Category: Articles
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You Set the Tone
What was the tone you set for your day today? It’s a Monday, so I’m going to take an educated guess that you didn’t start the day with a woohoo! So how did you begin the day? ‘oh god, it’s Monday’; ‘another day…same old shite…’; ‘today is going to be a great day’? Most of…
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Unstick Your Stuck Pooh Stick
Remember Pooh-sticks? The game Winnie the Pooh and friends played where they drop a stick into the water on one side of the bridge, and the first stick to reach the other side wins. Now, imagine that life is like a game of Pooh sticks…and you are the stick. The stick is happily floating downstream…
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What do You Want For Others?
Yesterday I realised that I have been so caught up in the business of ‘making my business successful’ that I had forgotten the most important thing – what I want for my clients. Not from them, for them. You see, I want the people who come to me for coaching to be able to realise…
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Writing and The Work
A note from Donna I was telling a friend about this insight a couple of weeks ago, and she suggested that it would make an interesting article. This is based on ‘The Work’, a four-step process used by Byron Katie (see recommendation) – the premise is that you explore a stressful thought through these four…
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OnTheBeach – Drop the Story
We all have our stories – created by how we grew up, how our love life has gone, how our career has been so far, how our friendships and social life have been. Sometimes these stories can be useful – for example, you may know from experience that when somone only gives you their mobile…
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OnTheBeach – Are Your Good Habits Wrecking Your Life?
I have written a lot about self-care over the last few years (for my free ebook on self-care, click here), and the basic idea of self-care is doing things that care for you – physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually. I am often intrigued by how people (including myself) do the opposite of self-care, they self-hurt.…
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OnTheBeach – In It For The Long Haul
So how are things going in your one and only life? Everything going perfectly to plan? Every goal you’ve ever had achieved? Still as optimistic and positive as you were when you were 19? No? Welcome to the Human Race! Only it is not a race…there are no prizes for getting to the finish line…
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OnTheBeach – How Not to Motivate Me
I am really easy not to motivate – all you have to do is tell me I ‘have to’ do something and instantly I am demotivated. To make me even less motivated, tell me I’m lazy, stupid, need to buckle down, am at fault for everything wrong with my life and a total loser. Make…
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OnTheBeach – Coming To Play?
Something to play with For everything you are doing this week, tell yourself or your partner that you are ‘going out to play’, and see how much of a difference this makes to each task. Coming to play? I read something brilliant recently about a little girl who says to her auntie ‘I’m going to…
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OnTheBeach – Start As You Mean To Go On
Start As You Mean to Go On I woke up this year optimistic, feeling that life is brimming with possibilities, looking forward to the future and bubbling with ideas. I am looking forward to 2009. Louise Hay (see this month’s recommendation) says that we should make the decision every year that THIS year will be…