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I would get a massage, maybe have my nails done. Meet a friend for lunch and try some "little plates". Then I'd go home for a nap with the canines. Later I would read...and then make someone play Scrabble with me....cook something I've never tried for dinner....watch a movie and go to bed on clean, fresh sheets. I may stay home today. It's raining like an ark's being built!!!!
Dreaming including visualizing, imagining, creating and painting.
Creating and connecting with my heart, hands, eyes and mind.
Laughing, hiking, shopping, being naughty, and creating beauty!
MORNING:
I’d have a small breakie of all bran with almond milk before going on a 10-km run through a park or along a trail. I’d be listening to a new playlist on my own iPod. After a coldish-shower with yummy soaps, body scrub and face wash with cream, I’d dress in a favourite outfit!
AFTERNOON
I’d spend the next few hours writing without disturbance. For work. Maybe it’s an article on Mexico and my Kundalini experience. Meet the girls for a late lunch. We gab and sip wine. I check voicemail and reply to a couple work-related writing queries.
NIGHT
It’s a massage at 7:00 p.m. and then a nutritious homemade dinner with Drew. The stereo rotates some great tunes. Crosswords before bed.
9:00 - Have the children's portion of pancakes and bacon at Cracker
Barrel in Fishkill, NY.
11:00 - Ride the Metro North train down to NYC for a matinee.
3:00 - Discovery walk around the City before getting back on the
train.
7:00 - Treat myself to a chicken parm dinner at Copolla's Italian
restaurant in Hyde Park, NY, as I work to develop marketing
"packages" that will get my customers really excited.
Ahhhhh... 24 hurs to fulfill my interests... How wonderful is that thought!!! It's like a waterfall appealing to all my senses full of possibilities...
I would start my day with meditation, and prayer soft music and a soft candle lit to start my day communing with my Higher Being... which I do today.
Secondly I would head to a Yoga class to limber and "treat" my body...
Following the class I would pursue my dream of being cardio fir, and really go for a run...
Tend to my dwelling would be next... Make my surroundings absolutely divine, and allow creativity into this sanctuary by lighting my candles, and playing my soft music.
My creativity still in place: I would pursue my three passions: writing, designing and sewing and painting... All three... Love them... and to treat myself I would entertain a few friends if it happens to be Saturday!!!
Oh, glory! What a great way to spend time!!!!
Bisous,
Cécile
2. Trip to spa for facial and massage
3. Shopping at little unique home and/or paper stores on walk to...
4. Art Museum...home to change for a nice...
5. dinner with a good friend at a resturaunt with a great atmosphere and good service (pomegrante margaritas, perfectly coooked steak...and why not a great chocolate dessert (it is my perfect day...so no weight gain.....)
As it happens, I am mostly free today. I guess I know what to do!
*Read for a while then work on a crossword
*See one perfect client in their home
*Create something
*If one was available and affordable, I'd eat the perfect meal, made by my chef
1.) I'd take even more time to brew my special Starbucks espresso roast coffee and leisurely eat a healthy breakfast while enjoying the view in my backyard.
2.) I'd read, and read and read...all of the books I've been buying and never have time to read!
3.) I'd enjoy time with my hubby and my children just playing...no rules, pure playtime!!
4.) Cook a fantastic dinner and dine with glass of Shiraz.
5.) Connect with God, read and study bible and enjoy the beauty
6.) Watch back-to-back episodes of I Love Lucy!!!!!!
7.) Sleep 12 full, luxurious hours
There, that should do it!! :)
1. I would go for a walk if the weather permits. I'm trying to walk alot more - to the library, grocery store, walmart, and any other errands around town to save on gas.
2. I would read - whether thats in my apartment, at the library or at a bookstore.
3. I'd probably watch alot more tv and dvds.
4. I'd like to think I'd cook and bake many wonderful things to eat yet not gain any weight (losing weight would be even better!).
First, I will learn more of how to create. The Hicks book on creating what I want will be a big help.
Second, I will tear down the hideous rose-colored homemade blinds in the living room left there by the previous owner.
Third, I will study more on my professional specialty.
Fourth, I will have lunch with my friend Julie.
Fifth, I will read spiritually meaningful material.
Sixth, (well....I have a whole week, not just one day!) I will plan my career for the next year.
Seventh, I will have spaghetti.
- Cook something that takes a long time (risotto or cream puffs)
- Read
- Work-out
- Write
- Sew
We can achieve that!
Reflect: read, meditate, be a lump.
Indulge: get a massage, eat (but not cook!), drink wine, watch movies.
Connect: have an uninterrupted 4 hour conversation with my man - geesh, I still can't get enough...
2. Sweating: Running, yoga ... whatever makes me feel like I showed thanks for my healthy body.
3. Eating: I am talking fabulous food and wine here, people.
4. Love: My fiance, family, kitties, and the people with whom I come in contact on a daily basis.
5. Spirituality: Working every day to connect with the greater powers that surround me.
Here are my 5:
1. Mind Blowing Sex, or, an encounter with nature and the universe that feels like mind blowing sex.
2. Wandering in one of my favourite Toronto hoods (Kensington, Queen street?) and poke into shops that sell books, stationary, furniture, clothes, truffles or organization solutions. Or any shop that looks like candy.
3. A writing date. Me alone in a cafe that gets great light, plays great music, serves fair trade coffee and attracts other writers.
4. Time with friends and phenomenal food where I can tap into rebellious teenage energy, drink scotch, laugh REALLY LOUD and be saucy.
5. Building Halloween props with my Honey
Cécile
On first thought my list would include:
writing (morning pages - must get back to them)
reading (for fun and elucidation)
communicating (with positive well-chosen words, written and spoken)
relaxation (yoga, great TV {hurray for DVD TV!}, walk in the park)
connecting (with friends, family, colleagues, my guys)
Everything else that happens in between - driving in rush hour, cleaning house to be a great host, waiting in line at Starbucks - all lend themselves to the anticipation of that which I love to do.
It is only when life is rushed and I have to do something without have a positive reward that I despise traffic. :O
1) Exploring ( mostly outdoors, but also included rummaging for my birthday cake in a large truck with the words "Indulgance" elegantly painted on it
2) Movement and exercise (cycling the South Shore of Nova Scotia),
3) Being creative (transforming from cyclist to dinner guest on the beach was pretty creative!),
4) Appreciating/reflecting (so easy to do in and by the ocean - soothes all the senses, then relax seaside and be served a fabulous meal & enjoy great conversation)
5) companionship (with good friends and connecting with new people, and celebrating with family - a birthday and a soccer championship)
Me on the other hand - well I find pockets between all the other stuff - Not that my life is not full of things I love to do ....some of my love is hard love other bits of it are softer and more forgiving. I love to read, play out my creative ideas, eat and drink fine foods and wine, witness spectacles of wonder, hang with my best friends. This does change at times I find that my creative reality allows me to shift from one passion to the other quite esily.
2) Walk in the nature with my camera.
3) Laugh.
4) Meditate
5) Cook pure, organic, fresh, simple food!!!
Sensual pleasures: some fabulous food, one of my favorite teas, some music that inspires me to move or be creative or drop within myself, a lavender/geranium bath, all experienced in a sanctuary of an environment free of clutter, full of space, splattered with color and beauty
Creating and giving: offering myself to a project that inspires or offering presence and love to people throughout the day
Add in some writing, reading, and a massage every few days and I'm in heaven.
Pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeease!!! That is a slice of heaven!!!!.... I miss the fireplace like I never thought I would!!!!!! I promise... Yes, I love the aroma of brewing coffee and the freash bagels with cream cheese... maybe a tiny bit of nova won't hurt... YUM!!!!!!!
Oh, my!!! You have made my morning.
Cécile
My things:
1. Become a habitual runner/swimmer/yogi
2. Journal & Meditation
3. Inspiration via the web
4. Good music & quality time with my son (no TV)
5. People. Hustle & bustle. My camera.
6. Creative outlet of my daily choosing
7. Quality family time and laughter shared with my Loves
8. A good book
9. And yes, great sex.
I cheated a little by going over five but this would be a day filled with my necessities. I'm a stay at home mom and my good days look a lot like this. I am blessed.
2. a coffedate with a friend including a trip to an art museum
3. being creative and using my design skills/ reading/watching movie for inspiration
4. making a great dinner and invite all my friends
5. A walk in the dark with my camera
2. Activity with friends
3. Reading
4. Making dinner with my husband
5. Long walk with my dog
I didn't include food and sex - just like I didn't include air and water...
2. Moving my body: dancing around my apartment, going to an exercise class, lifting weights at home.
3. Love: Appreciating my friends, my family, my significant other (appreciation can take the form of an e-mail, phone call, sex haha)
4. Nourishment: good food, healthy food.
5. Lots of laughing and smiling. As little drama as humanly possible.
spending time creating... something (blogging, journalling, painting)
spending time in nature (e.g. walking in a beautiful forest or watching the sun set)
laughing & loving family & friends (chris & muki, my sister & her family, my mother & grandmother)