<p class="p3">We live in such a fast paced world that is literally full of distractions.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>
<p class="p3">We view, or hear, thousands of attention grabbing text, images, videos &amp; ditties on a wide variety of screens, platforms, mediums &amp; buildings.</p>
<p class="p3">We wish we had more time<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>
<p class="p3">We wish for something different<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>
<p class="p3">It’s in our nature to constantly strive for a different life, a better life, a perfect day....maybe every day?</p>
<p class="p3">We can very often feel like we are never going to get to that perfect vision we have of living our life the way we want to.</p>
We think everyone else is richer, happier &amp; more successful....

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<h2 class="p4"><b>But is this actually true?<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b></h2>
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<p class="p3">A mentor once said to me ‘<em>challenge everything</em>’ &amp; this post is to suggest that we might want to consider trying the same thing in all aspects of our lives</p>
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<h3 class="p3"><em><b>"Losing everything</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> was the best thing that ever happened to me"</span></em></h3>
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<p class="p3">In 2013 I lost almost everything I had ever earned &amp; worked for. My life savings, my career &amp; almost my house.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>
Living on 'no frills' tinned food, cancelling all the direct debits that I could, getting rid of all my debt using all of my savings &amp; not going out or eating out felt devastating.

But having no job I had lots of TIME.

So I started being more creative, making gifts for birthdays instead of buying them, creative cooking was essential due to the lack of income. I started walking to visit family &amp; friends locally to save fuel &amp; actually having all this time meant I was actually able to think, slow down &amp; consider 'stuff'.

I was asking myself those big questions:
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 	<li>What was my purpose?</li>
 	<li>What made me happy?</li>
 	<li>What did I enjoy doing?</li>
 	<li>What would a perfect day look like...to me?</li>
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<h2>What is your purpose?</h2>
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Having so much time &amp; freedom with no job started to feel more liberating than stifling as I realised my quality of life was unchanged, in fact many things has improved! Then once I knew what I wanted to do I began to work on my new business, from scratch, no investment, no overdrafts, no loans!

It felt great!

Being in a position to get out of bed when I wanted in the mornings did not result in me lying in bed, I would jump out of bed with hundreds of ideas for my plan.

I stopped thinking about what I did not have because I was driven by passion &amp; purpose.

My schedule was simple because it was up to me what I did, which also meant I could spend time listening or talking to people, friends, family &amp; even customers &amp; I really really enjoyed those conversations.

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<h2>Worst or best experience?</h2>
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This resulted in the realisation that losing everything was the best thing to happen to me because it allowed me to compare the experiences of living with a really good income to literally no income.

Going from spending money easily, having lots of <em>things</em> 'on credit' because I wanted stuff now &amp; paying interest wasn't a concern, being expected to be places at certain times, worrying about being judged on the gifts I gave based on what I was earning, stressed about the amount of outgoings I had on credit cards etc, being constantly busy, non stop, exhausted doing lots of things everyday ALL THE TIME, unable to think!

...to the experience of having no job, no income, no debt, no stress, no restrictions &amp; the freedom to think &amp; realise what it really was that made me happy.

Having lots of money was proven to be more stressful or at least at that point in my life it did anyway. Having a good job, a lot going on, a busy lifestyle left me feeling like I was always trying to be somewhere else, doing something else, with someone else, never quite succeeding....I didn't know what at, earning even more money I guess!?!?

Having nothing changed some things but the important stuff was still there, my quality of life &amp; self respect actually began to improve.

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<h2>The Perfect Day</h2>
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As I set up my new company I had written a lot of my thoughts down &amp; one thing I did was to write down what a perfect day would look like to me.

Guess which period of my life was most fulfilling...before or after losing everything?

Guess which period gave me more days that felt like perfect days?

Yes, losing everything gave me a gift. The gift of realisation that I was indeed living far more perfect days now than I was before I had lost everything. My days were now more fulfilling, fun, challenging, interesting, exciting, calm &amp; yet full.

Now I am not suggesting for a moment that you need to lose everything to have the experience I did. in fact this is the reason I wanted to share such a personal story with you, in the hope that it avoids something like that if you are in a fast paced lifestyle that feels like you're never gonna get <em>there</em>....wherever <em>there</em> is!

However what I am suggesting is that you may not actually be that far away from the dream right now. If we don't take stock, reflect &amp; consider what we have rather than what we do not then we may miss this very important lesson.

Its good to dream, plan, have a vision &amp; purpose but we should try not to let the speed of life stop us from the experience of living perfect days every day.

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<h2 class="p3">P.s. Let me share a old story that my buddy Mark tweaked for us &amp; he made super relevant to sum up this Juicemail enjoy!<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></h2>
<h1 class="p1" style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/tfimblog/photos/a.1196648380432297/1197630237000778/?type=3" target="_blank" rel="noopener">READ MARK'S VERSION HERE then come back....</a></h1>
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<h2>Grab a pen &amp; paper....!</h2>
<p class="p3">Enjoy the moment you’re in<span class="Apple-converted-space"> right now &amp; s</span>tart writing…..the Perfect Day in YOUR mind right now</p>

<ul>
 	<li>Where would you be?</li>
 	<li>Who would you be with?</li>
 	<li>What time would you wake?</li>
 	<li>What would you wear?</li>
 	<li>What would you eat?</li>
 	<li>What would you do?</li>
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Keep writing, keep going.....see what that Perfect Day looks like genuinely, realistically &amp; notice how far, or near, you are to it....then maybe share it on social media with a tag to us!

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<h1><b class="ac-designer-copy"><span class="ac-designer-copy"><span class="ac-designer-marked-selection ac-designer-copy">Why not share your Perfect Days on instagram...use #myperfectday @biomechanics_education</span></span></b></h1>
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