Category: Blog posts

  • Podcast: Creativity and Your Big Dream

    I thought I wasn’t creative for YEARS…then I realised that I was writing…and that’s creative; and I was marketing my business…and that’s creative; and I was using creativity in my coaching conversations; and I was tapping into this immense well of creativity in more and more ways – and realising that not only was I…

  • Ask Donna: My Big Dream Got Stuck Should I Keep Going?

    To watch this week’s video: Click here Q: I have been merrily taking action on my Big Dream for months now, and all of a sudden I seem to have got stuck. I can’t see any sign that what I’m doing is working and I’m wondering whether to bother keeping going? – Elaine Sadly, for…

  • Podcast: Taking Risks and Your Big Dream

    Your Big Dream lies outside your comfort zone…so do you need to leap out of your comfort zone, take big risks, jump out of the plane?? Or is there another way? I believe so…an easier way, a gentler way. Just nudge the edges of your comfort zone, put a toe outside your comfort zone and…

  • Ask Donna: Huge Knockback to My Big Dream

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  • You Gotta Have Friends

    Among the many wonderful things about self-employment, there are a few things that totally suck. One is the fact that every day you have to pick yourself up to work – whether you feel good or bad, prosperous or broke, whether everything is going well or everything is going wrong, whether you have lots of…

  • Podcast: Supporting Yourself And Your Big Dream

    How many of us support ourselves fully, 100% of the time? Even when you’re gnarly or grumpy or lazy or procrastinating. Imagine how much easier life would be if you supported yourself 100%. Supporting yourself when you’re doing something ‘bad’ or ‘wrong’ is about figuring out what’s behind it all and helping yourself move forward…

  • Ask Donna: Multipassionate Entrepreneur

    http://youtu.be/je3K1uJCLmc Q: My Big Dream is to have a business that embraces all my passions – art, making fabric bags, writing, feng shui…but everyone keeps telling me to pick one and focus on it. I don’t want to, and when I do, I feel like I’m cheating on my Big Dream. – Andrea Be the…

  • Happy Dance Practice Wrap-Up – The Best Of

    So, the April Daily Practice was Happy Dancing! Did you join in? Did you have fun? Or if you didn’t join in, what stopped you? I must admit, I wasn’t as committed to this practice as I have been to others…but I did it about 20 times in the month, and thoroughly enjoyed it…and I’ve…

  • Podcast: Comparison and Your Big Dream

    Comparing an apple and an orange leaves both apple and orange feeling somehow lacking. And when we compare ourselves to someone else, we seem to pick those people who are 8000 steps ahead of us, people who will really show up our inadequacies! When you see someone else you admire, look at what they are…

  • May Daily Practice: Write

    Over the past few years, I have re-discovered the joy of writing. Not just writing books, blog posts, courses (although that’s been fun!), but writing journals…diaries if you like. I wrote lots of diaries as a kid, I thought I was Adrian Mole. But then I got out of the habit of processing my thoughts…