Friday Fun: The Queen

‘Do you think the Queen’s ever pulled up the bedclothes and gone to Philip, “Look, I’m a stamp”?’ – Russell Howard

Genius!

If I’m ever featured on a stamp, I will!

Have a laughter-filled weekend!

Love

Donna.x

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Stop Putting Yourself Down in Front of Me

I put a little note in an e-mail to a friend the other day “Stop putting yourself down in front of me” – I was semi-kidding, as I’m quite self-deprecating myself, but there was also a serious element to it. Can you imagine if someone followed you round all day, telling you how much you sucked, how stupid, lazy, unattractive and ridiculous you are? How long would it take before you smacked them in the mouth?

Become aware of how much you put yourself down unconsciously – and how much other people do it too. Please do not berate yourself for doing it – it’s a habit we all fall into, and we’re not doing it to be mean, we’re doing it to motivate ourselves or protect ourselves or to help us reach another goal (eg calling us ‘fat’ when we reach for the chocolate and we’re supposed to be dieting!). Ultimately though, it’s not motivating, protective or helpful…so notice it in yourself and others and call it.

And don’t do it in front of me, or I will call you on it! (feel free to call me on it too!)

Love

Donna.x

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Never Mind Susan Boyle

This gave me a laugh the other night – sadly they didn’t get through to the Britain’s Got Talent final, with Su-Bo, but check out Faces of Disco – it’s a quality act!

View the video here

Enjoy!

Love

Donna.x

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Waking Up From the Dream

I was reading a blog post from break the illusion last week about the idea that life is but a dream that we wake up from when we ‘die’. I like to think that when I wake up from this dream, I’ll be really laughing at how seriously I took myself sometimes…and when I think that, I remember that my sense of humour, ability to love, and ability to find joy are my most important qualities.

Love

Donna.x

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If You Chase, It Will Run

What are you chasing after in your life? Money? Success? Boys? Girls? Happiness? When you chase after anything, it runs away. Let’s take happiness as an example here – you don’t have to ‘find’ happiness or chase it. You can be it, right now. No matter what’s going on around you, you can be happy now.

Try this:
What has been the best thing about today (or what will be the best thing about today)?
What was the last thing that really made you laugh? (see tomorrow’s blog for my FAVOURITE joke of the decade – it’s GENIUS!!!)
Talk about something that makes you happy – cuddles with your kids, sunshine, great music, your dog’s joy at seeing you when you’ve been gone 3 minutes, friends, lie-ins, singing, dancing, starlight…

Stop chasing what you want, and start EXPERIENCING it now instead.

Love

Donna.x

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Video Testimonial of 110 Steps to Heal Your Money

A testimonial for my ebook “110 Steps to Heal Your Money” from Jessie.

To see more testimonials or buy the ebook, click here.

Love

Donna

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Chanting On Top of a Mountain

This week I was sent a link to a video on YouTube of a ‘Miracle Mantra’, and just out of curiosity I went and had a look. To be honest, I didn’t expect to stick around long, I’ve never been into chanting unless I’m at a football game and it’s about how brilliant my team are. However, this mantra has got under my skin – really under my skin! I’m singing it in the shower, in the car, humming it while I’m cooking…

Originally, I had a look at the instructional video for this chant, and she suggested chanting for an hour – I thought ‘yeah, right, who has the time?’ But now, I find myself quite taken with the idea. I am Queen of the limited attention span so this might be another flash in the pan thing, but if you don’t hear from me for a while, I’m probably sitting on a mountain, chanting. Who’d a thunk??? That’s the funny thing about trying something new – you don’t know if it’ll ‘get’ you or bore you!

When was the last time you tried something new? Perhaps today you could try something new, and maybe, like me, you’ll be taken with it and find yourself understanding what all the fuss was about! (Or maybe you’ll be with me, sitting at the top of a mountain…chanting!)

Love

Donna.x

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How Do You Choose to Spend Your Time?

Tell me this, if I asked you what’s ‘wrong’ in your life, how long could you talk for on this subject?

And if I asked you what’s good about your life, how long could you talk for?

And which do you choose to talk about more?

I have spent a lot of time (for me) over the past few days telling people about how my life sucks. But the thing is, everyone has things ‘wrong’ with their life – the question is how do you choose to spend your time? Moaning about how life is crap, or appreciating just how good you have it? (And if you don’t think you have it good, spend a bit more time on thinking about what is good – air in your lungs is a good one!)

I chose to spend a goodly portion of my life over the past few days whinging (and I enjoyed it too!), but I know deep in my heart that I have much more to appreciate than I do to moan about, and now I’m choosing to remember that, and use that air in my lungs accordingly.

Love

Donna.x

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I’m An Euthor!

So after a week of heckling everyone I know to tell them that my ebook is now up and running, I’m finally catching up with all the ‘congratulations’ e-mails. One came this morning to say “Well done! How fabulous to be an author!”…only I don’t really feel like an author. My ebook is a digital product, and although the writing process was exactly the same as an author of physical books, I don’t feel right calling myself an author.

So I’ve decided I’m an Euthor (e-author!) or Ethor or Digi-thor. It doesn’t quite have the same gravitas as ‘Author’ I suppose, but it made me smile!

Have a fabulous weekend,

Love

Donna.x

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Seriously Grateful

This weekend I finished reading “A Thousand Splendid Suns” by Khaled Hosseini. It’s a tale of two women in Afghanistan, and like his first novel “The Kite Runner”, it’s a compelling story that will get its claws into your heart. I thoroughly enjoyed it, and I noticed that when I closed the book after reading the final page, my overwhelming feeling was one of gratitude.

You see, I was able to have an education. I have the choice of who I marry (or not). I was not sent away to live with a stranger 3 times my age at the age of 15. I do not live in fear of a beating daily. My home is not under threat of rocket launchers, bullets, or people who will punish me for watching tv. I don’t have to wear clothing that I can’t see through, and will trip over (unless I choose to).

I am not punished for not having children. No one considers me their possession. No one tells me what to do. I am not considered a second class citizen just because I have a womb. I could go on and on and on. And then this morning I was listening to an old song from the 70′s “Streets of London” by Ralph McTell. I’ll just give you a little excerpt from the lyrics:

In the all night cafe
At a quarter past eleven,
Same old man is sitting there on his own
Looking at the world
Over the rim of his tea-cup,
Each tea last an hour
Then he wanders home alone

So how can you tell me you’re lonely,
And say for you that the sun don’t shine?

I am seriously grateful for these two very poignant reminders that I have everything to be thankful for. Ok, I might not have the £millions I desire, or a fit bloke, or daily sunshine, or a maserati. But I do have freedom, friendship, opportunity, and today even sunshine. I am seriously blessed. Are you?

Love

Donna.x

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