Doing What You Love

As you may know I am signed up to do the Do What You Love retreat in May.  I am utterly looking forward to it and given as I leapt and trusted that the Universe would indeed provide me with the means to earn lots of money before then, I am really pleased to say that Magic really does happen when you follow your dreams.  I haven't really stopped working since!!!

Beth, who is running the retreat mentioned somewhere (tweeted?) that she has been invited to the Decor8 book launch at Libertys in London.  And I have to admit I felt a massive pang of jealousy when she did, especially the bit about getting her sparkly shoes out for it.  Or sparkles and shoes. ......  anyway..... I felt somewhat in a funk about it for quite a while today.  "I want my life to be MORE GLAMOUROUS" was essentially the whinge.  Well I do!  I do want that!!  And then all I could think of was how decidedly UN glamourous my life is right now.... poo. (literally, at the moment with this nannying mallarky)

But also.  ALSO.  It made me think about how, actually, I am doing an awful lot of the things I LOVE in my life.  And while some of the things I love might be to get dressed up and be invited to a cool book launch and go to Libertys (I LOVE Libertys, and if I were (when I am?) RICH I would definately shop there a lot!.... But I was thinking about things I love and how, I love quite a lot of things that are not glamourous.  I was mainly thinking this as I snuggled in next to my Bub as he fell asleep, and he muttered, "cuddle me" and I did, and, well, that is pretty cool.  I am cuddling my son who wants to be cuddled by me, and I LOVE that.  I love him of course, but that moment there, of us snuggling together and how wonderful it is and how much I love to be with him.

And then, I branched out.  And I realised that 'Doing What You Love' isn't just about living the big fancy dream.  I love doing some really quite banal types of things.  And I had a realisation.  You know I LOVE doing my playgroup! I do! I love it!  I am essentially a very sociable person, and as a youngster I worked in cafes, I did barwork, I ran clubs, I hosted A LOT of parties, and dinner parties.  I love to be sociable! And doing the playgroup with my friend who does the reading stories part and the singing bit.  I basically run the cafe bit.  Making tea and chatting to everyone.  Where I live there are some fab people who come to my group and I love talking to them all.  I really do love it. 

And creative thinking.  I LOVE having ideas.  I could fall over myself for ideas! (putting them into practice and finishing things, that is something I need to work at) But I do it and I get paid to do it!  The Supergroups I do, are basically about getting together with a bunch of other ideas people and brainstorming and having ideas.  Its GREAT!  I LOVE IT! I am DOING WHAT I LOVE  -  AGAIN!

And I WORK IN A GALLERY!!.  I get to sell art to happy people and read books or surf the internet (I love surfing the internet too!)  AGAIN.  Here I am, doing what I love. 

So I have, basically cheered myself up a lot.  I still want to do a bit more of some other stuff.  And here's a list.  I am putting it out there to the Universe so that I can be a good example!

Fancy Dress parties (love em)
Singing Along (oh - and I forgot, I am going to see Bjorn Again with my Uni pal, L, and we are going to dress up!!  cool.)
Glamour  - being invited to cool book launches at Liberty for example.  Or maybe going out to visit A in Ibiza again for a weekend.  More going to Paris for Valentines.  More travel and more eating in fabulous restaurants. More being able to wear my posh shoes. More work that takes me to Chicago or Paris.  That sort of thing.
Being creative in terms of making ART (roll on the retreat!)
More parties and DANCING
Eating fabulous food in great company
Hanging out with my very good, old friends
Making new great friends
TRIBE
earning LOTS of money doing things I like doing
Camping
Sun Sea & Sand
making people happy
Making my house look beautiful
having a cleaner
pedicures
massages
Hub getting on with my parents
discovering and listening to great music
styling!  I LOVE styling. 
Feeling inspired! Going to art exhibitions, the theatre!