Following Your Intuition Is Always Right, Especially When It Makes No Sense

<big>I had followed my intution a few times in my life, but the time it became really obvious that my intuitive guidance was “right” was when I made the decision to go to Australia about 10 years ago. Up until the day I decided to go, I’d NEVER wanted to do any such mad thing – I mean, how many shoes can you get in a backpack anyway?

Understandably, all my friends were baffled and worried. Some of them told me I was mad, some tried to talk me out of it – pointing out that I usually manage to lose cinema tickets between the kiosk and the screening room (and excellent point!). I ignored all of it, only able to explain with “I know it’s the right thing to do.”

Did I ever have regrets? A couple of times – usually when I was tired, broke, lonely and being kept awake by other backpackers “getting busy”. Shudder. But apart from those very few moments, this illogical, out of character, strange decision was the best one I ever made. And now, if I ever get intuitive guidance that doesn’t appear to make sense, I pay a lot of attention!

Following that intuitive guidance brings you confidence in yourself, even when it doesn’t ‘work’ like you think it should, the very fact that you trusted yourself enough to take action gives you confidence. It can bring you adventure, fun, joy, love, sunsets over distant oceans, but most of all it brings you LIFE because your intuition will take you where you want to be, it will challenge you (gently if you ask it to!), and it will stretch you…which will make you feel alive.

So, what’s your intution telling you right now?

Love

Donna.x

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Discover Your Unique Essence

This weekend I’ve been watching some Faaaaaaaaabulous videos from Sandy Grason about building your empire, masterminding and your unique essence. And I thought that you would love the process for discovering your unique essence. If you’d like to watch the video about it, click here.

In a nutshell, the process is this: 1. Get a sheet of paper and write “I am” at the top and 1 to 10 down the side. 2. Imagine yourself a year from now – your life has gone better than you could ever have dreamed. Revel in that picture of you. 3. Write down the first 10 words you think of to describe who you are being in that picture. Don’t edit, don’t second guess and just write. 4. Write out your “I am” statement with the 10 qualities and add “I allow the pure expression of my (your name)-ness to shine forth in every moment”.

5. Share it in a comment here. Here’s mine:

I am passionate, funny, confident, strong, articulate, joyous, energetic, magnetic, expressive, a leader with a super strong belief in the pure magnificence of people, authentic, playing full out, expansive and laid-back. I allow the pure expression of my Donna-liciousness
to shine forward in every moment.

Woohoo!

Love

Donna.x

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When I’m On Good Form

When I am on good form, I am a business GENIUS! When I am on good form I am creative, productive, focused, I have a lot of fun and life is easy. When I am on good form I enjoy life more. When I am on good form I don’t take the bullshit so seriously. When I am on good form I am confident in my own skin. When I am in good form I am joyful, fun and energetic.

When I am on good form, I am the real me – magnificent, unique and have a great sense of humour and a lust for life.

So the only question I need to answer is: what can I do daily to get me on top form?

And the question I want to ask YOU is: who are you when you are on top form? And what can you do daily to get you on top form?

Leave a comment and let me know your thoughts.

Love

Donna.x

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Seeking the Gift

So, as you will know if you’ve been following this blog closely (and the website worked when you came to read it!), you will know that a couple of weeks ago I had technical issues. And then last week I had a few more technical issues which resulted in me not being able to blog at all for the whole week. Pah.

But of course, it got me thinking. As I said last time I talked of this, shit happens…and there is usually a diamond somewhere in the shit-heap! The first step is to not let it discombobulate us (I’ve always wanted to use that word in a blog!). The next step is to look for the gift. If you look hard enough, you may even find several gifts.

For example, I can focus on the inconvenience of not being able to blog, or I can focus on the fact that I had a week off writing (yes, it would have been nice if I’d got ahead of myself, but that was never going to happen!), the fact that I had time to focus on some ‘offline’ stuff I’ve been neglecting, the fact that I had a good reminder to put some ‘plan b’s in place for times of technological meltdown!

And I’m certain that more good stuff will come from it. I’m noticing as I am writing this that I am enjoying it more than I had been, so it has reminded me how much I love to write this blog. All good. So what is going wrong in your life right now, and what is the gift in that ‘wrongness’?

Love

Donna.x
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A Birthday Message from Myself

Among the many good wishes and messages I got on Thursday for my birthday (thank you, by the way if you were one of them!), I also got an e-mail from myself. I set this up a year ago, imagining the message I would like to get from myself in a year’s time. Then I promptly forgot all about it. Let me just share a tiny bit of it with you: “My dearest wish for you is that you will look in the mirror and see what I see – the dearest, most gorgeous, most fabulous woman in the world.”

Aw, aren’t I sweet?! And do you know what? This was one of the most treasured messages I got on my birthday. I was right, I judged it well – the message I sent myself was very well recieved, made me smile, made me laugh and it felt great! If you’d like to send yourself a message into the future, go along to futureme.org – but just do one thing for me – make it a positive, loving message. You do enough criticising yourself on a day to day basis. Make this message something you will feel great about receiving!

Love

Donna.x

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Natural Hibernation Time

I thought I wasn’t really getting affected by the winter season this year. I was wrong. I want nothing more than to light the fire, cuddle under the duvet with a hot water bottle and sleep until it’s not cold and horrible anymore. Interesting isn’t it, that we have all these wonderful inventions (electricity, tv, clocks, lighting) to keep us going 24/7, even when most other animals realise that the time has come to hibernate. Even the plants know it, it’s a time for rest.

Now, you can be out and be busy if it’s what you want to do, but me, I’m hibernating! Of course, it’s not entirely practical to just say ’see you in the spring!’ (much as I would LOVE to!) but I am certainly replenishing my reserves of fat (more chocolate please!) and sleeping more than I would in summer. And I don’t really care if someone thinks that’s lazy. Because they’re wrong. It’s nature darling!

Love (and snoozes!)

Donna.x

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All Wrote Out

Nanowrimo finished on Monday (national novel writing month), so I’ve been taking a break from writing out of sheer creative exhaustion! The challenge was to write 50000 words in a month. The idea being that when you’ve got 50000 words, you have the bones at least of your novel. Most people feel they have a novel in them, but most of them don’t ever write.

Nanowrimo gives them a reason to do it. So, is my ‘novel’ close to done? Nope. What I wrote SUCKS! The story wandered off in a different direction from the one I had in mind, the plot was lost within the first week, and because I didn’t keep a note of salient details about my characters, there are more inconsistencies than words. Well, almost! I seriously doubt that even with some rigorous editing this project will ever see the light of day.

So did I fail? Absolutely not. I now know 100 things I did not know before. I have a better idea of where my writing strengths (and weaknesses) lie. I ‘won’ in Nanowrimo terms – getting 50000 words done. It is an exercise in pure output that I have never done before, and that was an interesting experiment for me. Yeah, what I wrote sucks, but my first attempt at walking when I was little was embarrasingly bad too.

So was my first attempt at riding a bike, and don’t even speak to me about my first attempt at ice-skating! (Actually, I never got any better at that!) The trouble with so many of us is that we’re not prepared to fuck up. So we don’t even try. Guaranteeing failure. There are those who think I ‘wasted my time’ – they are sadly mistaken. I learned HEAPS! And I had fun. And I did it. So I’m really proud of myself for sticking at something even when I didn’t think it was working.

Every great novel started as a first draft that was probably rubbish, comparitavely. And who knows, once I have edited and polished my story, the plot may be found again, the inconsistensies corrected, the genius resurfaced (RAOFL). But even if not, did I waste my time? No. I grew. I challenged myself. I wrote myself hoarse. I’d rather grow and fuck-up than do nothing and watch my soul die.

Love

Donna.x

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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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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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