Tag: Donnaonthebeach
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You Should Do This Challenge
What should you be doing? Instead of reading this? Instead of relaxing? Instead of having a nice weekend? Instead of enjoying your life? Possible answers: working; doing chores; visiting family; making things happen. “Should” really is a cruel word. It manages to make you feel guilty, lazy, unsuccessful, and bad about yourself in just 6…
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Olympic Gold in Baby Steps
You may have heard about the success of the British Cycling Team this Olympics. If not, they got 7 track cycling gold medals. Pretty good, eh? So good, that the talk from the rest of the world was ‘how are they doing it’ with the implication that GB cycling had some kind of magic advantage…
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Whose Idea Was Growing Up, Maturing, Getting Serious?
At what point did you stop being silly? At what age did you lose your sense of the ridiculous? When did the absurd, bizarre and comic become less important than your responsibilities and duties? When did you Grow Up, Mature, Get Serious? Can you pinpoint the age you were when you stopped laughing so much?…
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Do You Believe In You?
In an interview I watched over the course of the Olympics, one of the coaches was asked what the most important factor was in the success of these athletes. Belief He said that you could see the athletes who didn’t believe they could do it…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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,…
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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…