A Month Of Giving

As we’re coming up to Christmas, I thought this video might inspire you to think of your giving in a different way…and I’m thinking I might do this challenge myself in December (well, it sounds easier and more fun than nanowrimo!)

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Love

Donna.x

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Giving Thanks

Today is Thanksgiving holiday in the US. Now this is a holiday I like! It’s all about good food and appreciation. What a great reason for a day off. Although we don’t celebrate it here in the UK, it’s a good reminder to appreciate what you have. All to often we go through life just focusing on what is missing.

So today, Happy Thanksgiving to you guys in the US, and congratulations on having a fabulous holiday about appreciation. I salute you! And for the rest of us, let’s take a few minutes today to count our blessings. We have so much to be thankful for. And I would like to thank YOU for reading, for commenting, for being the reason that I write blogs. I appreciate your presence on my blog more than you will ever know. Thank you.

Love

Donna.x

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If You Can’t Think Of Anything Nice to Say, You’re Not Trying Hard Enough

You will probably have heard the saying “If you can’t say anything nice, don’t say anything at all”. But all that means is that you have a lot of ‘not-nice’ things unsaid. So I’d like to challenge you now – think of someone that you have nothing nice to say about…and try harder to find something nice to say!

Find their good points, compliment them, appreciate them, big them up to other people. Not only is this more fun than gossiping and running people down, it’s quite amazing what happens when you start being nice. You get back what you give out, and when you are looking for the good in people, you find that they are a sparkling diamond. A marvelous discovery!

Love

Donna.x
PS I’ve always liked you, you have excellent taste in blogs! xx

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Nanowrimo Update – 1 Week To Go

Well, there’s only a week to go until November is over and I’ll either be a Nanowrimo winner (having written 50000 words) or loser (having written less). Of course, whether I win or lose, I will still have learnt some incredilbe things about the process of writing a novel – among which is the need to note down somewhere what my characters do for work so I don’t have to re-read 25000 words to find out!

As of this moment, I am at 35000 words or thereabouts, still have 15000 more to go and I am really wishing I hadn’t started this challenge! But such is the nature of a challenge, it seems like a good idea at the time, then you wonder if you have become bereft of all reason, then you complete the challenge and are enormously proud of yourself and glad you did it.

Then of course comes the resolve never to do such a barmy thing ever again, and 1 year later you find yourself signing up to do exactly that! Lol. So, with only just over a month to go til 2009 ends, what challenge are you going to take up? (if you’re interested in a fun one, make sure you check the blog on Friday for a GREAT challenge!)

Wish me luck with my last 15000 words, and if anyone has any creative energy to send my way…I need it! Thank you!

Love

Donna.x

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Blessed Solitude

I’ve been reading Anne Morrow Lindberg’s ‘Gifts From The Sea’ this week – where she writes what comes to her when she is looking at seashells. Last night I was reading her thoughts about the need to spend time in solitude. At the time of writing she was spending a week alone on an island – real solitude! Most of us cannot arrange our lives to spend quite that much time alone, but it got me wondering how much time you get alone?

It’s only when we’re alone that we can be in touch with who we really are – the rest of the time we are pushed and pulled by the world around us. The inner stillness that is who we really are is something rarely experienced by many of us. And yet it is not so difficult to get that time. It only needs a few minutes a day. For some people, meditation is the way to solitude, for others it’s time in nature, for others the only time they’re alone is when they’re in the bathroom!

For me, it’s last thing at night when the dog drags me outside. On a clear night, I can see the stars – and this week I saw 2 meteorites so that made me happy. I’m only out there for 10 minutes, but for that brief time, there is no noise. No tv, no radio, no talking, no traffic, nothing but blessed solitude. And there are days (like yesterday) when I am convinced that without that 10 minutes, I would become unhinged!

Make sure you are taking care of your need for solitude, quiet time, peace – when you can hear the whispers of your heart.

Love

Donna.x

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Are You Being Brilliance?

Inside all of us is the knowledge of who we could be…not the ’stick thin woman trying to get out from under a layer of jaffa cakes’, but the core of our being – that bit that knows ‘there is more to me than this’. Inside you there is a wonderful, beautiful, loving, brilliant woman (or man). And you know it.

Are you being that Shiny Gorgeous Brilliance? Or is that brilliance hidden behind layers of self-doubt, stress, frustration, anger, and lack of confidence? Chinks of it still shine through – I can see it from here. Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to start deliberately allowing that brilliance to shine through.

They’ll be able to see you from another galaxy if you do. They’ll look up at the stars, and there you will be, shining across a million light years.

Love

Donna.x

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Abandon Your Inhibitions

Last night I went to see my favourite band in the world, Muse. They are INCREDIBLE live – simply awesome! Anyway, these days I usually stand to the back of the crowd, in plenty of space to dance – I’m less bothered about seeing (although last night I was stood near the cameras so I could see on their screens which was good!) than in losing myself in the music.

Something seems to take over me when I’m at a gig – I become infused by the spirit of Tigger, Zebedee, and if it’s rocky, some headbanging nutter! At one point I noticed that I really was dancing like no one was watching – I had absolutely no shame at all. Once upon a time I would have held back a little, been a bit self-conscious, but last night it wasn’t even as if no one was watching. I just didn’t care!

This is SO freeing, it is so empowering, and it made a night that was already going to be fantastic EVEN BETTER. We get inhibited when we’re small, when we’re told that it’s naughty, or wrong, or something to be embarrassed about when we are uninhibited, but now we’re older we can start to drop some of those chains and dance free, sing free and live free.

You don’t have to be a cross between a headbanger and Tigger/Zebedee, but you can just drop one chain at a time, and start to laugh freely, speak more freely and enjoy your life more freely.

Love

Donna.x

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If It Wasn’t Personal…

I was talking to a friend last night about taking things personally. In the UK, we have a horrible habit of taking things personally – someone is a bit ‘funny’ with us and we take it personally, our employer brings in a new rule and we take it personally, the weather is rubbish and we take it personally.

I remember a friend of mine being really worried that she’d upset somebody who she thought was blanking her. She couldn’t think what she’d done, and she mithered about it for weeks. In the end, she asked this woman if she was ok, and she wasn’t – she had been diagnosed with cancer! It was absolutely sod all to do with my friend.

Much as we like to believe that we are the centre of the universe, we’re not for anyone but ourselves…and that’s as it should be! So the next time that you notice that you are taking something personally, ask yourself “What if this isn’t personal?” and relax – your life will be much easier when you don’t take every little thing personally.

And if it is personal…so what?! Even if someone does have a problem with YOU, it’s THEIR problem. Let them keep it.

Love

Donna.x

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My New Theme Tune

This is being used in an advert at the moment, and every time I hear it I laugh. I’m adopting it as my new theme tune – especially on Fridays!

What’s your theme tune?

Love

Donna.x

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End 2009 With Some Sparkle!

Introducing my end of year special offer – 3 coaching sessions to help you round up your year with a bit of Sparkle!
1. What exactly do you want? Get some clarity about this year/your life, and let’s get excited about the life you want!
2. Inspired action. Nothing will happen if you do nothing (you may have noticed this already!), but you also don’t want to just run around like a headless chicken! Inspired action that is easy and fun is the way forward.
3. ENJOYING your life – what do you enjoy, what do you love to do, are you enjoying your life and how can you enjoy it EVEN MORE? Plus we’ll talk about how you ‘keep it going’ into next year and beyond.

Option 1: Cost: £120 for 3 50 minute coaching calls, plus e-mail support up to the week before Christmas (this is a 3 for 2 price!). Numbers are limited so get in touch now. All calls must be taken by 18th December 2009.
Option 2: Cost: £100 for unlimited e-mail coaching to 18th December 2009 – this is 6 weeks for the price of 4. This is a fabulous option for people who are in a different time zone, time pressed, or just want to work on themselves at ‘off-peak’ times!
To sign up for this program, contact me with “I’m Gonna Sparkle” in the subject line!

To make the most of these offers, get in touch asap!

Looking forward to talking to you.

Love

Donna.x

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