So many of us fantasize about the perfect day only to end up going to jobs we hate and creating lives that are good but not extraordinary. I know I’ve had to work extremely hard to create more “perfect days” but it’s not easy for most people to make this colossal shift.

I learned about this concept from “The Perfect Day Formula” and attending the 2-day event, “The Perfect Life Retreat” from the author, Craig Ballantyne. If you can learn how to create more perfect days, you’re sure to create a life you love. 

Here’s how to create the perfect day and ultimately, the perfect life.

Who is Craig Ballantyne?

Before I cover the fundamentals of creating the perfect day, I want to talk about the author, Craig Ballantyne. He’s a high-performance coach, best-selling author, and known by many as “Mr. Discipline.” In fact, he’s a machine for efficiency and productivity on a daily basis. 

He regularly wakes up at 3 am, writes for two hours, then does his morning routine, writes for another two hours and goes on with his day. Craig works with high-level entrepreneurs, runs elite mastermind programs, and speaks around the world. To accomplish all this, he’s become a master of his time and made it his life’s work to help others.

After suffering crippling anxiety attacks in his 20’s he decided no more. He changed everything about his life to working toward achieving his long-term vision. Now, he’s doing just that by helping everyday people to billionaire CEOs maximize their time and create their own perfect days.

Here are seven ways you can create your perfect life:

The Perfect Day Formula: 7 Steps to Proven Success 

1. Get Clear on What You Want In Life

The first thing we did at the event was thinking about our long-term vision for life. Not setting goals, but creating a big picture vision. Start by asking yourself questions like:

• Where do you want to be in 1, 3, 5, 10, and 20 years?
• Who will you be spending time with?
• What will you be doing on a daily basis?
• Where will you be living? Will you be traveling?

As Tony Robbins said, “We all need a compelling future, something will get us up and excite us. If you don’t’ have that, life feels very dead for high performers.

2. Create Four 90-Day Goals

Goals are great but so many people set too many or aren’t clear about how to get the result. Craig is very detailed about this process and recommends only setting four, 90-day goals. This way you can stay focused, committed, and not get overwhelmed. Plus, 90 days is great because you get a lot done and still stay motivated as the finish line is close.

Craig recommends setting these four outcome goals:

• Health goal: Example: Lose 10 pounds in 90 days
• Wealth goal : Example: Earn $5,000 dollars from a side business
• Social self goal (your relationship with others) – Example: Take your family on a vacation
• Personal enrichment goal (your own self-improvement) – Example: Read a book a week for three months

Then, for each of these goals create process goals. What is the process to make those goals become a reality? Write them down and review them regularly so increase the chances of making them happen.

3. Start an Empowering Evening Morning and Evening Routine

As Craig said in his book, “One of the reasons you must attack your number one priority first thing in the morning is that you are armed at that early hour with the greatest willpower to act and avoid getting into trouble. The morning holds the fewest external distractionS and temptations from other people.”

While you don’t have to get up at 3 am like Craig, it’s important to get up early and take advantage of the morning. Whether it’s working on a side project, investing in yourself, reading or spending time getting clear, it all helps.

But the morning isn’t a time to waste so make sure to plan your morning routine before going to bed. Spend 5-10 minutes recapping the day, journal wins, and plan what you’re going to do tomorrow morning.

4. Create Rules for Your Life

You might be thinking, “I don’t want rules in my “perfect day.” The only way you’re going to end up living a “perfect day” and life is to have a set of rules to get you from A to B.

As Craig said, “Your rules state what you will and will not do. Your rules automatically indicate that you make the right decision, making it easy to overcome obstacles and resist temptation.”

Some of Craig’s rules include:

• Going to bed at 8 pm and waking up at 4 am
• Writing for at least 60 minutes each morning
• Helping ten million men and women transform their lives

He has a total of 12 rules that are non-negotiable in his life. I’ve since done a similar exercise and found it much easier to say yes and no to certain decisions.

Figure out your own non-negotiables so you can eliminate willpower and distraction.

5. Make Health a Top Priority

Craig is also a fitness freak who’s appeared in Men’s Health, GQ, and other magazines for his jacked physique. Working out and eating healthy is a huge priority for him which is why he’s able to do so much in his life.

Let me ask, how is your fitness affecting your life? If you’re not exercising and eating clean on a regular basis it’s going to be extremely difficult to create a perfect day or life. Setting a clear health goal and making it a top priority.

Chance are, if your health improves so will other areas of your life. Discipline is contagious, a few small tweaks to your exercise or nutrition can positively affect other areas of your life.

6. Find Mentors and Coaches

As successful as Craig is, he still heavily investing in himself. He is involved in top-level masterminds and regularly hires coaches to help him grow in different areas of his life.

Do you have a mentor, coach or mastermind to help you improve your chances of success? I’ve personally spent thousands on them this year and seen a huge shift in the quality of my life. Sometimes paid accountability to someone who is where you want to be in life is an incredible motivator.

Remember, as Tony Robbins said, “Success leaves clues.” Model successful people so you can create your own version of success.

7. Surround Yourself With Successful People

The last way to create your perfect day is surrounding yourself with a group of like-minded people. It’s nearly impossible to achieve great things in your life with mediocre people. If something isn’t helping you, chances are they are hurting you.

Become relentless with your inner circle and friends becoming high-level individuals. Go to events, join Facebook groups, reach out to people you admire on social media.

Get a “whatever it takes” mentality to immerse yourself with winners. Not only will you enjoy your days more but you’ll enjoy the mindset shift that will help you become 100x more successful.

Use these seven hacks to create your own perfect day. String along enough perfect days, weeks, and months you’ll look back on the perfect life that you created for yourself.

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If you have, don’t worry, you’re not alone. Most people wake up and go to a job they don’t like, make it to retirement age, and go through the motions for decades in between.

Maybe you’ve wanted to change your life completely but aren’t sure where to begin. Becoming aware is the first step but making the change is the second step.

If you want to live an extraordinary life of success, health, wealth, and fulfillment you need to take action. Instead of waiting until the new year, get started now and start living a life that you love.

How to Change Your Life Completely: 4 Proven Ways to Success

1. Commit to A Morning and Evening Routine | 4 Proven Ways to Success

A great morning routine actually starts the night before. As Thomas Edison said, “Never go to sleep without a request to your subconscious.”

The Perfect Evening Routine

Before you go to sleep, spend 5–10 minutes with a journal to think of how you want your life to change. Start by writing out three wins for the day to feel accomplished and proud of your day.

Then, look at your goals and ask some questions about why you are struggling to achieve them. Instead of thinking of them too hard,  write out the problem and several questions asking for answers.

This will give you subconscious mind something to work on while you sleep. Another great method is to write your goals as though they are already complete or visualize them before drifting off to sleep.  

For example, instead of saying “I want to be a millionaire” write out “I am a millionaire.” Putting in the affirmative is a great way to trick in your mind into 

Then, I visualize for a few minutes each of these dreams as already completed to give myself a positive visual image before going to bed.

The Perfect Morning Routine

The best part of getting up early is that it allows you extra time to focus on you and your goals. It’s a time for you be proactive instead of reactive in designing your future. 

Here are five ways to create the perfect morning routine:

• Wake up on time – don’t hit the snooze button
• Do a brain dump in a journal to start each day fresh
• Exercise before you go to work so you don’t skip it later in the day
• Practice some type of mindfulness practice
• Eat a healthy breakfast or stick with coffee and try out intermittent fasting

All of these habits will set you up to crush the day and win the morning. Changing your morning and night routines is the first step in learning how to change your life completely!

2. 10X Your Goals | 4 Proven Ways to Success

How often do you think of taking your goals and multiplying them by 10? If your goal is to earn $100,000 in the next 12 months why not add a zero and make $1,000,000?

Ultra successful entrepreneur Dan Sullivan swears by the 10x method. As he said, “It’s a lot easier to go 10x on your goals instead of 2x.”

By choosing to 10X your goals you will gain intellectual engagement and emotional commitment. Once you are committed, your brain will act as a filter and get rid of anything that is unnecessary to your goal by delegating or deleting it.

With every decision you make moving forward your brain will see if it is helping or hurting your 10X goal. 10X vs. 2X made will help you create a totally different mindset to operate in the world.

3. Invest in Yourself | 4 Proven Ways to Success

As Warren Buffett said, “The best investment you can make is an investment in yourself.”

If you want to change your life completely you have to upgrade your mind to create new thoughts and new experience. You can’t change your life if you keep doing the same things over and over again.

The reason why investing in yourself is so effective is a principle known as “sunk cost fallacy.” The term tends to have a negative connotation because you are overvaluing something (i.e. relationship or business) and continue to stay with it when it’s clearly not working.

But as Benjamin Hardy said in Willpower Doesn’t Work, “Sunk cost doesn’t always have to be a bad thing. Actually, you can leverage this human tendency to your benefit.”

Essentially, by investing in yourself you put skin the game. You are telling your brain what is important and what is a priority. Whether it’s spending money on a coach, trainer, mastermind, or event, it will help you speed up success.

4. Change Your Environment | 4 Proven Ways to Success

Most books preach about discipline and willpower to achieve your goals. While those are needed, you also need to change your environment to shift everything else.

Your environment should create conditions that make your success inevitable. For example, if you want to be focused at work, you need to remove all distractions from your physical and digital workspace. If you want to eat healthy food, remove all of the junk foods from your house. If you want to get creative insights, get out of town and relax for a day or two.

Willpower fades but your environment can always be changed to help you reach your goals. Start by decluttering, cleaning, and removing anything that doesn’t give a feeling of success.

This may seem too easy but start by cleaning your desk or closet and you’ll notice a significant change. Your environment forms every aspect of your life. Don’t forget the power of a clean, clutter-free, and a well-designed area in your home and office. 

Start Changing Your Life Today | 4 Proven Ways to Success

Hopefully, these tips will help you learn how to change your life completely by creating new habits and rituals. As Napoleon Hill said, “Whatever the mind can conceive and believe it can achieve.” You can achieve more than you thought possible if you can begin to change things in your life. 

Remember, success and achievement of your goals will only come from getting outside your comfort zone. By changing your environment, routine, and thoughts, you can change your life completely. Once you are clear about your future you can use these lessons to accomplish anything.

Don’t expect change to happen naturally. As Tony Robbins said, “If you want life to change, you have to change. If you want life to get better, you have to get better. It’s the only way.”

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His secret weapon? Reading. When once asked what he would want his superpower to be he confidently answered, “Being able to read super fast. I’ve probably wasted 10 years reading slowly.”  

Learn how you can use the Buffett routine to live a better life.

Make Reading a Daily Habit

If there is any part of the Buffett routine you should take away from this is his insatiable appetite for reading. Warren Buffet is a voracious reader. Despite his age and billions of dollars, Warren still spends 80% of his day reading. It’s a habit he has practiced since the beginning of his investing career and one of the main reasons he is as successful today.

As Warren Buffett said, “Read 500 pages every day. That’s how knowledge works. It builds up like compound interest.” While reading is important he has also talked about how you need to evaluate and form an opinion of what you read.  

Learn to Think for Yourself

Whenever you finish a book, blog post or article figure out how this new information fits into your current reality and thought patterns. Learn to think for yourself. Always ask yourself how you can use this new information and how should you take action from your learnings.

Schedule Reading Time

Most people want to learn and read more but say they are too busy. If this sounds familiar start scheduling in time blocks during your day to make reading a daily habit. The morning works best as you’re more likely to stick with it and not skip it amidst the chaos of the day.

Don’t be afraid to put down your phone and stop scrolling through social media. It’s no surprise the average American reads one book per year while average CEO reads five books per month! 

Learn to Love Investing in Yourself

One of the best Warren Buffett quotes is, “The most important investment you can make is in yourself.” If you want life to change, you have to change. You need to adopt a learning mentality and strive to always be learning. Reading Warren’s main method of learning but you can learn and consume information in so many ways.

On your way to work start listening to podcasts on topics that interest you. Attend seminars to meet like-minded people and learn from ultra successful people like Tony Robbins or Brendon Burchard.

Warren Buffett has always said that his best investment ever was not related to finances but a public speaking course by the great Dale Carnegie. Without this investment in himself, he would probably not be the massive success he is today.

If you want to achieve success in any area of life, business, fitness, or personal, make reading your new habit of choice. Reading allows you learn from others success in a fraction of the time and a great way to stimulate your mind, regardless of age.

Start following the Buffett routine to learn more and make positive changes in your life.

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