If you could be anywhere, be anywhere, do anything, this very minute . . .
No problems, no repercussions, no harm to anyone or anything,
Where would you be?
Why there? Has the answer changed in the last few years?
–ME “Liz” Strauss
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I’d be someplace on a beach, watching the sunset with a cold drink in my hand. 🙂
I wouldn’t mind being on a boat, smack dab in the middle of that beautiful picture you posted! I’m not liking the Chicago weather this week…
Hi Karen,
I wouldn’t mind a beach, a sunset, and a cold drink, myself. I’m not much for the cold weather either.
A boat on the Nile? We’d be like Cleopatra, not a bad idea. 🙂
I would be sat on a beach with my laptop and video camera, writing blog posts and recording video blogs. Meeting new people. Watching the surfers.
That would be much better than being sat working from home in Not-So-Sunny England all year.
Ya know, when I say it like I just did in the first paragraph, it really doesn’t seem like all that big a challenge to actually do that. A 12 month working holiday visa for Australia is so easy for a 20 year old UK guy to get. Maybe it’s time I just did it! 😀
Hi Jamie!
I like your dream. Even more I like the way that you listen to yourself speaking. Yeah, who says that you can’t do exactly that?!!
Hi Liz
I would be right here, in my little warm showroom watching the rain splash the windows, looking, and a bit wondering, at the result we’ve got this year (yeap, I’m a work junky sometimes – sometimes?) and feeling proud and grateful. Proud of how far we’ve come and grateful for all the friendly, gentle, unconditional guidance and help we received (and accepted).
And boy, did the answer change from the last few years 😉
Karin H. (Keep It Simple Sweetheart, specially in business)
Hi Karen,
That’s lifetime’s worth of an answer. We have to travel so far to like where we are. 🙂
I can only imagine how much your answer has changed. 🙂
Hi Lis
So true, bot also on the other hand it feels like coming back into one’s true self, strangely enough
Karin H.
There are no straight lines in nature, but there sure seem to be lots of circles. 🙂
My answer is, RIGHT WHERE I AM! Sipping tea, going through my newsreader reading fascinating bloggers like you, Liz, looking forward to a busy day of writing and editing projects … Yes, my answer has changed big time from a few years ago.
I think the wife and I would be on a river boat tour, sailing down the Rhine River in Germany, sipping hot tea and watching the scenery come to us. It’s something we’ve talked about for a while, and looks like it might actually get on the agenda for next year!
But that’s for a rest. I’m with Brad and Karin; I like where I’m at right now, workwise (and especially where it looks like I’m about to “go” – more to come on that soon I hope!)
Hi Brad!
I’m smiling at the emphasis that you’ve put on those words. It’s glorious to reach a point where we can enjoy the life we’re living, isn’t it?
Be anywhere, doing anything? Ohh, that’s a tough one.
I think I’d grab my sister (who lives across the country from me) and head out into the wilderness. Maybe somewhere with oceans, for her – maybe somewhere with mountains, for me. Hopefully somewhere a little warmer than our frigid Colorado at the moment (17°F! yikes!). Or, you know, we’ll just find a cliff near the ocean and have both our cakes!
Speaking of cakes, a picnic would be nice, I think. So would a storm. =)
I wish, I really do, that I could say I wouldn’t rather be anywhere but where I am – but I’m staring out at the grit on an icy parking lot through barred windows (I’m in an office, not a jail– honest!– but my office isn’t in a good part of town), and I can’t seem to work up much verve for putting in another 9-5 day.
I’m workin’ on it, though. =) Thanks for the happy imaginings, Liz!
Hi Kusani!
Happy imaginings are a great way to make a day better and to make a future bright. You’ll get where you want to be soon. 🙂
A question like this really mirrors core values doesn’t it (especially yours, Liz!)?
I’d be here, now, present and fully mindful of all that is. Content in every moment. Trusting each right next step. I’d be love and choose love over and over. (Even achieving that 10 percent of the time would be a great achievement.)
And I’d be in Africa working with orphaned elephants. Mountain Gorillas might call me to climb up the mountains in Rwanda too.
So, I guess I’d be in my heart and out of my mind. 🙂
Ah Lisa!
You have a great approach to your life. In your heart and our of your mind — what could be better than that?
Like Brad and Lisa, I’d be right where I am, doing what I’m doing.
It’s a beautiful, rainy morning… I’m putting together a blog post in the living room, while my wife watches one of the Law and Orders in the bedroom. There’s a real sense of peace in my home.
I guess the show is over… it just got quiet in there. She’s probably reading now…
Of course, there are goals and dreams for the future. But I wouldn’t change right now for anything.
My answer would have been very different a few years ago (even a few weeks ago). And it may be different tomorrow.
But right now, I’m loving where I am.
what an awesome question —- it has definitely changed — and or is currently shifting and COULD be what I decide to do next
I have blessings in my every day that remind me – hey this isn’t so bad
yet
the infamous author pat martin of http://www.therengen.com recently said to me – “yeah i’d rent a cottage in michigan and just write —I’d really love that”
Ever since she said that I can’t stop wondering —really, really wondering what it would be like to as she said –JUST write, get paid for it of course, with nothing interfering -current burdens poof – gone.
Certainly one could BE just about anywhere but the images of a wooded michigan cottage or a villa in tuscany sounds rather dreamy.
Mother Earth aka Karen Hanrahan
http://www.bestwellnessconsultant.com
Hi Mother Earth!
Well, every day that “ain’t so bad,” is a good one. A villa in Tuscany would be a nice place for a rest. 🙂
Yeah. Pretty much right where I am. I’d be with my kids. And I’d be with my wife.
I’d be content no matter what the circumstances (which is something that I should be, but too often am not).
I’d be right where I am doing exactly what I’m doing. I’m so fortunate to have figured this out. 😉
And it sure doesn’t hurt to be in Sedona, even though it’s raining.
While there are many places I’d love to go and so much out there to see, “there’s no place like home”.
Hi Mark!
With your family . . . that’s something special, yeah. It’s nice when we can move our support and love with wherever we go.
Lucky man. Blessed.:)
Hi Sunny!
“Fortunate to have figured it out.”
Well said, Sunny, well said. Though fortune wasn’t the only contributor. 🙂
Hi Lyman!
“There’s a real sense of peace in my home.”
Peace, contentment. No wonder you’re enjoying the “now.” I felt peaceful just reading about it. 🙂
Nice question. I’m actually not sure where I’d be. I think I’m still waiting to discover that place. I’m glad to be where I am. Of course for a short period of time a break from the kids and with good friends would be nice, but then I’d miss the kids after awhile. 🙂
The beach idea crossed my mind the last time i went. The best part of this beach is that no one cares about how you look, it’s all about you being you, worry free!
The white noise, the gorgeous surfers and the opportunity to drop whatever you are doing just to get some fun in the sun is really tempting…
Hi Whoa!
I like the way you think about the beach. Reading what you wrote takes me there. 🙂