Food for Thought

In order to turn the ordinary into the extraordinary, simply allow yourself to fall in love with the world. Live in the moment, laugh as much as you breathe and love as long as you live to result motivation to be great. I am going to personally share with you my perspective on how I view the world in the midst of branding Danielle.

I am a person who delights in life’s simple pleasures and recognizing them comes from being spontaneous especially on Saturday afternoons. To give you a dose of Danielle, over the past month Saturday’s have consisted of waking up to 10 inches of snow on the ground after a blizzard from the night before. Then going out to take pictures while playing in fresh powder like it was for the first time. One Saturday, my housemates and I went to see Valentine’s Day at Princess and for dinner dipped crab legs into warm butter, scrapped the flesh from mussels and the tender bits from artichoke leaves with a side of authentic Parmesan risotto. I visited home in Toledo for my 21^st birthday celebration with the family, that morning I woke up to the smell of my dad’s notorious banana pancakes and freshly brewed Starbucks coffee. I took a long walk in the park with my parents and sister then came home to baked brie melting in brown sugar topped with toasted almond slices. Warming up by the fire with a gla

ss of red wine, we enjoyed a dramatic ‘blue ray’ movie. Now those are what you call simple pleasures.

Simple pleasures allow you to fall in love with the world, to notice details and to appreciate the people around you. Turn the ordinary into extraordinary. Try looking at life in a different angle. Have precision in your goals and what you want to get out of your day. Living in the Miami bubble is what you make of it. Think of capturing the moment in a photograph. Focus in with the camera lens; compose the image in your mind’s eye, focus and set the shot clearly, then snap the shutter. With precision, you get the results you want by accomplishing fewer things at a higher level. You won’t accomplish your goal maybe the first time around or the second; it does not take one shot, but multiple, countless tries until you find the right one. So the question is, which angle of life are you willing to take? Is your angle the ordinary shot picture from afar or are you going to break up the pattern to capture the extraordinary?