Busy Making Other Plans

Describe your most ideal day from beginning to end.

The ideal day consists of many things for different people. I like keeping busy, doing the work that I want to do, and by this I mean what I’d love to get paid to do but currently need to support myself and family doing something else (the life that happens, when you are busy making other plans, to paraphrase the great man John Lennon).

Get up nice and early, do some exercise (again, not anything I don’t enjoy doing, something fun). Follow that with a nice cooked breakfast (stir fry veggies and eggs these days, see my other posts).

Then read a bit, play some music, write a bit.

Lunch is the same as breakfast, but maybe something fresher like a nice roll with meat and salad. Watch some cooking shows or part of a movie (I rarely sit from start to end unless in the cinema).

My ideal afternoon? Spending time in the studio writing and recording music would be number one. Again, you can’t beat doing what you love and believe yourself to be put on the earth to do. Maybe some more writing and absorbing any kind of art (film, books, music, video games being top of my list).

Add the family to all this, spending a nice late arvo/evening with them would be perfect. Playing with the kids, maybe the beach, or doing something fun to feed their little minds.

Dinner would be something more exciting, an interesting dish, maybe a dessert as well, all made from scratch of course. Eat with the family, either at the table or in front of a movie depending on the mood and food.

Finish up with putting the kids to bed and spending time with the wife; watch a movie or something else. If there is still time I’d do more in the studio, write or develop video games; they are the things I latch onto when in the mood to be creative.

I’m at my most satisfied when there are not enough hours in the day to get everything done.