Tag: relax

  • Tension won’t help get it done

    Tension won’t help get it done

    Update on the editing project: I’m onto phase 3 – the edit of the paperback. Without going into too much detail, any changes to this document have the potential to cause mayhem in the formatting.  To give you a sense of how I normally work on this phase picture tears, rage, bewilderment, blind fury and…

  • Breathe, Slow Down, Unclench, Relax, Let Go of the Reins

    Breathe, Slow Down, Unclench, Relax, Let Go of the Reins

    Last week I was getting myself into a super-tizzy. The same super-tizzy I swore last year I’d never do again after nearly sending myself into a nervous breakdown over self-imposed deadlines. But this time was a little different…this time there was an awareness that this path does not lead to good places – it’s stressful,…

  • August Daily Practice: Let Yourself Off The Hook

    During my trip to Tenerife, I had such expectations of myself that I would do loads of work, and loads of yoga, and loads of meditation, and loads of other stuff that I would do if I was perfect. After 3 weeks of trying and failing to live up to my own impossible expectations I…

  • OnTheBeach: Lighten Up

    OnTheBeach: Lighten Up

    So last week I told you that when I chilled out about getting stuff done, I got more stuff done. It’s ironic, right? And yet today, again, I’m experiencing the truth of it – as soon as I relaxed about getting this article written (in fact, I’d decided not to write it today!), I started…

  • OnTheBeach: Self-Care Is Non-Negotiable

    OnTheBeach: Self-Care Is Non-Negotiable

    So this afternoon I was trying to work myself up to doing this newsletter…and struggling because I am super-tired and really want to sit in front of the fire reading my book. So, in true procrastination genius style, I went wandering off to read some blog posts…and found 2 that I really needed – one…

  • Ask Donna: Exhausted and Discouraged

    Video link: http://youtu.be/IffRAxCH60Q 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…

  • The Daily Constitutional

    In The Independent a few years ago, John Walsh wrote about the pleasures we have lost because we’re usually in so much of a hurry. Here’s part of what he wrote: “How long is it since you entertained the concept of Going For A Walk? I don’t mean the urgent dash to the shops on…

  • Release the Tension

    Yesterday when I woke up, I realised I was tense. My shoulders were tense, my jaw was tense, even my eye muscles felt tense! Now it’s one thing to end the day feeling tense, but to start it feeling tense? Had I had a very stressful sleep? I realised that there’d obviously been a bit…

  • Wearing Your Stress as a Badge of Honour

    Wearing Your Stress as a Badge of Honour

    I was speaking with a client this week about her work ethic and how this affected her stress levels. She told me that she wears her stress ‘like a badge of honour’. She is proud of how much stress she can take. She is rewarded for taking on more projects than one person can reasonably…

  • In Praise of Laze

    I was talking to someone I coached about 5 years ago the other day, and she reminded me of something I’d asked her to do – get comfortable with, and allow herself to be, lazy. Like so many other things, laziness gets such a bad rap that many of us will work ourselves into an…