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  • You’d Think I’d Know Better

    Despite knowing that I get my worst and least work done when I am feeling uninspired, still I find myself forcing myself to sit at my desk and ‘get on with it’. Instead of getting up, stretching, playing with the dog, dancing, singing, laughing, getting some fresh air, blowing bubbles, bouncing on the trampoline or…

  • The Standard of Success Is Joy

    “The standard of success in life isn’t the things. It isn’t the money or the stuff. It is absolutely the amount of joy that you feel.” – Abraham Couldn’t have said it better myself. Happy Monday! Love Donna.x

  • The Best For You

    This week’s OnTheBeach Article – to receive it every Wednesday, sign up here. Something I come across often in clients is that we expect the best from ourselves, but rarely give ourselves the best. There is some kind of paradox that says we should be superwoman …yet we don’t deserve to be given the very…

  • What’s Your Life About?

    If you had to say what the ‘theme’ for your life was, what would it be? For too many of us, it is ‘misery’, ‘working hard’, ‘getting through the day’ – and largely because we don’t pay attention to what we WANT our life to be about and take steps to make that happen. So…

  • The Heart of the Matter

    So tell me what you want, what you really, really want (and then PLEASE forgive me for quoting the Spice Girls!) Do you know what you want? And why do you want that thing? Keep asking why do you want that, and why do you want that, and why, why, why until you get to…

  • Paddle Your Own Canoe. Your Way

    I was just reading a newsletter from Chris Guillibeau of The Art of Non Conformity, and he got me thinking. He was talking about going against conventional wisdom. For example, Henry Ford said “If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said “faster horses.”” Yet ‘conventional wisdom’ says ask your customers what…

  • Wearing Your Stress as a Badge of Honour

    I was speaking with a client this week about her work ethic and how this affected her stress levels. She told me that she wears her stress ‘like a badge of honour’. She is proud of how much stress she can take. She is rewarded for taking on more projects than one person can reasonably…

  • Some Ideas for you to Try

    A bit of Tuesday fun! Be A Kid Again 1. Do a cartwheel. 2. Sing into your hairbrush. 3. Walk barefoot in wet grass. 4. Play a song you like really loud, over and over. 5. Dot all your “i”’s with smiley faces. 6. Read the funnies. Throw the rest of the paper away. 7.…

  • A Bit of Monday Fun: Random Thoughts

    I saw this over the weekend and it made me laugh a lot so thought I’d share it with you: Today’s Random Thoughts (not mine, but funny just the same!) 1. I think part of a best friend’s job should be to immediately clear your computer history if you die. 2. Nothing sucks more than…

  • Keep Seeking Your Passion

    I was having a clearout this weekend, and I came across a couple of courses I did back in the late 90’s – Positive Thinking and Journalism. I had a little chuckle to myself at the memories of these courses – I thought the positive thinking course was a bit thin, not that useful, but…