Tag: writing

  • 6 Tips for Getting Into The Writing Flow

    6 Tips for Getting Into The Writing Flow

    You know sometimes you sit to write your blog post, or your book, or the article you’ve been promising yourself you’ll write…and nothing. No words. No ideas. No clue. Or a disjointed mess of half-formed ideas that get deleted as fast as they come onto the page. You could (and sometimes I do) give up…

  • July Daily Practice: Send a Letter

    I have wanted to do this practice for ever such a long time, but kept putting it off because I didn’t have time to participate. Isn’t that sad? I don’t have time to sit down and write an old-fashioned letter and send it by snail mail. But I love receiving letters, and because they are…

  • Announcing the October Daily Practice: Morning Pages

    You may have already heard me discuss the Morning Pages on this blog or on Facebook. This is a practice I took on thanks to Jamie Ridler last May, and I haven’t looked back! I’ve now filled 9 books and countless pieces of paper, and I would no more drop this daily practice than I…

  • Video: Feel How You Feel

    Watch Video here My blog post launching this practice got lots of great comments which really added to the conversation – check it out. In this video, I talk more about feeling what you feel…When you allow yourself to feel your anger, your hurt, your fear, your pain, your sadness, they move through you instead…

  • Things Can Change In An Instant

    Things Can Change In An Instant

    Things can change in a very short period of time. One day you are unemployed, the next you are offered a job. One day you have no clients, the next 3 new people sign up. One day you have no sales of your book, the next you are getting e-mails from people all over the…

  • May Daily Practice Wrap-Up: Write

    Did you join in with the May Daily Practice of Writing? In case you did not, or if you missed any of the prompts, here they are: “My body is telling me…” “My Big Dream Is…” “My best self is…” “The things that bring me joy are…” “My self-care practice is…” “My deepest desire is…”…

  • Lies About Your Big Dream

    There are so many things we believe about our Big Dreams that just aren’t so. And most of them do not help us achieve our Big Dreams – most of them keep us stuck. So let’s bust some myths! I can’t do it. Think Barack Obama…YES WE CAN! If you have the seed of a…

  • 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…

  • Ask Donna: Childhood Dreams

    Watch this week’s Ask Donna video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uBBHCHmgNo0 Q: When I try to think about my big dream today, all I can think of is my big dream from when I was a kid – I wanted to play football! How can I get past this to what my big dream is now? Jon Our…

  • Ask Donna – Doubts and Fears About Publishing a Book

    To watch the video, click this link: http://youtu.be/5ivcKal0W2k Q: My big dream is to publish a book, I have so many ideas about it and have written it in my mind 10 times over. I like to think I can do it but then wonder who I am to think that I’m anywhere near good…