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April 16, 2010 at 11:07 am — by Laura | No Comments
Category: Blog, Inspiration

Today’s post is an excerpt from the book Coach Yourself to a New Career: 7 Steps to Reinventing Your Professional Life (Copyright 2010, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.), by Talane Miedaner.

It’s a great reminder that we have the ability to create our perfect lives right at this very moment—regardless of our stage in it.

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If you are struggling to create the ideal life, then start with one ideal day. Write down what that day would look like from the moment you wake up in the morning to the moment you go to sleep at night. Be as detailed as possible.

One of my clients did this exercise and realized that he could live his ideal day right then.

When you’re done, see if you can expand this description into a full week or ideal days. Next: start incorporating as many elements of your ideal day as you can into your life right now.

If you want to wake up to a butler coming in with croissants and coffee, don’t let it bother you if you don’t have the butler yet—start with the croissants and coffee.

One of my clients who performed this exercise realized that the perfect way to start the day was to go outside on her deck overlooking beautiful woods with a hot cup of tea and a fresh-baked blueberry muffin and write in her journal.

She baked a batch of muffins and put them in the freezer, bought a journal, and got started!

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What would you do in your ideal day?