Ask Donna: Exhausted and Discouraged

Question: I am following my big dream and it’s been really hard work. I feel exhausted and discouraged, and worst of all I don’t feel I can talk about this as everyone keeps telling me to ‘be positive’ or give up. Maria

People who are not following their big dreams sometimes don’t understand those of us who are. Ask for the support you need from your friends – be really clear with them about how they can help you. Take a break from your big dream – when you are exhausted, the best thing you can do is relax and take a couple of days off from working on your big dream so you can replenish yourself and come back clear headed and chilled out.

Here’s the link to the podcast about the 3 Pillars: http://www.donnaonthebeach.com/blog/2012/01/dreams-to-reality-podcast-the-3-pillars/ – the 3 Pillars are self-care, energy and joy. If you’re not feeling cared for, you will feel exhausted and discouraged just because your self-care is low. If your energy is low, you have less to give your big dream. If you are not enjoying life…well, that sucks!

If you have a question, leave a comment below this post.

Love

Donna.x

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Ask Donna: I lost my job

I had a dream and was saving towards it, then I lost my job and I’m having to use my savings to live on. It feels like my dream has had to take a back seat and that makes me really frustrated and miserable (as well as being down because I’m unemployed) – Sharon

Look to the positive – you may not have money to pursue your big dream right now, but you do have a lot of time to work towards your dream if you are able to. When you have constraints, you can either get frustrated OR you can get creative and find new ways to do things (and you sometimes find a better way!)

Making progress on your dream will help you feel less frustrated, it will give you energy to help you find a job, and you will feel better. By the time you find another job, you will be further along with your goal and you can start saving money again.

I’m a big believer that life works for us, not against us, so ask yourself this: What if this situation was bringing you closer to your dream, not further away? Explore that possibility for a while and see how that could be true.

Love

Donna.x

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Ask Donna – Energetic and Healthy

I don’t know what my big dream is. The only thing I can think of is to be healthy and full of energy. But that is so far away from where I am right now – I am 4 stone overweight and exhausted all the time. – Cat

That sound like a fabulous big dream to me! Most big dreams come to you when you are a million mile away from them, so don’t worry about how far you have to go to get there – just start moving in that direction.

Every day, ask yourself ‘what can I do today to improve my health and improve my energy?’ Then do that thing – step by step, you will become more and more healthy and energetic. It will also allow your other big dreams to start to come to the surface when you’ve paved the ground to allow them.

Love

Donna.x

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Ask Donna: Making Your Dreams Reality Launch

Yay! It’s launch number 4! The video will tell you all you need to know:

So, what questions do you have about Making Your Dreams Reality?

Love

Donna.x

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The Real 12 Days of Christmas

Part of our Christmas tradition is to listen to Frank Kelly’s version of 12 days of Christmas – it never fails to make me laugh, and my dad cry…with laughter. ENJOY this video!

Wishing you the Merriest of Merry Christmas’s!

Love, light and laughter

Donna.x

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What One Person Can Do: The Penguin Lady

In case you, like Dyan deNapolis, have ever wondered “what difference can one person make?”…

Love

Donna.x

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An Invitation to Be Kind

I was watching Jamie Ridler TV today, and saw this video – and just adored it. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did…and that you accept the invitation this weekend.

Love

Donna.x

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A New Way to Look at Jealousy

I found this video through a friend of mine yesterday about jealousy. It’s a great way to reframe jealousy into a GOOD THING! Thanks to Marie Forleo for this new way to look at jealousy!

Love

Donna.x

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Now This Is Persistence!

Happy Friday! Been a bit quiet here this week because I had a very busy beginning to the week, then went down with laryngitis! Ugh. Anyway, hope you’ve all been well – and enjoy this bit of Friday Fun.

Watch this video

10 out of 10 for persistence, eh?

Love

Donna.x

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Busy Doing Nothing

Here in the UK we’ve had 2 long bank holiday weekends in a row, meaning we had a 4 day working week, followed by a 3 day working week, followed by another 4 day working week this week…and I have been tapped into the public mood of HOLIDAY. This song sums up perfectly what I’ve been doing over the past 2 weeks…

Time to refocus and get on with some stuff now!

Love

Donna.x

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