to "Stop and smell the Roses" sounds like a title of a poem, doesn't it? I suggest writing some poetry about this flower or about taking some time to just "be"...
Step2
Do a Painting...Pick up a small tablet of Simulated canvas, some Oil paint and a small brush paintbrush... Now I am going to teach you what I learned as a painter starting out, my first painting was of roses... Try to paint simply a rose by sight....it isn't hard to do and is momentus if you have never painted before!
Step3
Chocolate. Eat some chocolate everyday for pleasure and to remember the joy of life or as the French would say...Joi de Vivre. C'est la Vivre!