Best Day Ever is 📝John Zdanowski's phrase for treating the present day as the best one yet, spoken as the affirmation "Today is the Best Day Ever," the opening line of his 📝Boot Sequence.
The phrase is an affirmation rather than a comparison with past days. It opens the Boot Sequence preamble, ahead of the lines declaring oneself free, the master of one's universe, and the narrator of one's own epic story. In 📝Why the Boot Sequence, John frames the idea as a good life being about having a good day, today, because there is no other day to do it, and closes with the instruction that if today is not the best day ever, one should tell a better story and repeat from the top.
The phrase rests on 📝Storyteller Consciousness, the idea that the stories we tell create the reality we see: calling a day the best one is a way of authoring it. It also closes the ethos John and 📝Jeff Abrams wrote for 📝BrightZen Systems, and 📝Activity Spectrum Analysis is John's method for working out what a person's own best day would contain.
Said aloud to friends or colleagues, the line tends to provoke incredulity, as if people think:
Really? Your best day ever was today? You flew here to meet with me and today was your best day ever? What about your wedding day? or The birth of your children? or That trip to Bali? or Your graduation. Surely, those were better days than this? What’s wrong with you?