Monday 30 April 2012

The Do Something! Tour (c) Newsletter - Introducing the Hagony Aunts!

In the not-too-distant future - in other words as soon as our nail polish is dry - Nicky and I will be putting digit to keyboard and sharing a fictional and humorous look at life's challenges and irritations.

The letters to the Hagony Aunts will be based on fictitious letters from people who don't exist but despite their non-existence still suffer from life's bug-a-boos and chaos.  We will be answering those people who aren't there in an entirely humorous manner whilst dropping a few pearls of real wisdom in amongst the giggles.

Email us at dosomethingtour@gmail.com if you'd like to be inspired by laughter.

The more the merrier!

Deb

Please join me

Hi Dear Readers, whoever you are.

I get a phenomenal amount of people reading my blog but I have no idea who and from where.  Please join up if you have a moment I'd love to know who you are and who I'm reaching.

Deb xx

Self-Improvement Doesn't Always Have to be Serious!

I have an irreverent sense of humour.  I was born in the days when political incorrectness was the norm and no feelings were spared in the quest for a laugh.  Mother-in-laws were fair game, two grown men could make you howl with laughter whilst sharing the same bed - as friends, and Thames Television got away with "Love Thy Neighbour" despite numerous audience complaints.

When you were young at the time I was laughing at life was compulsory and no one took anything more seriously than they absolutely had to.

Fast forward 30 years.  I'm now a Psychic Medium and Inspirational Speaker, Writer and Life Coach, and my raison d'etre is looking after people who aren't happy and working to help them find their inner sparkle again, in a day and age in which we really need all the giggles we can get, but political correctness makes laughing a lot more worrying than it was in simpler, more innocent times.  Even laughing has its issues nowadays!

However, my years Coaching and Reading for people tell me that we do need to lighten up as much as we can.  Whether that's by realising that the really serious issues can't be forgotten so just accept that they sit in your memory and access those memories as infrequently as possible.  Following on logically from that, the less seriously we take everything that doesn't fall into the 'really serious' category the better off we'll be.  We can perhaps do that by accepting that in reality very few things are truly serious - most are just majorly over-thought.

One of the best ways to avoid over-seriousness-ing things is to stop making up stories.  If something is bad then it's inescapably bad.  Yet making up stories of how bad things that are not inescapably bad might get only detracts from sorting those things out.  Creating scenarios in your mind as to what others might do only prevents you from having a conversation with them that might prevent the 'might'.

Staying in a job you hate because you've made up a story that you're in the frying pan and the next step is the fire, or this is the only possible career on the planet you could ever have, or there is simply no other way of making money, or change is impossible for a million reasons,  is just inside the box thinking that has no place in a happy and fulfilled life.

The other thing we all take too seriously nowadays is identifying our issues and recovering from them.  It's one thing to work to identify your truth and once you've found that truth then "Do Something!" about whatever it is that needs doing something about.  It's quite another to spend your life in therapy, lurching from practitioner to practitioner, therapist to therapist, reader to reader and coach to coach, whilst never actually doing something about anything you've identified.  Don't be on a constant quest for the answer - become the answer.

My friend Nicky Marshall and I are shortly to launch a positive and inspirational newsletter based on fictitious life problems worded in deliberately amusing terms and answered with a fair dollop of good, old-fashioned, off the wall humour.  There will be nuggets of pure inspiration and useful advice carefully sprinkled amongst the silliness, but given a choice as to whether to impress you with our worthiness and knowledge or make you laugh out loud whilst we're trying to help you - we'll go for the giggles every time.

Besides, more often than not a joke will stick in the memory far longer than a few well chosen words of advice.

Off to create a touch of mischief.

Deb

Sunday 29 April 2012

Good Grief! Has it Been THAT Long?

Well one and all, don't I feel silly that I haven't blogged since the beginning of February, but it's been one of those times.

You know the kind of time, 10 weeks of your life have flashed past and if you're honest there's very little to show for it.  I have done a course for my lovely Swedish students and now friends, which included a private trip to Stonehenge where they got to walk amongst the stones; don't teach about earth energy introduce them to it!  That's my motto.

Yet I can't honestly find another reason for such a prolonged silence or neglect of my work.  It seems to me that lack of motivation is one of the quickest ways to have your life rocket forwards leaving you behind wondering what to do...and it has to stop.  How though?

Discipline of course!

It's no good my sitting here pretending that I want things to happen, I need to make them happen.  I need to knock on doors, make telephone calls, talk to people, make plans, and basically CREATE something!  After all, before one can "Do Something!" (c) one has to create the energy that generates the energy to get things done.

So, today I've blogged, set up a mailing list, written out a nice new but easy to cook healthy recipe, and had a wonderful lunch with two friends of - we now realise - of nearly 10 years.  Yesterday I tidied my desk and threw stacks of paper that I'd kept I know not why into the recycling.  Tonight I'm joining some great mates and the lovely Nicky Marshall on the UKPN radio show...so much better than sitting heap-like in front of the TV.

Not a motivational blog at all, just a sharing of the kind of things that drive us all crazy from time to time.

Happy creating and doing

Deb xx

P.S.  I can copyright "Do Something!" because it's the name of our Tour!  LOL