Here’s an interesting exercise for the self. Uncover the inner you and you might find hidden inspiration! My answers are here to get you started, copy the document and write your own!

Write two 5 minute essays. Free flowing – no stopping and thinking – on:-

* What would I be like if I had no limits put on me?

Flowingly creative … I’d write, draw, paint and think creative thoughts all day. I’d be attuned enough with myself to meditate in the flow with effortless ease, attuned and aware to each dimension I touch. I would fill my house with love, warmth and giving and be enriched by the friends around me. I would see the good in everyone and everything. To be a wise and gracious old lady with long grey hair in a bun on top, like a Katherine Hepburn … well not quite yet.

* What is my favourite way to dress?

Loose, flowing, multi-layered chic … interesting, eclectic and slightly eccentric.

Make the following Lists:-

* Name 10 people in history you’d like to meet and why

1. Kahlil Gibran – because he loved a woman he wrote to for 40 years without ever meeting.

2. Sylvia Plath – if I’d been her friend she might not have put her head in the oven.

3. Virginia Wolfe – for the same sort of reason, she needed someone there to help her over that urge to put stones in her pockets and drown herself.

4. Peter Singer – he’s not in history but he’s writing it.

5. LM Montgomery

6. Madame Blavatsky

* Name 10 things you enjoyed doing as a child – why did you stop

1. Ballet – my mother died, it was too expensive .. and I realised I’d never be the prima ballerina.

2. Drawing – somehow I never felt confident to continue.

3. Writing letters to my future self – when I was 12 I’d write letters to me to be opened on various birthdays, 17, 21 and so on. But I couldn’t trust myself – I opened them before I was 13.

4. Playing Ladies – until I grew up and realised what stilted lives “ladies” led.

5. I was a social activist – it got me into trouble.

* Name 10 things you’d do if money weren’t an issue

1. Live in a warehouse with my sweet man, decorated exactly as we want it with lush roof garden.

2. Have no walls, huge windows looking out to sea – designer furniture, latest technology.

3. Give my children financial security so they’ll never worry about being poor.

4. Buy a saxophone.

5. Open a wonderful Rescue Farm for animals and employ street kids.

6. Back a good political party who truly represented the people, not lied to them.

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* Name 5 jobs you would have if you could have more than one at a time.

1. Run a concept and design company

2. Open a unique restaurant on the banks of a river in a run down shack with ultra modern interior, called Mike’s Mud Cafe, serving genuine New Orleans food and famous for its coffee.

* Name 10 crazy things you would do if you were brave enough

1. Play the saxophone – little old lady plays the blues

2. Tango in the street with my true love, wearing my red dress and stillettoes.

3. Have plasic surgery to tighten my neck and slightly fuller lips.

* Name 20 things you like to eat

1. Saos and peanut butter

2. Red jam and mascarpone on warm croissants

3. Oysters natural with a squeeze of lemon

4. Enchiladas

5. Anything at a french restaurant – specially creme brulee

6. Matjes Herrings

7. Prawn omelettes – not too often

8. Strawberries

9. Chocolate – dark with soft centres preferably

10. Gado Gado

11. Greek salad

12. Pancakes with maple syrup and bacon

* Name 20 things that you eat that you really don’t like that much

1. At my age you don’t have to eat anything you don’t like and certainly nothing just to be polite – sorry

Complete this statement 5 times:-

If I had unlimited time to do anything I wanted to, I’d:

….. finish a linguistics course at uni …… complete a scuplture course …. take tango lessons that last for years …. learn all the blues I ever heard on saxophone ….