Some Ideas for you to Try

A bit of Tuesday fun!
Be A Kid Again
1. Do a cartwheel.
2. Sing into your hairbrush.
3. Walk barefoot in wet grass.
4. Play a song you like really loud, over and over.
5. Dot all your “i”’s with smiley faces.
6. Read the funnies. Throw the rest of the paper away.
7. Dunk your cookies.
8. Play a game where you make up the rules as you go along.
9. Step carefully over sidewalk cracks.
10. Change into some play clothes.
11. Try to get someone to trade you a better sandwich.
12. Eat ice cream for breakfast.
13. Kiss a frog, just in case.
14. Blow the wrapper off a straw.
15. Have someone read you a story.
16. Find some pretty stones and save them.
17. Wear your favorite shirt with you favorite trousers even if they don’t match.
18. Take a running jump over a big puddle.
19. Get someone to buy you something you really don’t need.
20. Hide your vegetables under your napkin.
21. Stay up past your bedtime.
22. Eat dessert first.
23. Fuss a little, then take a nap.
24. Wear red gym shoes.
25. Put way too much sugar on your cereal.
26. Make cool screeching noises every time you turn a corner.
27. Giggle a lot for no reason.
28. Give yourself a gold star for everything you do today.
29. Have Eggs and Soldiers for breakfast
30. Wave insanely at passing drivers from the car window

Love

Donna.x
PS please tell me if you do some of these things, especially the sandwich trading one!!!

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A Visit to Childhood

So last week I was asking what would happen if you put your magical child energy in charge of your life. What did happen? Did you put magical child in charge or did you read it, smile gently and get back to being a sensible grown up?

To be honest with you, I asked the question, went for the snooze my magical child suggested and then forgot about it…until Tuesday night. Tuesday was a funny old day weather-wise – one minute it would be sunny and nice, the next it would be pissing it down with rain…and then 2 minutes later, sunshine again. This went on all day, and eventually I was watching the latest downpour thinking ‘I’m going to go and dance in the rain’…

Sadly my sensible adult self talked me out of it, and 2 minutes later the torrential rain was gone and the sun was back. I went outside with the dog and realised there was a HUGE puddle outside my house. This time sensible grown up Donna had no chance and I jumped right in the middle of that puddle about 5 times! I couldn’t even tell you WHY that was such fun, but it was! Then yesterday my friend and I went to the local playing fields and just had a go on the swings for 5 minutes.

And today I just had a brainwave – I was wondering if YouTube had any clips of the Magic Roundabout, or Pob, or Dastardly and Mutley…and they do! Ok, perhaps sensible grown up Donna will say I need to do some work…but I’ll just check out some cartoon fun for 10 minutes first. And tomorrow…I’m thinking glitter and glue…what do you think?

Love

Donna.x

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Put the Magical Child in Charge

A short thought today from my Twitter account:

If you put your magical, childlike energy in charge of your life, how much more fun would life be?

Let me know what your magical, childlike energy has to say to you about today. Mine is saying ‘snoooooze’!

Love

Donna.x

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What Did You Lose When You ‘Grew Up’?

Whatever happened to the sense of wonder and awe you felt as a child? Whatever happened to your belief in fairies, your capacity to laugh at the silliest things, your ability to be creative, resilient and goofy? Today, recapture that sense of ‘childishness’ in your adult life – you might be surprised at how much you lost when you ‘grew up’!

Love

Donna.x

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OnTheBeach – 6 Years Old Again

- 6 years old again -

So after my speech about letting out the inner child on Tuesday, a couple of people were wondering…well, how? I make it look so easy (but yes, I did feel like an idiot), but when you’re used to acting like a grown up, how do you start being a kid again? Some of the boys at Toastmasters had NO trouble at all…but it’s easy enough in a safe space when you’ve been given permission. How do you bring ‘childishness’ into your real life??

The good news is, you don’t have to throw a tantrum, take drugs or make an utter fool of yourself to do it. You don’t have to do it in front of anyone (yet) – you can dance around like a loon to your favourite music, jump up and down with excitement about ice cream, play hopscotch, watch a cartoon (Jungle Book is my favourite!), get some colouring pens and a colouring book (or paint by numbers if you want to pretend to be an adult), read a kids book (Mr Men!), clap excitedly when Heroes is on telly, play dress up, climb a tree, make a daisy chain…all without involving anyone else!!!

If you’ve got kids it’s even easier, because you can play with their toys and get involved in their games and everyone just thinks you are a good parent! But if not, don’t despair. Childishness is just around the corner… For example, I was in Sainsburys the other day and I happened to notice in the garden section a bubble gun! YES! A toy gun that you attach bubble mixture to and when you pull the trigger, bubbles come out. BRILLIANT!

Except…it doesn’t work. Rubbish. So I got to do the sulky child bit too because I couldn’t get it to work properly. Now I have to involve someone else if I want to get the stupid thing working. Anyway, my point is that no one in the shop knew I bought it for me…and if I decide the shame is too much to admit I bought it, no one but you ever needs to know (promise you won’t tell – cross your heart?!).

I have to say though, I’ve found that most people are quite open to a bit of silliness and play. Why do you think we like little kids so much? It’s not their scintillating conversation, it’s the fact that they are open-hearted, curious, they laugh easily, they make us laugh and we get to play…just to play. When was the last time you played, just to play? Not because you had to, or because someone made you?

Seriously, if you want to behave like a child again, find ways to do it that feel comfortable – don’t wait til you have the courage or the confidence or you won’t feel like an idiot (that will never happen!) or the moon in Sagitarius – just do it when no one is looking. Soon, you will be involving those people in your life who also have an active inner child…and before you know it, you’ll be embarrassing everyone else on holiday by running whooping into the sea!!!! And I’ll be right there beside you, bucket and spade in hand.

- Something To Play With -

What did you love to do when you were a little kid? What would you love to do now? If no one was watching, would you go on the swings or slide, would you play musical statues or musical bumps, would you spin round until you were dizzy, would you read The Faraway Tree (I read it again last year – it’s ACE!), would you get out the lego…Hmm, if you’ll excuse me, I’m sure I have got some lego somewhere… Why are you still sat there? Go and play! Want to share how you are going to play??? Leave me a comment below!

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Bring Out Your Inner Child – Toastmasters Speech AC9

My Toastmasters Advanced Communicator 9 Speech

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