I remember that in a course I took one of the questions was to describe your perfect day. Waking up to a view of the sun coming over the palm trees and ocean or watching the sunset in the mountains may sound ideal. But is it realistic? I don’t live near any water and its so flat you can watch your dog run away for weeks. So how do we then create our perfect day?

I think it’s okay and acceptable to have something in mind that doesn’t quite exist – YET.

A few weeks ago I commented on someone’s IG story about how beautiful the numerous pictures of evergreens covered in snow were. His response was, “Time to push the move button”.

This got me thinking…about that perfect day or perhaps its really about creating the life I want to be living. While I do not live in a mountainous region right now there’s nothing wrong with wanting that as part of my perfect day. Maybe as new opportunities present themselves and life continues to unfold this is something that I can work towards. Perhaps a move is part of my future story.

But this certainly cannot detract from where I am now. So there’s a difference in how this question is answered. If you’re answering it thoughtfully as though you have created the life you want or are working on it that’s one thing. However if you’re answering the question from a place of frustration and wanting to escape your current life then its just a dream with no plan.

The other side of this is also being realistic about where you are NOW. There is more than just one aspect that would make the perfect day. So while location or view might be one it’s important to spend time on the other key components to this. Let’s take out of the equation any other people that might be involved and right now just focus on YOU & ME. If we’re not living where we want how can we get there? And while we are working at making steps in a new direction is it not possible to have perfect days where we are currently living?

Instead of creating a perfect day for one day let’s find ways to make our right now have perfect days. What would make morning be the best? How about bedtime? Wherever we live there will always be memories which can only be unique to that setting or place in time. So while its great to dream and make a plan to create the life you want, remember that you life has already started. It’s up to us to live it fully.

Life is what happens while you are making other plans ~ John Lennon ~