax and renew me, such as massages and enjoyable exercises after light meals, or conversations and entertainments in larger meals.
  • Events I am Attending (Conferences, Seminars, and Workshops).
  • Events I am Hosting (Conferences, Seminars, and Workshops).

Habits You Need to Know

I invest 4.5 hours a day in Being (Personal Health and Growth), 4.5 a day in Doing (Individual Business), 4.5 hours a day in Going (Group Work), 4.5 hours a day in Rest (Relationships and Renewal), and 6 hours a day in Sleep. Even though I technically work over 80 hours a week (13.5 hours a day * 6 days a week), I live in complete balance of Health, Wealth, and Relationships.

I work 6 days a week and take 4 days off a month, 12 days off a quarter, and 1 month off a year. These trips are not “vacations” to “escape from work” that most people have. These trips are lifestyle choices to travel the world, to experience from the best, and to live in harmony now. This schedule ends up being 239 days of work, compared to the typical 250 days of work with the regular weekends and vacation schedule. It is amazing what difference 11 days, smart scheduling, and passionate work can do for your life. Each day, I go after my dreams, do what I love, and be who I am.

Some categories demand more focus on certain days. The key is committing 100% to the goal at hand, knowing that I am in overall harmony, like a clock that has all its numbers. Even though the hand may stick to different numbers at different times, it always goes around the entire circle.

The monthly goals in the Daily Appointments show the main focuses for that month. During writing periods, there will be little, if any, group meetings, as writing is a solidarity responsibility. During business phases, there will be less individual work time, since more tasks require teamwork. During intense training periods, there will be less energy for everything else. The Perfect Average Day is not about your exact schedule. It is about your life experience—the whole is greater than the sum of its parts.

The Perfect Average Day is not a map of life, but a compass. It guides you towards your destination. It is up to you to take the actions each day to fulfill your destiny. In the end, no matter what you create, sell, or write, the real product is you. You have to be more than your business, so that your business may be more than you.

It is easy to just be a workaholic who sacrifices health and relationships for temporary riches and fame. It is simple to only be a monk who gives up the world to focus on the soul. It is strength without wisdom to just be an athlete. It is softness without virtue to just be dependent on relationships with others. It is pride without vindication to live only for oneself.

It’s something else to be a lover, a friend; a warrior, a scholar; a philosopher, an entrepreneur. When you have the power to do everything in this world, and the wisdom to not be of it, you got something special. Each breath is poetry. Each act is art. Each life is love.

Most people work 8-12 hours a day. Out of all those hours, how many were essential to business success? Out of all the time you spent in the office, how many were meaningful to life? For the average worker, the answer is a mere 20% at best.

A healthy human being can sustain high energy for 45 to 90 minutes, at maximum capability. They can repeat this performance in the same field for 2 to 3 times a day at best. (Think about our ancestors who had 2 to 3 periods of intense “flight-or-fight” experiences a day, compared to our current work force that lives in constant stress about matters that seem “life-or-death” when they are mostly small and trivial—meetings, phone calls, emails, text messages, and other distractions.) Decide now to work in energy intervals and to only do what really matters. Imagine that you are under doctor orders to only work 2 hours a day. Surprise yourself with how much you can achieve when you go 100% for 2 hours, rather than 20% for 10 hours.

Performance Principles

All the principles are in the 7 Hour School Week. The program contains in-depth strategies and techniques to live your perfect average day and make your dreams come true. The 7 books each contain 7 chapters which each contain an average of 5 tactics, for over 245 strategies total. Please visit the Table of Content section on the home page to see all the techniques listed. I do not feel that a superficial explanation of the principles can do them justice. Thus, I simply choose seven key ideas and questions, so that you may do yourself justice:

  • Know Thyself: If you knew you could not fail, who would you be? If money no longer mattered, what would you do? If you could go anywhere in the world, where would you start? How would your perfect partner, both personal and professional, be like? Who would you have to be to attract that partner? How would you live your last year, last month, last day? Who would you spend it with?
  • Know Thy Time: How are you spending your time? What does your average week look like? How many hours do you spend on each type of activity? Does your time reflect your goals or priorities? Isn’t it worth taking a few minutes to make a time log of your week, so you can know what you are doing with your life?
  • Filter Information: Is this important? Is this relevant? What is the worst that can happen if I do nothing? What is the best that can happen if I do everything? What are the cost-benefits? Is this worth the trade-offs? Is this something I, and only I, can do? If not, how can I delegate or outsource it? If I knew what I knew now, would I still have made the same decision about this situation I am in? Why, or why not? How can I change it?
  • Context Chunk and Batch: Why allow other people to interrupt or distract you, ever? How can you make sure you only check other people’s messages (emails, phone, text, etc.) once or twice a day, in the afternoon? How can you start your day with proactive purpose, rather than reactive busywork? How can you allow similar work to batch up, such as mails, calls, and errands, so that you can do it all at once in the right context and avoid the set-up costs? Are you in control of your life, or does other people’s lives control you? Are you serving your tools, or are your tools serving you?
  • Energy Interval Cycle: Why is interval training, bursts of high intensity work interspersed with periods of lower-intensity or rest, far superior to traditional marathons of constant speed? Why do sprinters look so much stronger and healthier than long-distance runners? Which do you want to be? How can you apply the concept of interval training to your work? What would happen if you focus completely on one task for 90 minutes and rest completely for 30 minutes? What would happen if you took a 20 minute power nap to replace 2 hours of sleep? What takes more time, 100% work for 1 hour, or 10% work for 10 hours?
  • Review System: Do you have psychic stress by trying to store everything in your head? How much energy are you wasting by thinking about things you cannot do? Why not use a file system, a paper pad, or a digital database to store everything you have to do, so your mind can clear and focus at one single task at hand? Do you have a daily, weekly, and monthly review system set up? Can you manage what you cannot measure?
  • Be-Do-Go: Is the problem in my perception, my procedure, or my situation? Is it the way I am looking at things, doing things, or going places that is causing the problem? What is the solution? How can I prevent this problem from happening in the future? What can I learn from this experience? What can I change, and what can I not change? Do I have wisdom to know the difference? Am I making a living, or a life? Am I a complete human being? Am I making everything a nail because all I have is a hammer? How can I expand myself in every area—physically-mentally-spiritually-emotionally-professionally-financailly-lovingly? What is my philosophy of life? What is my psychology?
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