Are You Blobbing Yet?

I'd like to pay tribute to all of my Australian readers and subscribers today!!

Hat's off to all of you Aussies seeking Work and Life Balance. Having vacationed in Australia many years ago, I admit I saw no signs of anyone living in stress and needing balance tips and tools. Perhaps it was because I was in sight-seeing mode, my eyes seeing merely the beauty of the city and countryside... I simply had no inside peek into "real life" Australia.

I can hardly wait to visit Australia again in the future. It is a VAST country with such diverse cultures, landscapes, climates, vegetations and peoples. We, as Canadians were made to feel very welcome throughout our travels. Sydney is an awesome city... Melbourne another beautiful and interesting city... the Gold Coast hot and gorgeously filled with bronze beauties everywhere. Holding a koala bear melted my heart. My photographer self was very busy there, capturing the great sights... here's one of my moment caught on film. (This sunset moment sent me into immediate inner balance!)

Thanks to my Australian friend, Martin for sharing an Aussie expression with me in an email recently. He was telling me about how busy he'd been with a project over the last eight weeks and then said, "I treated myself to two blob days where I recharged my batteries."

When I inquired what a "blob" day is, he emailed me again, saying, "In Australia we say a slow day where you relax and take a load off is a day where you blob! Hence a blob day!"

Thanks so much, Martin... this is worth sharing around!

So, my Work and Life Balance reader friends, I hope you'll catch the Australian spirit and treat yourself to frequent all-important "Blob Days" too! Blobbing is really vital to our entire wellbeing. Smile... if you find that expression as contagious as I do, spread it around!

Blobbing (relaxation) is a really good thing for life balance.

Warmly, Carolyn

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The Roads We Choose To Travel

Welcome and thanks for visiting!

Richard and I have been away on a driving holiday, taking four days "on the road" into the lovely Okanagan area of central British Columbia. What a GREAT time we had, seeing the sights, sharing plenty of happy dialogue along the way and even considering some future goals.

It was also a happy time to visit some of our beloved family, time to catch up on each other's lives and have casual time in their beautiful community of Vernon. Our "family batteries" got recharged and our playful spirits renewed.

Time away from the usual routine of life, I realize again, is vital to wellness and joy!

Taking time to step back from all of the day-to-day work and home pressures, the mundane and the stressful means that our experience gets freshly shaken up, providing an opportunity to be a little different and see things in new ways.

Taking time away allows for our minds to quieten, our worries to diminish and our sights to shift to a broader horizon. Following the long road ahead takes us into new communities, seeing people living differently, seeing new terrain and new possibilities to consider . We found ourselves "thinking outside the usual box" of our established lives and entertained some changes we'd like to make in our future.

Stepping out into new places and situations reminds us that we can live in whatever way we choose, we can become a more expanded person and that our current living condition is of our making. Choices appear when the statis quo is stirred up and, suddenly, life doesn't have to be as small as it was before. Life will be what we make of it!

Driving holidays are like placing wings under our feet... and the road will take us as far as we can dare to dream. I love being free to roam and adventure and discover new places, new people and, especially, ME! Travelling has always provided the best atmosphere for knowing myself anew.

How about you? When was the last time you "hit the road" for a little spontaneity and refreshment of soul?

I highly recommend it! These little jaunts need not cost much, but offer so much in return. I can hardly wait for our next driving holiday... perhaps at Christmas.


Warmly, Carolyn
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