Tag: joyful

  • OnTheBeach: Wake Up It’s a Beautiful Morning

    What do you wake up to? Do you wake up to the news telling you that it’s a depressing day in a depressing world? Do you wake up to some irritating idiot who thinks he’s funny? Do you wake up to a jarring beep-beep-beep-beep? Or do you wake up to something that fills you with…

  • April Daily Practice: Do What You Want To Do

    When was the last time you allowed yourself to just spend a day doing what you wanted to do? No chores. No doing things because they’re on your to do list. No meeting obligations. No ‘be here at that time’, then race to ‘be there at this time’. Just moment to moment, doing what you…

  • OnTheBeach: Stand Up For Who You Are

    Most weeks I notice a theme developing in coaching sessions, where all my clients that week (and often me, too) are dealing with a particular issue, whether it’s focusing on self-care and rest, taking action, blasting away fears or a myriad of other themes. It’s not often that a theme runs into 2 weeks though…but…

  • December Daily Practice: Joy

    Because I’m off to Rome next week, I wanted to choose the Daily Practice, and get the daily updates done early. So I’ve been thinking and pondering and trying to come up with something that is appropriate for the season and the time of year and somehow fits in with a trip to Rome, birthdays,…

  • Announcing the September Daily Practice: Feel How You Feel

    This practice, may, at first look, seem a bit of an odd one. After all, how can you feel anything other than what you feel? But so often, we do not allow ourselves to feel how we feel – either because the emotion is a ‘bad’ one, or because there’s no point feeling joyful because…

  • 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?…

  • June Daily Practice: Champagne Moments

    [caption id="attachment_2758" align="alignleft" width="300" caption=" "][/caption]Earlier this week I was listening to the cricket commentary, Test Match Special. At the end of the game, they nominate a ‘Champagne Moment’ – an outstanding and memorable moment in the match. And it got me thinking…what a GREAT daily practice! To notice and to nominate an outstanding and…

  • When I’m On Good Form

    When I am on good form, I am a business GENIUS! When I am on good form I am creative, productive, focused, I have a lot of fun and life is easy. When I am on good form I enjoy life more. When I am on good form I don’t take the bullshit so seriously.…

  • Don’t Curse the Dark, Light a Lamp

    Today while working on my daily October practice of Laughter, I came across a video from Dr Madan Kataria, the founder of Laughter Yoga, in which he talked about the ancient Indian wisdom which says ‘don’t curse the dark, light a lamp’. Most of us have a tendency to curse the dark, to complain about…

  • Enjoying the Win

    Last week, I was at a client’s offices and in the meeting room they had a picture titled “Face each problem with a will to win” with a picture of athletes in agony (marathon runners by the look of them). I admire the sentiment. Determination, tenacity and will gets you far. BUT. It’s the agony…