an ideal day of life

I saw a video on TED that it's an Australian author who wrote a book about how he got himself back from the status of 'Fat, Forty and Fired'. His 2nd book, which I was more interested in, is called 'overworked, underlaid'. Which has nothing to do with my current situation but his first couple sentences in the speech was attractive to me. He said he was working 24-7 for his previous company and had no life at all although later on he found himself could do a great job to balance his life and work when he doesn't have a job. He spent a year not working and try to find his life back then realized he can't never learn how to keep these two elements balanced without working. Therefore, he emphasized that it's depending on ourselves to make the two balanced, not the companies, not your bosses.

First step, you need to set up an ideal life you want. Then he shared his ideal day which involved lots of sex :P with his wife and of course that's not gonna happen. Which means, there are lots things you want to accomplish but one day is too short and one life is too long. We need to find the adequate time period in between as a goal to your life goal. With that, you will then have a better picture and ideas of how to make it happen on time.

I found that very true. Most of time, people waste their time for endless work because they don't have anything else to do. To fill in that emptiness, they work and make themselves look busy while someone in the same situation might have energy and always have plans for the night after works or on the weekends.

It's a question that we should all ask ourselves while complaining.... What do you really want for yourself? and how to make it happen?

Within a month, I'm going to move in to our new house, the first real estate possession of ours.

While skim through pages of Home magazines, I can see myself more and more standing in a 'home' again. And this time, it'll be permanent which I haven't been for a location for a while, another big commitment of life, to a location, to a city, to a country. Things from here are all more clear now. No matter what an ideal day of mine will be determined, I've always have a home to reach at the end of the day, a home that I don't need to spend 24hrs on plane to reach on this side of the globe.