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  • Feel Happy Now by Michael Neill

    Feel Happy Now by Michael Neill is an easy to digest, fun book about…happiness. Michael gives very specific exercises to up your happiness quota – my favourite being ’swimming with the en-dolphins’! This is a ridiculously easy exercise, which does not involve a trip to the sea, vast amounts of money or for you even…

  • If you had 100% self belief…

    I came across this question a week or so ago “If you believed in yourself 100%, what would you do differently?” – at the time I was working on my ebook project, and the first answer to spring to mind was that I would start asking people to look at the first draft and give…

  • Let’s Get Happy.

    Don’t wait for the circumstances of your life to be ‘perfect’ before you’re happy, get happy now. How? By noticing the little stuff that makes you happy, and consciously enjoying yourself. So the next time you are in the bath, or enjoying a meal, or reading a book, or out with friends, notice your happy…

  • OnTheBeach – A Shining Beacon of Light

    A note from Donna Brrrrrr…Well, I can now feel November approaching in the air – the good news is that I am writing this sat beside a roaring fire and I don’t have to go back outside today. I’m sure I was a bear (or some other hibernating creature) in a previous life! I’m making…

  • Releasing the Pain

    The first anniversary of my uncle’s death has just passed…I can hardly believe that it’s been a year already – where does the time go? In an attempt to finally process what happened, I’ve been looking at my diaries and blog entries for this time last year, and finally writing about what happened. I’m letting…

  • OnTheBeach – Help! I Need Somebody

    A note from Donna Not for the first time, I needed to read what I wrote this week! It is the anniversary of my uncle’s death today…and my friend reminded me that I mustn’t be down on my own – that she’d help me!! Thanks mate. xxx Help! I need somebody If you are anything…

  • Keep Your Sense of Humour

    Listening to Kerrang yesterday, I was entertained to hear the following: “..and in the news, everything is looking bleak for everyone…and there’s a strong chance of drizzle”. I’ve said before that I got really tired of hearing the doom and gloom – the attitude that everything is terrible irritates me, because I just don’t believe…

  • Share Your Gifts…Even If You’re Not Ready

    It never fails to entertain me that the articles I am least happy with are almost always the ones that have the greatest impact on readers! This week I realised on Sunday night that I hadn’t written my article for Monday morning, so I grabbed an idea, rushed out a mini-article on it and set…

  • OnTheBeach – Getting Away From It All

    A note from Donna Thanks to the wonders of modern technology, I thought I had written, saved, and scheduled my newsletter for today long ago. Sadly I was completely and utterly mistaken! So this is being hastily written on a Sunday evening while watching Stephen Fry drive a black cab around the USA… So I’ll…

  • Disturbing the Water

    I went for a swim today, and once again was struck by the differences in the way people swim. Some have their own unique strokes that look enormously inefficient but get them up and down the pool faster than I can move! Some disturb the entire pool, thrashing through the water and in the process…