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Mags30

elantan wrote: »

so maybe then for you with money it isnt an exact figure ... maybe it's an attitude you are looking for ... there are peole with billions of pounds that still dont feel as if they have enough ... and others with next to nothing ( i work with a few in the soup kitchens) that dont want money they are happy and feel their needs are met ... so maybe its an attitude thing then ... i know for me it is (but then i do have an attitude:) )

well what i wasnt going to tell you (but hey might as well) a couple of my perfect days are spent with hubby in bed ... we like to do this as often as were able to and we both love it ... just reading chilling ahem ahem to our hearts content ... those days are some of my favs ... but again they are days (cause a week wouldnt be enough ) (and i didnt say how many days lol)

Thanks Elantan, that makes sense to me, it is more about attitude for me, I could list things I want for you. Achieving those things is what success will be for me so yes money is just a means to an end. But things like home improvements do require money so I do have to work on money. I'm not targeting a massive income but I can be a bit materialistic so I'm certain the queue at the soup kitchen isn't part of my perfect day!

Must find a man to share duvet days with;) When I said duvet day I was actually thinking of a day spent reading a Jodi Picoult book in bed with occasional breaks for food and the phone switched off! Your duvet day sounds much better than mine!

elantan

ClootiesMum wrote: »

we call these duvet days - we might gravitate to the living room with the wood burning stove lit but the duvet comes with us

we've been married so long we need something to nark each other about & it can be who's stealing most of the duvet

You know that couldve been me that wrote that ... We gravitate to the living room as well ... No wood stove but a coal effect fire ... Looking out our big window in the living room to the birds on the apple tree eating the nuts ... Then up the hill to see the sheep and cows grazing then at night watching the bats badgers foxes and toads scuffle about on the verandahh .... It deff counts as a perfect day



That was another thing I did notice when doing that excercise .... I have had many many perfect days already I'm so lucky ....am excited about the prospect of more though

scaredy_cat

* i want to live in elantan's house!!!*

Mags30

Perfect days are easier to think up than perfect weeks. I don't want to repeat the perfect days every day. I mean I don't want to spend the whole week in bed reading a book--that would make me depressed for being so lazy. I don't want to meet friends for lunch every day. I don't want to go to the cinema every day. I don't want to buy designer shoes (with cash) every day. I need to work out some perfect working days to alternate with the perfect days off.

Shoe_Gal

Memory_Girl wrote: »

Lovely smellies - shower cream and body butter
a novel "one moment, one morning"
a pink poodle (supposed to be a screen cleaner but ds2 has snaffled it already and is asleep clutching it to his wee cheek).
fluffy pink socks - how cool is that??
chocolate - and more chocolate:D
and a set of barbie pink las vegas playing cards - perfect for a girlie poker night.

Fantastic book - just read it and loved it

savingholmes

Kittikins wrote: »

Having read MG's Business book properly this morning, I'm all fired up and have just been wandering around the Victoria area of London looking for some nice coloured pens this lunchtime to help me draw pretty maps Haven't found the *perfect* ones though yet, lol.

Asda are selling a big pack of fine liners or gel pens for £2 lots of colours for all of us!!

ClootiesMum wrote: »

I don't think you realise how much our lives revolve round this at the moment
And at work today when talking about what we're doing tonight I said I was waiting impatiently for Mr Big's update at 7pm. They now think DH & I work to a schedule

That make me laugh really loudly!!!!:rotfl:

I wrote myself a letter back in March from 5 years in the future - that described different things going on in our lives so I think I will dig that out and see if that helps. I liked your way of breaking it down Mags too in terms of sleep time etc Realised I need to add a cleaner on to my must have list :rotfl:

Not even had chance to look at the latest update yet... either!:eek: Will do that now....

MG - loved the idea that you are going to just do a quick swish round.... stops putting us lot quite as much to shame :T:rotfl::T Seriously I have a cleaner for 3.5 hours a week as it is more cost effective than me doing it and better for my marriage and relationship with my kids!

Wol2

Wow Hun - Great news about the car......:T:T:T

As for anything else..well MG I think you know my thoughts

Stay strong to yourself and your family, make your decisions in your own time...... and wishing you all the best because YOU ARE WORTH IT AND DESERVE IT


Ooops :eek::eek: quelle surprise....:D.where did THAT last sentence come from :o:o :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

Mulchos huggios and shhhhh ( I geddit....don;t mention the piggies :cool:)




Aww Gracious Adopted Auntie MG..how could you forget about us wheek wheekk :rotfl:

Love from your (new) nephew Beechie Boy
xxxx

xxxx

troglodyte

Firewalker, thanks so much for taking the time to reply to my question. Will do some more research!

MG, glad yu had some nice surprises today! Fitting wing mirrors is fiddly but straightforward, once you've got the inside bit off the door you should find some bolts there to undo. If they're electric mirrors that might be a bit more difficult though but just take it gently.

Off to check the blog now!

dirtyepic

Hi all of you motivated and positive people, last night I finished reading this whole diary it's taken quite a few days but the inspiration it is spreading is quite addictive. As soon as I saw that MG was selling her mind mapping books I pm'd her and she replied very quickly. On finishing this diary I now realise that she was in the process of completing the daily mr big challenges and still she has sent out her book which I hope to receive later this week. I am very grateful for this - to me an act of kindness when, so easily she could've put this off till a more suitable, later date. Thanks MG.

I am currently, by recommendation of numerous posters on this diary, reading The Secret. I am not a great believer in 'self help' styled books but I am a rather negative place at the moment and it's lifting me, slowly but surely, to realising that I can be that positive person, inside and out, all over again!

I am away from home at the mo, for work. This is something that will change in the future because the inspiration from you all, from the secret and also from my new book, is helping me.

Oh yes and today I started to catch up on MG's blog, I joined and subscribed yesterday and I am going to attempt the challenges. Albeit a few days behind, I am determined to catch up.

All of this would never have happened ic it wasn't for Whatatwit (I hope I have got your name correct) who recommended this diary after perusing my diary last week. I have let my good friend, my diary, down over the past few days but a lot has happened and I promise to return.

So I am now unlurked, subscribed, inspired and catching up!!

Hoping this will be a long and successful friendship. Good luck all and good night.

Thanks again Whatatwit and MG.

T
Aka dirtyepic

moo2moo

Had one of those 3am Eureka moments. Approach the Open University and persuade them that they have a need for a Study Skills course teaching their students how to study before they start. As a pilot programme focussing on the Scottish regional students (as an example) you could prove that people benefit from your techniques and also that they are willing to pay for them as an aditional module. Of course looking at the OU pay scale the salary is carp but when you think how many of these students study alongside their normal day job you get to wondering just how many future leaders of industry you'd be influencing.

Linkie for associate lecturers is here although I get the impression you'd benefit from approaching a real person direct as the tick boxes on a form to apply for a position doesn't really do what you need it to do and so the details for the head honcho are here.