New Doors to Open This Year
I wish I could share with you that I was in Provence this past month, celebrating the holidays and making a great start to 2022. Although my thoughts and visualizations were there, I was gladly home at Domaine de Manion enjoying quiet and relaxing holidays. Now I am planning my 2022. It appears already for me, this is a year of upgrades and improving on many fronts.
Having said that, if you haven’t been to my website recently, www.bonniejomanion.com please visit. This fall I worked on refreshing and updating it. One of the new changes is offering my photography online, Purchase My Photography on my home page. My photos are my inspiration, and the source for my ideas and content to share with you.
I have selected a few photos to begin with, like the French Blue Door photo above, where you can see them all at once, or click on individual categories like Provence, Burgundy, Domaine de Manion. I will be adding more photos from time to time. If you have a favorite photo from my blog, Instagram, or website, please feel free to contact me at bonnie@vintagegardengal.com and I will add it to this category. Some of these photos currently grace my home, and I enjoy them everyday. Perhaps some of these photos will resonate with you too!
I am sure all of you have thought through your 2022 with hope, goals, resolutions, and intentions by now. To make this year a spectacular year for you all, I wanted to share with you a very special list. This list came from a Mira Costa College Business Class taught by Tom Severance, I took years ago. Going through some of my old files, I recently found it again. Many of these points I imagine you already know and do now, but it never hurts to revisit the list to keep them fresh in your daily living, and kick start your year. Wishing you your best year yet!
It is a list to unlock the best kept secret in the world—YOU!
1) Live your ideal life …now.
2) Do things that are extraordinary and nearly impossible.
3) Believe that: If it’s to be, it’s up to me.
4) Think BIG. Dream lofty dreams. Plan. Act immediately.
5) Keep in contact with the best, meet people engaged in the best, experience the best.
6) Be your own boss. Do what you love and get paid for it.
7) Duplicate your efforts and receive a percentage on other’s productivity.
8) Increase your income daily…whether you work, play, or sleep.
9) Do what you do so well that people enthusiastically refer others to you.
10) Inspire others by your example.
11) Build your reputation for honesty, integrity, quality, and superb service.
12) Aim for excellence in your field.
13) Support others in achieving their goals.
14) Develop influential friendships worldwide.
15) Take total responsibility for your past, present, and future experiences.
16) Strive to accomplish more with less time, money, and energy.
17) Do and say things that benefit all concerned.
18) Be open to new ideas, relationships, and experiences.
19) Realize that all events happen for the best.
20) Take calculated risks to get ahead.
21) Read books by and about exciting people you admire.
22) Simplify your life, have more fun per hour.
23) Know that you are equal to everyone and everyone is equal to you.
24) Accept people the way they are and the way they are not.
25) Forgive and love everyone.
26) Do what you feel is best, no matter what people think of you.
27) Save 10% of your income.
28) Give something away daily…a postcard, letter, gift, smile, hug, compliment.
29) Collect pictures of what you want to be, do, and have in your life.
30) Do not criticize, condem, or complain.
31) Act as if it were impossible to fail.
32) Live in an elegant dwelling.
33) Dine at the finest restaurants.
34) Stay at the best hotels in the world.
35) Dress to look and feel great! Mostly solid-colored clothing.
36) Collect quotes that motivate you.
37) Speak and write only positive words.
38) Carry a crisp $100.00 bill with you at all times.
39) Learn something new every day.
40) Exercise at least 20 minutes daily to achieve and maintain your ideal body.
41) Eat mostly fresh fruits, vegetables, nuts, and grains.
42) Minimize alcohol, tobacco, sugar, salt, white flour, coffee, pork, beef,and unnatural foods.
43) Avoid saying: can’t, hard, difficult. Instead say: I can, it’s easy, it’s simple.
44) Keep your home, desk, closets, car…clean, neat, and organized.
45) Use a simple time management system.
46) Listen to music which motivates you.
47) Maintain a good-looking tan. Spend more time with nature.
48) Act as if all your goals and intentions are already accomplished.
49) Constantly escalate your goals.
50) GO FOR IT! JUST DO IT!