The quality of the life you lead is a function of the position you hold, not primarily what you do, which is why this instalment focuses on connecting your best state to the genuinely mundane parts of your day, rather than treating it as something reserved for significant moments.

The objective is straightforward: align the essence of who you are, at your best, with doing ordinary things. If you’ve worked through the earlier exercises in this series, you’ll have a word or phrase that captures your best state, along with a sense of how you physically access it. Run through that access sequence now, and hold the question: from this state, what’s possible? The honest answer, when you’re genuinely in it, tends to be close to “anything.”

From there, choose three deliberately unremarkable things you do regularly (brushing your teeth, driving, cooking dinner) and imagine doing each of them from this state. Not as a special performance, but as the new baseline for how these ordinary moments actually feel.

The next stage in this series addresses what happens when something threatens that state (the particular people or situations that reliably send you over the edge) and how to handle those moments without losing the ground you’ve built.