Tag: life coach

  • Podcast: What Do You Really Want?

    We often say we want one thing, say a million pounds, but what we really want is to give up our day job and go and live on the Costa Del Sol. Rather than focusing on what you think might get you what you really want, why not focus on what you REALLY want? Sometimes…

  • Dreams To Reality Podcast: Acclimatize Yourself To Your Big Dream

    You’ve found out what your big dream is…now what? Aaaaargh! Don’t worry! Relax. Take the time to acclimatize yourself to your big dream. Give yourself a chance to get used to it, sniff around it, feel how you feel about it, ruminate, consider, and ponder. To listen to this week’s podcast, click here: Acclimatize Yourself…

  • You Should Do This Challenge

    What should you be doing? Instead of reading this? Instead of relaxing? Instead of having a nice weekend? Instead of enjoying your life? Possible answers: working; doing chores; visiting family; making things happen. “Should” really is a cruel word. It manages to make you feel guilty, lazy, unsuccessful, and bad about yourself in just 6…

  • Olympic Gold in Baby Steps

    Olympic Gold in Baby Steps

    You may have heard about the success of the British Cycling Team this Olympics. If not, they got 7 track cycling gold medals. Pretty good, eh? So good, that the talk from the rest of the world was ‘how are they doing it’ with the implication that GB cycling had some kind of magic advantage…

  • Whose Idea Was Growing Up, Maturing, Getting Serious?

    At what point did you stop being silly? At what age did you lose your sense of the ridiculous? When did the absurd, bizarre and comic become less important than your responsibilities and duties? When did you Grow Up, Mature, Get Serious? Can you pinpoint the age you were when you stopped laughing so much?…

  • Going for Gold

    [caption id="attachment_3754" align="alignleft" width="300"] Image credit: Mxruben on Morguefile[/caption]Have you been watching the Olympics? I have been thoroughly enjoying them – the emotion, the achievement, the brilliance of the athletes is incredibly inspiring. One of the things that has really struck me about all the athletes is how hard they’ve worked to get where they…

  • Setting Your Day Up For Success

    This month, I am experimenting with a new way of working (Inspired by Heather Waring’s tip to Do the most important thing first). In the past, I have logged into e-mail, facebook, twitter and gone through them first thing in the morning, then started on my endless ta-dah lists, usually having 20 windows open on…

  • Podcast: Internal Chatter and Your Big Dream

    We all have the internal chatter in our minds that tells us we suck, or we can’t do it, or we’re scared, or we just want to go and play and watch tv. It can come from an inner critic, an inner child…another part of you, that’s actually trying to help you, believe it or…

  • Ask Donna: My Husband is Not Supportive

    Click here to watch this week’s video Q: I told my husband about my Big Dream…and he is not supportive at all. In fact, he seems to be deliberately making life harder for me. I love him, but I also want to pursue my Dream…do I have to choose between them? Chris. Firstly have compassion…

  • A Remarkable Life in a Conventional World

    Yesterday over on Jamie Ridler’s website, Jamie announced a give-away, and to enter, you need share your best tip for “living a remarkable life in a conventional world” in the comments. As I started to write my best tip, I realised there is a whole blog post in it! To live a remarkable life in…