Dance, Dance, Wherever You May Be

It doesn’t matter how many times I see this video, it cracks me up every single time. Enjoy!

Happy Friday!

Love

Donna.x

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What Do I Wish for My Home?

Wishcasting Wednesday is here again.

What do I wish for my home?

My immediate, and slightly flippant (although still heartfelt) answer to this was: I wish my home to be in a beautiful climate with a west facing sea view. That is my ultimate wish! But then I read a few other wishcaster’s wishes and I got a bit more ‘present’. I wish for my home to be full of love, beauty, joy and inspiration. I wish my home to support me in enjoying my life to the full. I wish my home to be a place of flowing, positive energy. I wish my home to be beautifully simplistic (a challenge for a hoarder!). I feel a spring clean coming on!

Get involved on Jamie’s blog, or leave a comment here. As you wish for yourself, I wish for you also.

Love

Donna.x

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Release the Tension

Yesterday when I woke up, I realised I was tense. My shoulders were tense, my jaw was tense, even my eye muscles felt tense! Now it’s one thing to end the day feeling tense, but to start it feeling tense? Had I had a very stressful sleep? I realised that there’d obviously been a bit of a build up of tension so spent the day yesterday consciously relaxing whenever I thought of it, and noticing where I’m holding tension.

Join me – take a moment now to scan your body – are you holding tension in your scalp, your eyes, your jaw, your neck, your shoulders? Everywhere you find tension, release it. Move down the body all the way to your toes, releasing tension where you find it. Take a breath and mentally say to your muscles ‘relax’. When you’re done, get on with your day. Repeat as often as you feel it’s necessary. If tension is something you’ve been living with for a while, you may need to do it often to begin with, but it’s worth it.

Be relaxed as you go about your day.

Love

Donna.x

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30 Roses

I saw this today and it put a smile on my face – I hope it does for you too, to round off Valentine’s Week.

Love

Donna.x

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Loving You Is Easy

Ah, L’amour. On this Valentine’s day, is your world filled with love, mushy messages, flowers, chocolate, romance and adoration? I hope so. Valentine’s Day, love it or hate it, is a reminder to honour those we love. Did you honour the one you love who looked back at you in the mirror this morning? Have you done anything loving for yourself today? My guess is that the answer is no – most of us are terrible at loving ourselves, and much more comfortable looking for love from others. But when we do this, we are missing out on a fabulous source of love. We are cutting ourselves off from the endless well of love we have inside, and putting it in the hands of someone else…whose skills might not include giving love!

Do you love yourself? Do you appreciate your wonderful qualities? Do you enjoy your little foibles and odd habits? Do you adore who you are? Do you show yourself this love? Or do you hide the love behind a veil of criticism, judgement and fault-finding? Whether you are in a relationship arranged by Cupid himself, or whether you are single, loving yourself is one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself. You feel loved, whether the outside world is reflecting back your magnificence, beauty and gorgeousness or not. You are loved – you are an amazing human being. Look at you, you’re adorable!

So give yourself some love! How? Well how do you show love for your lovers, your friends, your family? Tell yourself ‘I love you’ in the mirror. Give yourself a kiss – go on, kiss your hand! Give yourself a cuddle – go on, do it. If anyone sees you, you can pretend you’re cold! Praise yourself. Go on a rampage of appreciation for yourself – list all the things you love about yourself: your sense of humour, your generosity, your beautiful eyes, the way you look when you laugh. Sing your favourite love song to yourself in the mirror. Do yourself a mixed CD of love songs. Buy yourself flowers, chocolates, jewelry. Ask yourself what is the most loving thing you can do for yourself when you’re making any decision.

The first time I sang a love song to myself in the mirror, I couldn’t stop laughing – it was the funniest thing! But after I’d done it, I did indeed feel more loved. It may sound a bit bonkers, but do it anyway – when you feel loved, you are more secure, happier, you are more able to give love…and more able to receive love, as well as attracting other people who reflect back to you how lovable and wonderful you are. Of course it’s lovely when someone else buys the flowers and chocolates, but don’t leave it in their hands alone. Love yourself. You deserve it. Altogether now…

When I see your face
There’s not a thing that I would change
Cause you’re amazing
Just the way you are

(Bruno Mars – Just the Way you are)

Mwah! With much love, Happy Valentine’s Day

Donna.xxx

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What Do You Wish To Dare?

Wishcasting Wednesday is here again.

What Do You Wish To Dare?

I’m a woman who always has hundreds of ideas of what to do with my business and my life, I’m usually working on at least 5 projects at a time, and humming along nicely with all of them. But this question forced me to see that I wish to dare to take a few more risks, to take a few big leaps. To instead of gently pushing the boundaries of my comfort zone, to leap outside it and do a happy dance!

What do you wish to dare? Get involved on Jamie’s blog, or leave a comment here. As you wish for yourself, I wish for you also.

Love

Donna.x

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Living Light

I’ve been having a little clutter clearout today. Just a little one. There was a time when I would wait until the clutter got on my nerves badly (and I had PMT) and basically throw everything I owned away then start rebuilding the clutter again. These days, I try to have a more consistent approach and clear clutter as I’m going along. So this morning the clutter I cleared wasn’t all the stuff on my desk (planning to tackle that this afternoon), but a few of the bits cluttering up my inbox and my facebook page.

Technology has given us new places to be cluttered and overwhelmed with ‘stuff’. In your e-mail and social networks, it’s not physical clutter…but it’s clutter nonetheless. E-mail subscriptions you never read, facebook ‘friends’ you barely know and whose updates bring you down. You don’t have to wait until it gets overwhelming and have a mad clearout, just notice on a daily basis the things that you could drop, delete, unfriend, throw out, recycle, give away or sell. Whether physical clutter or in cyber-space – if it’s not adding something good to your life, get rid of it.

Piece by piece you can clear out the things that are weighing you down, and start to live light.

Love

Donna.x

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Feeling Low as Rocket Fuel

What happens to your forward momentum and enjoyment of life when you feel down? Does your low feeling suck the life out of your dreams, desires and love of life? If your answer to that is yes, you’re not unusual. Most of us have a chain reaction to feeling low – feel down, start being negative, wonder if we’ll ever get to wherever it is you want to get, have a very glum face and no energy to move forward at all. We kind of wallow in that mud of misery for a while. After some time of idling and not moving forward, we start to get some forward momentum again and slowly our mood, energy and desire reawaken.

What if you were to use disappointments, doubts and fears to fuel your forward momentum? See them as like reaching the bottom of the swimming pool, if you use the bottom to propel you upwards, you will reach the surface faster and you may even (if you get it right) appear to leap out of the water, like a fish. How? As soon as you notice that you’re feeling a bit ‘meh’, use that as a reminder to take care of yourself, or a reminder to do something that energises you, or a reminder to go have some fun, or a reminder to focus on what you want.

Rather than being ruled by your feelings, use them as cues. It’s like when you see your fuel guage on the car is low, it reminds you to go to the petrol station. As soon as you notice you are feeling empty or low or fearful or discouraged, let it remind you to refuel in whatever way feels right to you. You know yourself best, and you will intuitively know what it is right for you to do. If you’re not that in touch with your intuition, this is a cue to work on sharpening your intuitive skills (which we all have by the way – and the more you use it, the more you will hear it and the more you will understand it).

And if you’re really unsure about what to do – laughter is always the best medicine!

Love

Donna.x

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Feeling Like A Fraud

A couple of people this week have been expressing their admiration, respect and appreciation for me. I accepted the compliments with grace as I always try to – I feel that deflecting a compliment is like throwing a gift back in someone’s face and telling them they’re wrong when they’re trying to be nice. However, I must admit that I felt like a bit of a fraud. Not because the things they were complimenting me for were not true, they were (I am fabulous! Lol), but because the good stuff is only half the story.

I might be inspiring because of my stubborness, determination and drive…but they don’t see the days when I can’t even be bothered to get out of bed and give up on the day before it’s even began. I might have written some inspiring stuff and made some inspiring videos, but they don’t show the days when I don’t have an idea in my head and struggle to write more than 4 words or fluff my lines 17 times before getting the video ‘right’. I might be gifted at coming up with easy ways to explain complexicated stuff, but there are times I struggle to remember words for ordinary, everyday things.

But isn’t that the case for each of us? We all have genius and brilliance and magnificence…and we all have moments of stuckness and ordinariness and being utterly rubbish. I felt a little uncomfortable with all the praise because underneath my genius and brilliance, I am an ordinary human being with foibles and f-ups and times when I am the worst of myself, not the best. So who says that ordinary human beings don’t deserve compliments?

I’d be very odd if I didn’t have my moments of being less than perfect…and this is what led to me getting over my discomfort. I ALWAYS notice my moments of imperfection. Occasionally (less these days, but I still do it), I give myself quite a bit of shit for my mistakes and for not living up to my idea of ‘the best of me’. I OCCASIONALLY notice my moments of brilliance, genius and magnificence (more these days, but some still pass me by!). So when other people pick up on those things, not only should I be graciously accepting the compliments, I want to be taking their cue – and remembering to appreciate my own brilliance, magnificence and genius.

Do you accept compliments graciously? Do you notice your f-ups way more than you notice when you ‘get it right’? Do you notice when you did something magnificent? Do you notice your moments of genius? Do you appreciate yourself? I’m guessing the answer is more no than yes, because most of us are way too hard on ourselves. So this week, make an effort to compliment yourself. Make an effort to see yourself at your very best and give yourself some credit for how magnificent you are. Yes, you.

If you struggle with this, that’s ok. Do it anyway. Find things about yourself to appreciate anyway. With practice it will get easier. And you can always practice on other people – noticing their magnificence, brilliance and genius will help open your eyes to your own. And before you start saying ‘oh but I’m not…’ – you are. You absolutely are. Everyone of us is a unique, magnificent, very special person. You are no exception. And if you need reminding of this, watch this video – it will remind you of who you ARE.

Love

Donna.x

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What Burden Do You Wish to Put Down?

Wishcasting Wednesday is here again. A thought-provoking one this week.

What Burden Do You Wish to Put Down?

The burden that I wish to put down is the burden of expectation. I have always had very high standards and expectations for myself. I always thought that this was a good thing – it fuelled my drive, ambition and determination to make the most of myself and my life. But it also gave me an impossible standard to live up to. So if I put down that burden of expectation, I still get to be my most brilliant, creative and determined self but I can relax about the outcome of that. I can just enjoy being the best of who I am and doing the best I can without the expectation to live up to. I can relax and just allow life to unfold around me. The more I think about it, the more I realise that this is a HUGE burden…and without it I feel light as a feather. Que Sera Sera!

What Burden Do You Wish to Put Down? Get involved on Jamie’s blog, or leave a comment here. As you wish for yourself, I wish for you also.

Love

Donna.x

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