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Posted by Gracie2 on October 30, 2001, at 2:13:07
Almost every self-help book I've ever read will start out with the edict that if you don't have a map, you'll never get to where you want to go. This is to inspire you to set goals in your life so you don't just wander around aimlessly.
Usually I'm too horrified to even consider this. It would mean getting rid of nearly everything I own, changing everything about my life, and crawling out of one's rut is a terrifying thing.
However, since we are just ruminating here among friends that will hold you to nothing...
I would sell everything and buy a little house somewhere on the beach on the Gulf Coast. I would decorate it in Shabby Chic and set up my easel on the sand in the beach and paint sunrises and sunsets. I would learn how to dive and pet dolphins and sail boats.
That's all I want.
-Gracie
Posted by akc on October 30, 2001, at 15:15:38
In reply to Okay - where would YOU be?, posted by Gracie2 on October 30, 2001, at 2:13:07
I wouldn't move. I like the city I live in. But I sure would change careers. I would be helping folks -- maybe like that show, the Guardian. Actually, if I had to choose this moment, I probably would help people get social security disability, especially mental disability cases. I would also lose weight. I would keep my house clean. I would watch less TV and read more books. I would be part of this community, not just someone who lives here.
akc
Posted by susan C on October 30, 2001, at 15:34:30
In reply to Re: Okay - where would YOU be?, posted by akc on October 30, 2001, at 15:15:38
Living Without a Goal, james Ogilvy(1995)..havent read it yet...but it exists on my spouse's livingroom bookselvs of 1000 books and 600 CDS.
I would like to be well enough to count on, so I could go visit my son in Japan next year.
I want to learn Kanji and speak some japanese
I would like to be spontanious again and at the drop of a hat, go where ever I wanted. I would travel at the speed of light
I would live where I live, but I would go places and stay there for a year, like San Francisco, New York, Kansas City, Cinncinati, Chicago, Seattle, San Diego, all the National Parks and Italy and England and learn all about them and ride the buses and visit all the museums. and sketch and paint and send the paintings back to a warehouse where they would be stored, just to look at when I get back.
Never get a cold, or be physically sick.
come up with a cure for what ails, you and you and you and you and give it away for free on the condition that you do somethings for others
and love my husband more than he loves me.
mouse taking the opportunity to be selfish.
susan C
Posted by sar on October 30, 2001, at 16:00:20
In reply to Okay - where would YOU be?, posted by Gracie2 on October 30, 2001, at 2:13:07
i'd be living in the south of france. having won the lottery, i could devote my time to animal rights causes, learning how to design clothes, laying around on the beach, and sitting at sidewalk cafes with the love of my life (whomever that may be...).
i'd have a personal trainer and masseuse.
drink the best wines but not to excess.
speak french as if i were a native.
hop on a plane to costa rica if i ever got bored, to swing from banana trees with monkeys.
having acupuncture.
playing with children.
learning how to play the guitar.
organizing benefit concerts--*good* ones.
working with a real yogi to improve my Sun Salutation etc
taking the train to Holland to just sit and smell the tulips
Posted by Gracie2 on November 1, 2001, at 5:13:50
In reply to Re: Okay - where would YOU be?, posted by sar on October 30, 2001, at 16:00:20
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