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Re: When are you your best self?

Romana Mirza — Tue, 27 May 2008 10:35:43 -0000

I am my best self when I am rested, inspired and in the company of someone with a dream. Dreams and a strong vision for the future inspire great creativity within in me. When that happens I am my best self.

Re: What is the wish behind your biggest complaint?

Romana Mirza — Wed, 28 May 2008 08:27:36 -0000

Inaccuracy. I recently when to a postal outlet inside a drug store. Even though the card indicated the outlet would be open from 9-5, it neglected to mention that the outlet is closed from 1 to 2 for lunch. Guess what time I arrived. It's so simple to communicate, it's just an extra few characters to print a lunch hour on a card, it's just a phone call or an email to communicate a more accurate description of something. My deep desire is that we all take a moment to understand how we will be understood by our audience so that we all strive to be better communicators. It's the golden rule, right?

Re: What’s your favourite form of exercise?

Romana Mirza — Thu, 29 May 2008 11:29:11 -0000

Weight Training I love the process and structure of it all, it represents my constructive side. My style statement (constructive graceful) sent me on a journey to discover my graceful side. That's when I found Nia (www.nianow.com). Now I have two favourite forms of exercise.

Re: What’s the best money advice you’ve received?

Romana Mirza — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 09:44:26 -0000

That's easy! Jonathan and David Murray wrote a book called "Two for the Money" they have a fantastic formula in there for paying down your debt - it was the best advice I've ever received and it worked! What's the best money advice I've learned? Don't do it for the money.

Re: What do you cherish about your home?

Romana Mirza — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 21:20:11 -0000

my stereo system - nothing else. Everything else is stuff, my stereo is my connection with music, my favourite art form.

Re: How do you define waste?

Romana Mirza — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 08:31:29 -0000

Procrastinating. Asking endless "what if" questions rather than just getting started and discovering on the way.

Re: What has been your most significant beginning?

Romana Mirza — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 09:39:34 -0000

Here's a doozy for you...the day I started a new job with an amazing high end furniture company - I was so excited, I had never worked in the industry before, it was a shock to me they hired me! I had a great time in that job. Well, that first day I started that amazing job, I came home to find out my husband (of only 11 months) had left me, ouch! That was 8 years ago, it was the beginning of this most beautiful journey that I have been on. I've learned what a deep sense of compassion is from this beginning and this beginning lead to a passion and connection with design that I could now not live without. Lovely.

Re: What’s not working in your wardrobe?

Romana Mirza — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 00:22:45 -0000

The volume of stuff! Too many categories: Western and Eastern. Summer and Winter. Work out and Casual. Business Casual and Business. Semi Formal and Formal. Aggggh! If I lived in San Francisco I would have warm to cool clothes in eastern or western fashion that I can wear any time of the year, wouldn't that be nice! But alas, I'm in Toronto. Three seasons: really hot, just right, really cold and just right again. And two looks: My North American business entrepreneur identity and my Indo-Pakistani identity - isn't it wonderful to be Canadian?

Re: What’s the lesson that keeps repeating in your life?

Romana Mirza — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 11:01:44 -0000

Listen then respond. But, you know what, I think, I hope it will not repeat itself any more. I went to a beautiful spiritual pilgrimage in December and my interface with the world seems to have changed. I like the new 'listen and respond' me, it's a much better reflection of Graceful in my SS: Constructive Graceful.

Re: What’s the lesson that keeps repeating in your life?

Romana Mirza — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 11:12:39 -0000

Beth, this is a perfect comment to accompany my blog posting on Entrepreneurship at http://tinyurl.com/3fjwtz Thank you for sharing it with us.

Re: In terms of Creativity, what are you attracted to?

Romana Mirza — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 07:52:58 -0000

change. Changing it up, going outside of your world into another. It inspires wonderful creativity!

Re: What culture do you want to learn about?

Romana Mirza — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 06:58:54 -0000

Spain. Parts of their culture has deep roots in an Islamic History I want to explore and inhale that.

Re: Toronto Networking Event: July 16

Romana Mirza — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 01:30:04 -0000

Thank you Danielle for the post and your endorsement! There is a lot of excitement building around this evening. When I realized that I had all these amazing women in my Rolodex I had to do something to bring them all together. I hope the evening will be a time for connections and inspiration. To become a Pinpoint Ambassador and invite your own group of great women you know email me at romana@studiopinoint.com.

Re: Special Friday Edition: What’s the desire beneath your envy?

Romana Mirza — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 09:02:39 -0000

the desire behind the envy was to be accepted and not judged. I've left that world, I don't live there anymore and yet I haven't physically moved. I am in a new world, envy doesn't live in this world. What lives in this world is deep gratitude. I strive to redirect the energy that envy consumed into deep compassion.

Re: What’s your cheap beauty solution?

Romana Mirza — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 23:00:01 -0000

I'm going to try Maybelline Full n Soft for sure! I think Lancome Definicils is the best and I haven't found anything that works better but it is expensive! As for eye make up remover. PURITY facial cleanser by Philosophy is the BEST EVER, very gentle and removes all your make up all at once, you don't have to 'pre treat' the eyes.

Re: What does it mean to be civilized?

Romana Mirza — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 07:56:30 -0000

R-E-S-P-E-C-T I'm with the others. Actually for me respect is the over-riding behaviour. Out of it comes courtesy and love and compassion and great listening skills - it all falls out of respect.

Re: To whom will you show your appreciation today?

Romana Mirza — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 16:34:47 -0000

God. For all the blessings, all the relationships, all the support that I receive from family, friends, colleagues near and far.

Re: What’s the best business book you’ve read?

Romana Mirza — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 03:14:30 -0000

Creative Habit is on my reading list and I loved Good to Great but the book that really helped me focus my vision so that I could see a clear bright future for my company was the E-myth Revisited by Michael E. Gerber. Brilliant. Now I'm almost ready to tackle my hedgehog concept!

Re: No Sugar Tonight! Or wine, or white bread, or …

Romana Mirza — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 01:52:22 -0000

You are an inspiration Karryn...I've given up so much, coffee no problem, soda no problem, red meat no problem, alcohol, well I don't drink anyway, no problem. But sugar aaaaaahhhhrrhrhhgghghh - impossible! Then a homeopathic doctor told me: "well that's understandable, you have a chemical craving for sugar" - oh, is it that simple? Well, no not really. It does help when I eat lots of plain yogurt (no sugar added) and have my physillium husk and keep up with the Chromium pills - the sugar cravings do go away, but keeping up with all that, not easy! So, I take much inspiration from you - can I do it? Well, I don't think I'm ready to answer that yet! You've really given me something to live with an idea, a possibility that it can be done. Thank you.

Re: When you were a child, what did you want to be when you grew up?

Romana Mirza — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 08:14:58 -0000

When I was a wee child my dream was to have a job in an ice cream store scooping ice cream happily for all the waiting customers. To be surrounded by all those colours and all that joy, wow! Later as a teen I wanted to become an occupational therapist. Science and math got the better of me, now I'm an entrepreneur, go figure!

Re: In terms of celebrities, whose fashion sense do you admire?

Romana Mirza — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 07:59:45 -0000

I'm with you Elizabeth. Katherine Hepburn, hands down.

Re: What’s the best workshop or course you ever took?

Romana Mirza — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 08:34:06 -0000

Nia White Belt Intensive training with Roberta Mohler - the best reconnection to my body ever, who knew so much was possible? www.nianow.com

Re: How do you fall in love with the world?

Romana Mirza — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 23:26:24 -0000

by connecting, I've recently learned of the beauty of connecting - with family, friends, with my body, with my emotions, with my muscles, my joints. I was always afraid of connecting and then one day I came to realize that I was leaving anxiety and fear behind and moving through the world. It wasn't until I put them in a little red wagon and started dragging them around with me everywhere I go that I truly started connecting. That to me is falling in love.

Re: What’s your favourite inspirational quote?

Romana Mirza — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 01:12:40 -0000

"You don't have to be something you're not to be better than you were" -- Sydney Poitier

Re: What’s your favourite inspirational quote?

Romana Mirza — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 01:15:32 -0000

"We have created you male and female, and have made you into nations and tribes, in order that you might come to know one another. In the sight of God the noblest among you is the one who is most deeply conscious of God." Qur’an 49.13

Re: What are your favourite natural remedies?

Romana Mirza — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 09:25:19 -0000

Plain Yogurt, no sugar, for breakfast to soothe allergy symptoms (runny, itchy nose, et al) - out of balance bacteria in the gut causes most allergic reactions!

Physillium husk to balance the digestive system. Now that's fibre!

Re: What do you regret?

Romana Mirza — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 09:47:39 -0000

I think "I should have stayed in LA to pursue that career - rather than coming back to Toronto to marry that guy who walked out on me only 11 months after our wedding!" Then I think, no that was meant to happen. I have learned deep compassion from that experience and I'm blessed to have learned the lesson. So, I still do regret not staying in LA to make a go of it, but I don't regret it more.

Re: What is your biggest indulgence?

Romana Mirza — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 08:16:46 -0000

Definitely shopping! My biggest indulgence was when I was in university - not a lot of income, well, living the typical student's life, kraft dinner and the whole bit. I was in Montreal one weekend and fell in love with a leather coat that I could not live without. It was VERY expensive - but I wore it for 15 years!

Re: What is your big, audacious dream for yourself?

Romana Mirza — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 20:37:47 -0000

To change the way business is done - it doesn't have to be this way! It can be real, authentic, people are doing it, I want to be part of that revolution, a leader - a guide.

Re: How do you want to feel today?

Romana Mirza — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 19:10:10 -0000

better, summer head colds are never fun!

Re: What are the best Inspirational or “Personal Growth” books you’ve read?

Romana Mirza — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 06:05:28 -0000

I'm Ok You're Ok by Wayne Dyer. I read it early in life, the book taught me about the beauty of living in the moment and more importantly that I could control my feelings - now that was an aha moment!

Re: What is your favorite fiction book?

Romana Mirza — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 05:42:17 -0000

A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry

Re: What do you find beautiful about your body?

Romana Mirza — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 10:43:21 -0000

how it dances, it dances so beautifully I love that about my body