Best-day reverse engineering · also called the ceiling audit
why cannot I have more days like my best day
Best-day reverse engineering is treating your single best day of performance as a specification to copy rather than a stroke of luck to remember fondly. Most people credit a great day to mood or energy and never examine what time they woke, what they ate, or what order they worked in, so the conditions that produced it are never deliberately rebuilt.
You keep waiting for that day to come back around. It was never luck. It was a recipe, and you never wrote it down.
What to do about it
Write down your best day hour by hour, then copy its structure on purpose instead of waiting to feel that way again.
Books that work on this
Each is a 90-day programme. Start with the first — later books assume the work in the earlier ones.
Quit Negotiating With Yourself$6.99
No One Cares$6.99
The Audit Day$6.99
The Discipline Blueprint$6.99
Discipline Over Motivation$6.99
The Iron Routine$6.99
Crushing Soft Habits$6.99
The 5AM Tax$6.99Part of the Discipline series.
How people say it
Nobody looks this up by its clinical name. These are the ways it actually gets said.
- why cannot I have more days like my best day
- I do not know what I did differently on my good days
- some days everything just clicks and I do not know why
- chasing the feeling of a great day instead of the routine behind it
- how do I make my best day the normal day
- I treat my good days like luck instead of a pattern
Written by Brian Spiker, who has run Spiker Carpet and Tile Care since 2013 — the receipts. More terms in the encyclopedia.