{"id":2106,"date":"2022-04-06T12:02:19","date_gmt":"2022-04-06T02:02:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wellbeing.com.au\/curious\/?p=2106"},"modified":"2022-04-05T12:18:58","modified_gmt":"2022-04-05T02:18:58","slug":"relate-and-meditate-with-daisy-clementine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wellbeing.com.au\/curious\/relate-and-meditate-with-daisy-clementine","title":{"rendered":"Meditation and a side of fries with Daisy Clementine"},"content":{"rendered":"

Home is \u2026<\/strong>
\n\u201cWhere is home?\u201d is a tricky question for me because I grew up in the UK but I was born in Sydney. I guess I\u2019ll always have two homes and a foot in both countries. I currently live in Bondi but to be clear, I don\u2019t wear white linen and I\u2019m still never sure what I\u2019m meant to wear to the beach. My apartment has been coined \u201cThe Penthouse\u201d by friends \u2014 it\u2019s by far the best place I\u2019ve ever lived.<\/p>\n

How I start my day \u2026<\/strong>
\nI don\u2019t have a \u201ctypical\u201d morning. There\u2019s always some music involved, coffee and cuddles with my cat but it changes day to day. I\u2019ve been told so many times about the importance of a morning routine and I\u2019ve really tried to implement one, but nothing has stuck yet. Someone recently suggested making three different routines for low-energy, mid-energy and high-energy mornings so I\u2019m going to try that.<\/p>\n

One of my main goals is to incorporate some kind of meditation practice into my mornings. Meditation is something I\u2019ve always struggled with, which is where the idea for my podcast Relate & Meditate<\/em> came from. I wanted to listen to meditations that almost felt like a pep talk and a mindset reset, versus light beams coming out of my head, so I made them for myself and for friends, and then shared them with the world. We use the word \u201cmeditation\u201d very loosely at R&M<\/em>.<\/p>\n

My work space looks like \u2026<\/strong>
\nI\u2019m so lucky that my home office is a sunroom with a balcony off it so it\u2019s super bright and breezy on sunny days. Basically I like being outside. If I\u2019m not out on photoshoots or event producing, I\u2019m editing my podcast \u2014 if you listen to an episode, you\u2019ll be able to hear all the lorikeets outside my office window.<\/p>\n

On work\/life balance \u2026<\/strong>
\nI don\u2019t really believe in the \u201cwork\/life\u201d balance thing. I tend to have those lines pretty blurred, although admittedly sometimes not in the healthiest of ways. With the way the world is now, and the ways in which social media blends into work, it\u2019s inevitable that there is crossover. It\u2019s just about figuring out where you draw the line.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m really emotionally attached to everything I work on, so the decision to go freelance this year seemed like the best way to manage that balance and make sure I\u2019m only working on projects that feel aligned with my values, don\u2019t zap my energy and, most importantly, feel fun! I\u2019m very happy for work to blend into my personal life when that looks like bouncing ideas with friends, finding gems during my Instagram scrolls and jumping into work \u201cout of hours\u201d because I feel inspired. I try not to check my emails 10,000 times a day like I used to, and have recently learnt that it\u2019s actually not rude to not reply within an hour of receiving a message.<\/p>\n

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