You often ask me what my days are like and I tell you that they are never like the previous ones. I am even very happy today not to have a diary anymore (which before I never left, I wrote everything down in it). I wanted so much, not so long ago, to get rid of my calculations and schedule to find myself like this, to get up in the morning and leave room for surprises... while I have never been so busy having become the helm of a great company.
It's a luxury not to have a calendar anymore. My appointments are scattered here and there, I prioritize them over texts; I also wanted to get back to human interaction.
What might a day look like? These days, Marco and I are thinking about what our next collections will be. We're also taking photos with Yann. And last Friday, I suddenly wanted green: I was impatiently waiting for Friday, the sisters from Grenier d'Ernest were coming to arrange walls and green areas around the shop and house. I'm quietly getting ready to film a show! I'm also organizing and decluttering the inside of my wardrobes when I have time while also going to antique fairs to find items to use for the photos of the next two books I'm writing. Johanne is here, by the way; we just met (I had put out a call for help by my side so I could write with my baby who has fun and can come to me, on me if necessary; I had written Respirer le Bonheur when Charles was a baby and the company hadn't even been born).
On Monday, I met a great partner (both for us to cast and for the TV show, what a nice surprise), and our day was dedicated to it. Obviously, I always go with my baby.
On Tuesday, I wrote my latest edition of the web magazine, have you read it? Are you a subscriber? I write everything, as you know. I love writing. It's only been ten days since I decided to start two new books, and my boyfriend was smiling to see me "booking" the press and distribution. I was talking with chef Mève yesterday, what a joy to see her again, she'll be making the recipes with me, yay! I was thinking yesterday, as all this goes, that the entire work brings together all the actors of the new trends, we all find ourselves with enchantment and driven by this passion to share everything.
When I write an edition, I feel so satisfied afterward. Fulfilled, fulfilled, and I normally treat myself to a day off. But not Tuesday because I had a lot to announce on this page between a load of laundry and a cookie mix. I also stop by our "head office," just across the store, to chat with our wonderful team that I see as my family. I have my family, then the team that has grown up, me who is not yet used to having a team, then you, who have been there from the beginning. You are my family. I also wanted to meet our distributors, just like that, to chat among friends, listen to them, talk to them about our values and mission, get back to basics. That was yesterday. In fact, given the storm the day before, we had canceled, but several still decided to show up!
I start my day at school in Charles's class like every Wednesday morning, with the baby who will later play with Dad while I chat with our vending machines on the shop side. I reassure them about our approach and how important it is to know how to guide well and above all, not to count, to go with the heart, the values. Yes, we grow but in beauty, with our foundations so solid.
Not having been accustomed to such success for all these years before, the head remains firmly anchored in the essential and understanding.
I ask for a short rest so that the baby can calm down in my arms, and the meeting will continue over lunch. Then I review the points raised with the team. Realizing how important it is to talk. I want to meet everyone to comfort and listen. (Serge calls me from our new Maison Jacynthe location for the layout of our workshops.) When everyone leaves, I have this disorienting feeling of having given birth, of having rocked and then left the house with the baby, and suddenly finding myself at the head of a company. I share with my lover, who congratulates me on my human manner.
So here's a little bit of my life these days! I'm having my smoothie to test our new cabin treatment with Amélie. Vanessa is joining me for the Ayurvedic side of our next center, then Yann and Marco will arrive to chat about photos. Tomorrow, writing! I can't wait.
So I have only one wish for you: follow your path. It doesn't lie!
And damn, I forgot the cookies in the oven!!! :)
I see a pleasure and I can't let it pass me by...
I don't think, I don't know where I'm going...
I rather follow my instinct and the flow...
This is my way. So, another week begins. I'm saving my mornings to write our next books (very exciting, I love it, I love it, I love it!) and communicate with you.
Then in appointment: the printing house to choose the presentation, the distribution since we are now also a publishing house; with David our director/cameraman/editor we were just now looking at the series of TV shows that we will offer you from April, its skeleton, the why and the how (very exciting, I love, I love, I love) and this evening, I am receiving Doctor Brouillard to discuss the center that we want to see to receive you.
Between all that, reading the texts of the next bookzine & photos for the latter (that was Monday), surprise visits from Caro (who made me taste her beetroot soup, her crackers and veggie pâté. We'll share the recipes with you later because when I love, I want to share it with you, I always think of you, you are the driving force behind all this) and my friend Marie-Claude.
And all this in this way of not having a pre-defined path but following my and your hearts. Isn't that wonderful? Are you tempted?
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