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Your Ideal Day, Pt. 2
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Your Ideal Day, Pt. 2

What if your ideal day were more ideal?

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Eric Beaty
May 14, 2025
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On the heels of my previous entry, here’s the twist to what my ideal day would look like.

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Excerpted from my Raymond Waites Morning Pages journal on March 21, 2016

My Ideal Ideal Day

Plan a perfect day in your life as you wish it were constituted. There are no restrictions. Allow yourself to have your wildest dreams.

Well, for one thing, I wouldn’t have to worry about coming up with lesson plans because I wouldn’t have any private students. I would be making enough from my various guitar courses to fund our lifestyle and my writing, so I wouldn’t have to deal with late fees, canceled lessons, or rescheduling.1

(Aside: Right here, I ran out of ink, which made the second pen I’d used on my MPs Journal at this point.)

I would choose many of the same aspects of my ideal ideal day as I did my actual ideal day (previous post, seen below); things like enjoying a mocha from my favorite coffee shop…or maybe a new coffee shop each day, reading for pleasure, and writing fiction. Ideally (no pun intended), I could just write and not have to worry about editing, though. It’s a major buzzkill and slows things way down.



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