Category: Blog posts

  • Going for Gold

    [caption id="attachment_3754" align="alignleft" width="300"] Image credit: Mxruben on Morguefile[/caption]Have you been watching the Olympics? I have been thoroughly enjoying them – the emotion, the achievement, the brilliance of the athletes is incredibly inspiring. One of the things that has really struck me about all the athletes is how hard they’ve worked to get where they…

  • Setting Your Day Up For Success

    This month, I am experimenting with a new way of working (Inspired by Heather Waring’s tip to Do the most important thing first). In the past, I have logged into e-mail, facebook, twitter and gone through them first thing in the morning, then started on my endless ta-dah lists, usually having 20 windows open on…

  • August Daily Practice: Fart Around

    As long time readers of this blog may remember, one of my all time favourite quotes is from American Writer Kurt Vonnegut “We are here on Earth to fart around. Don’t let anybody tell you any different.” When I was contemplating what the August Daily practice should be, I was thinking about my usual lack…

  • July Daily Practice Wrap Up: Yoga

    It’s the final day of the July Daily Practice of Yoga. Did you join in and do 10 minutes of yoga every day? If you did, give yourself a big Gold star! If you only joined in once, give yourself a gold star anyway…and if you meant to join in, but didn’t find the time,…

  • Ask Donna: I Have Too Many Ideas

    Watch video here Q: there is so much to do towards my Big Dream, I don’t know where to start. I seem to spend ALL my time jotting down MORE ideas…HELP! Kara Congratulations on having loads of ideas! Woohoo! Now, it’s time for ACTION! I suggest the 30 day action challenge – every day, take…

  • Too Much Information

    Picture it: Last week I had ONE night in all week. One. And what did I do? I spent 2 hours clearing out my e-mail. Not exactly what I had hoped to do with my night in. The plus of it was that I realised (once again) just how much crap I had subscribed to.…

  • Podcast: Internal Chatter and Your Big Dream

    We all have the internal chatter in our minds that tells us we suck, or we can’t do it, or we’re scared, or we just want to go and play and watch tv. It can come from an inner critic, an inner child…another part of you, that’s actually trying to help you, believe it or…

  • Ask Donna: My Husband is Not Supportive

    Click here to watch this week’s video Q: I told my husband about my Big Dream…and he is not supportive at all. In fact, he seems to be deliberately making life harder for me. I love him, but I also want to pursue my Dream…do I have to choose between them? Chris. Firstly have compassion…

  • A Remarkable Life in a Conventional World

    Yesterday over on Jamie Ridler’s website, Jamie announced a give-away, and to enter, you need share your best tip for “living a remarkable life in a conventional world” in the comments. As I started to write my best tip, I realised there is a whole blog post in it! To live a remarkable life in…

  • Podcast: Planning Time and Your Big Dream

    How much time do you spend planning your Big Dream? How much time do you spend thinking about all the actions you could take to make your Big Dream a reality? Or do you just (like me) fly by the seat of your pants and just do things as they occur to you? If you…