Welcome to 2026! May we all have a happy year ahead!
Today, I’m gonna introduce y’all to a life template for which I kinda judge I just reached grand completion for. Going into the future, it should remain at the base of my journeying. Of course, I maintain that while this may work for me, it may not be for everyone, so keep that in mind too.
Without further ado, I shall begin.
So basically… yesterday I listened to a Japanese podcast by Miku sensei which talked about reclaiming your happiness. For example, in work. Many people devote their entire lives to the causes of others, and in doing so, don’t live for themselves at all. And she said it’s so heartwarming when people tell her: Sensei, I join this class in my free time after work. That totally is me living for myself and what I enjoy!!!
Yeah, so maybe it’s not possible to give all your time to what truly fulfils you, but in the end state, it precisely is the case that the activities in your life are what light you up.
Sometimes we commit to too many responsibilities and burn ourselves out. What matters then is a shearing. We cut everything down to the top utmost priorities for ourselves. Upon that foundation that remains do we slowly build ourselves back up.
And today I would like to introduce an analogy here for what the ideal state might be like. Think of it as you being a gardener. You’ve grown multiple plants in your garden, all of these parallel to activities that well and truly align with you. So basically, what you do on a regular basis is water!!! those plants.
It’s like a mental checklist… Everyday, I would like to do Actions A-E. Therefore throughout the course of the day, as I amble about leisurely in my garden with enjoyment, I proceed to make sure that those plants are all watered one by one. And of course, there are some plants that I only water once or twice a week. When the time comes, I dutifully water those as well!
Now I’ll translate that to irl.
For instance, Duolingo Korean is the first thing on my checklist. It’s like generally the first meaty thing I do after waking up every day! And today haha! I reached a score of 15. And at 30 I’ll have graduated from A1 to A2 syllabus! That means I’m literally halfway there! And on a 40day streak as I have dutifully been doing 1 unit daily.
And after that I got Wordle-in-3. Lol.
Now. I understand that this is not very possible especially for those who have signed contracts and devoted themselves to strict going-to-office jobs. However you can also take it as reference for your own free time afterwards yeah.
So anyway. I have stuff that I try to do more daily than not, and I have stuff that I do once a week like this article at the very least, and I have stuff that I do twice a week too like extended Japanese sessions beyond the daily habitual light novel reading.
However, I must truly emphasise one thing.
While it is structured, yes, it truly isn’t a rigid inflexible rational doing thing. Rather, it’s much more, flexible, heart-based and spontaneous. Let me just give you a couple of examples… based on yesterday I suppose.
So for instance yesterday I was actually quite ambitious and wanted to work on my music. But then ah! I felt my energy at my heart space. I was burnt out. Sad. So what did I do? Well, I totally abandoned all those plans and made peace with the fact that I wouldn’t be able to do them today. No instead I whipped out Wuxiaworld and started reading webnovels. And I think I read nearly 10 chapters.
Now a bit of backstory. Previously in my self-discovery journey I had let webnovel reading fade into nonexistence in my life for a time. For instance in this webnovel that I’m reading, I’d literally let the unread chapters accumulate to 100+ of them! And yes, they are daily releases.
As of yesterday, I’m literally just 7 chapters away from the latest released chapter! And once I’ve caught up to it, either today or tomorrow for sure, I can start a new webnovel that I’ve been piling up chapters for or give some love to the Netflix shows that I’ve been letting sit forever!!! without giving any attention to at all.
So where was I? Many points came up. Hmm.
Yeah so, in the end, I spent my time reading fiction instead. My old flame hah. And you know, I literally even went straight for lunch and skipped the pre-lunch Dancefitme workout thing! I mean, what can I do? Follow your heart is the truth, I believe, and I simply couldn’t do it then. Well so be it.
And yet, despite only doing as I felt, I managed to complete the workout yesterday along with almost every single thing that I’d set out to do for the day! Woah! It was kinda incredible truly if I think about it. And yeah let me repeat that this is a fully autonomous and self-motivated kind of life, where you get to plan out everything you’re gonna do for yourself so. I totally get that it’s more aligned with a freelancer life, for example, then a typical 9-5.
Anyway yeah. Follow your heart. One more example. Yesterday night I was gonna read 2 daily Japanese webnovel pages. I’d just reached page 300 the previous night! Hmm, and if I’ve finished the 3 volumes already I’ve gotta go buy a new few hmm. But that’s besides the point. My eyes were tired and I knew it was physically not advisable to read those pages that day. So what did I do? Well, okay, I went straight to the Japanese podcast I’d set in my Monday schedule for myself! Right before bed yeah.
Or two days ago, I didn’t do Dancefitme because I kindly let my parents watch their K-dramas and I just filled it up with other exercises anyway!!
So you see, it’s totally flexible and comfortable and enjoyable okay, said lifestyle.
Now! Let me talk more about building it up.
Basically you can’t have too many things in it. Some things just don’t make the mark. Instead they may just feature in your life on a more occasional basis, even though technically you may like and be okay at them somewhat. Examples? Erm… like, for instance, strategy in risk or design on Canva…
Basically, imo you’ve gotta give them all your full true 100%. Aka kinda have a loving relationship with these activities haha. If love is the universal essence… okay, let’s just set metaphysics aside for today hah. But yeah. Do them justice. Just as multitasking sometimes is plain bad and you gotta be 100% immersed in something, and then man that feels good. And!! is so much more efficient too. Anyways.
Soak in the present moment and immerse yourself in these activities in true presence, engagement and fulfilment. And in between them, do remember to reset your nervous system! For instance, between Duolingo + Wordle and writing this article, I just lay down for maybe 10, 20 minutes and enjoyed some nice music. And I don’t really engage in activities unless I know my energy is truly ready for them. Usually my Taurus rising is just composed, serene and going at its own pace.
Oh, and I must say that one thing you can derive outta that is not to cram too many things into your day. At this point I feel that my overall structure is already quite robust and solid so. As someone who’s naturally inclined very much towards expansion, I gotta know when it’s enough already. Additionally, I must mention something about priorities as well.
Some things are your top priorities. In that case, especially if they’re more towards the later part of your day, you gotta make sure to conserve energy for them. Sometimes, it’s like this one thing, I must do today. Anything on top of that that I manage to do, is just a bonus! And on top of that as well! Not everything needs to be productive!
Like, I’ve found that part of my time now is spent on watching videos on Youtube… no, it’s a big thing. See, before that almost all the videos I watched on Youtube were about spirituality, metaphysics and such. And yet now I’ve progressed to the point where I’m back to living life instead… Basically… it’s kinda wasting time, loafing about and such, like totally so. Still, I give a vehement yes that it’s okay to just waste your time on cute cat videos and such.
Well, my preference is just some of it yeah. Atop also having already achieved goals you set out for yourself in the earlier part of the day.
Plus you freaking shouldn’t overload your nervous system! Give it a break too; don’t overwork it!!! Remember, the key is still the idyllic life so! Rest.
If you have to whenever go zone out doing nothing or go grab a quick mini bite. Have those nice recharge spacey intervals in between activities.
Yeah I must admit that for me the idyllic life includes a bit of doing many things here and there in being a multipotentialite welp. That’s just me so.
But hey, I’m totally sure it’s a balance of doing and being yo.
And it can totally be used as the foundation of a sustainable lifestyle too.
On interesting thing is that I used to be like at least 80% invested into reading fiction with all my time and energy. Like seriously. Now though, things are different! Like, once it exceeds a certain percentage, like maybe 15-20% at most, I’m out!!! Bye, I’m gonna go water another plant instead!!
I mean sure, some people may be more specialist and I used to be like that but now I’m truly more in the generalist camp in living my life activities so.
Finally, one last tip. Regarding having a loving relationship with your activities… See, don’t do them just because you want to complete them. For instance I really wanted to finish the 100+ yet unread webnovel chapters at the time. Still, I didn’t, and I just let it happen organically to the point where it is that I’m truly enjoying them. Let it not be just for the sake of an elimination of undone things. Rather than only doing them because you’ve nothing else to do, actually intentionally be carving out the time for it.
Idk, maybe I’m overthinking again but I just have this slight belief from somewhere that you’ve gotta approach things with the right mindset.
Because see, there’s this one perspective I would like to introduce.
Here goes.
We were once cavemen and understimulated all the day. That’s inevitable it was.
Now we’re in the global smartphone tablet laptop era and so run the risk of being overstimulated all the time yo!!!
So rather than always having to find an activity to fill you up, I instead recommend this.
If you aren’t doing the activity true by immersing in it true, hey. Why not just unplug yourself and do nothing instead. Rest your sad overstimulated nervous system!!!
I don’t actually meditate myself so I don’t believe it is for everyone whatever one might say, but if it is for you, yeah, it’s totally something you can do to let your mind come to rest, stop thoughts running amok.
So with that said I’ve come to the end of my article. Tbh I don’t really know or care what adjectives go well with this sort of lifestyle. Is it a soft life? Is it a hard life? Whatever. Idk. I suppose I’ll just go with idyllic life for it heh. Anyway it seems to be what works for me and a milestone!! really in my life. And it’ll probably serve as a foundation in future seasons of my life. So yeah, take whatever from it as you will as is relevant for your lives.
Daimon out.
Have an idyllic life! 🙂