Use it, love it or leave it!
Submitted by admin on March 24, 2010 - 1:01 am
Bonjour!
Sunday was officially the start of spring. We’re nearing April, Easter and the part of the month that’s supposed to leave like a lamb. I’m still waiting for the lion to bring change, uproar and big Kind of the world kind of changes to my life (personally) but I’m rolling with ‘what is’ for the time being.
So part of bringing in the new, is out with the old! We all need some spring cleaning. Clean out the closet, clean out the house, empty out your purse, your wallet and your bathroom drawers. Getting rid of clutter not only makes you feel a lot better and more organized but I truly believe it starts a physical change in your outer life as well (don’t forget to do a little life and mental spring cleaning – today is the last day to purchase my e-book, The Duchess Guide: Thirty Days to a Balanced Reign: www.theduchessequation.com/sales.html)
For more on Spring Cleaning I’m sending you over to the blog of a past guest expert on Duchess and the Your Life Your Style Radio show – Caroline Donahue. I loved this post by Caroline and as a personal business coach and certified time management expert – she should know! Check it out:
http://www.remabulouscoaching.com/trackback.cfm?ID=3214
Spring is the time for new birth, new starts and bright vibrant experiences!
Thirty Days to a Balanced Life
Submitted by admin on March 19, 2010 - 1:01 am
Bonjour!
As many of you who are on my e-newsletter know – the very first Duchess e-book has just been released and is available this month of March only. It’s called – The Duchess Guide: Thirty Days to a Balanced Reign and is a thirty day self-guided course to creating better balance in all areas of your life (health, fitness, mind, body, soul, relationships, money and career). Each day of the book provides excercises, selected readings for inspiration and tools to get you back to balance.
It’s a great book, getting great reviews and you can download it in a matter of minutes and make it yours now!
They say it takes 21 days to create a new habit – that’s why I made the book 30 so you’d have an extra week of solid habit forming time.
Check it out NOW – because it’s only available for one more week and I’m sure you’ll get more than your money’s worth out of it. In fact I’m so sure there’s a 100% guarantee money back pledge if you don’t like it for 90 days. You can come back to it over and over again and I know it will help you. Work through the whole book once and tell me how much you’re loving it via the blog comments or email me: info@theduchessguide.com
Here’s to your well balanced reign!!
Check out the ebook today!
Are you remarkable & fabulous?
Submitted by admin on February 22, 2010 - 1:01 am
Bonjour!
I am very pleased to share with you a guest post today from business coach Caroline Donahue. She came up with the cute word remabulous as a child, combining remarkable and fabulous into the ultimate hybrid!
Caroline is now the founder and owner of Remabulous Coaching, which serves entrepreneurs and business owners through business coaching and training in video marketing. Caroline has over ten years experience working both in the worlds of psychology and the arts. She holds a Master’s Degree in Counseling Psychology and Expressive Arts from the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland. She works in person and through phone sessions, workshops, and teleseminars. When not firing up the creative community, Caroline is an avid reader, novelist, knitter, film fanatic and conscious bookkeeper.
Caroline is also a remabulous writer and a great woman! I think you’ll love and appreciate what she has to say both here in this post, and on her website at: http://www.remabulouscoaching.com/
“Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?”*
I love this line from Mary Oliver’s poem “The Summer Day.” It’s funny, when I work with business owners and entrepreneurs to talk about time management and organization, their thoughts turn immediately to calendars and file folders and school supplies. Don’t get me wrong- I love those things, more than most people. A trip to Staples is a bit like Christmas come early. But that isn’t what time management and productivity is really about.
It’s about your one wild and precious life. We are all given the same amount of time: the golden rule is that there are only 24 hours in a day and only 60 minutes in an hour. That’s it. We all get the same deal. So why is it that some people struggle and never have enough time to do everything they want and love to do, and others seem to blaze ahead getting everything they dream of humming along towards reality?
The difference I see is that they know, without a doubt, the answer to the question above and they stick hard and fast to their answers. When we respect ourselves enough to value our time and our limitations as human beings with only 24 hours in a day, we start to make choices. Some of these are hard. Some of them mean saying no to things that might be fun, or that others may wish we would say yes to. And sometimes it means saying yes to things that make our hearts sing, but make our friends and loved ones wonder about our sanity. This is all good.
When I sit with a client, the first thing I want to know is what they love doing that they currently don’t have time for. “What matters to you that you feel you are missing out on?” I always ask. I have heard many answers: spending time with children or grandchildren, getting to see a movie on a regular basis, getting to read, wanting to travel and see the world. It doesn’t matter what your choice is, it only matters that you give yourself the room to make it.
Once we know this, it becomes much easier to look at all other commitments and see if it’s worth giving up on this dream or this loved activity in order to do something else, something that might be a “should.” As in, “I should be on this committee.” “I should go to this event.” “I should read this book before the one I am excited about.” If you ask yourself if these shoulds are more important than doing what you love with your one wild and precious life, you might surprise yourself with some different answers.
For just this next week, I’d like to issue a challenge to you: watch how you feel when you do everything you do during your day. What do you love about your work? Your time? Your life? And what do you miss and long for that’s missing? Can you make more space for these things by saying no to a few shoulds? Can you make your “Yes!” to those things that make you feel joyful louder than the one that comes out of obligation? Let’s see what beauty can come out of that… I dare you.
Caroline Donahue, founder of Remabulous Coaching - www.remabulouscoaching.com
*To read the full poem click HERE.
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Your Life, Your Style Premieres!
Submitted by admin on September 4, 2009 - 3:52 am
Bonjour!
I had a blast co-hosting the first episode of Your Life, Your Style with Catherine Wednesday night. The integration between the show and i-tunes so you can download it (for free!) to be your very own will be up soon.
In the mean time, you can either visit the show’s website at:
www.blogtalkradio.com/yourlifeyourstyle
to listen to the most recent episode, or I’m going to attempt to put the widget for the most recent show right here on the website so you can just listen through the Duchess Guide.
Also, there have been a lot of questions about getting on the Duchess e-mail newsletter. I send out a weekly newsletter updating you on all things Duchess, inspirational, fun and useful every Friday – so if you’d like to be on the newsletter list (which will also have info and reminders on all upcoming episodes of Your Life, Your Style!) go to my coaching website;
Enter your contact info (email and name only) and then you’ll be on my list for every future e-newsletter.
So excited to share all of these new prospects with you! Here is to your wonderful reign as Duchess of your own kingdom this weekend!
“The point of life, is joy. The meaning of life, is joy. It sounds funny but really, the meaning of life . . if LIFE.” – Abraham, Esther Hicks
Living it up at Mount Vernon.
The Duchess Equation
Submitted by admin on July 4, 2009 - 3:37 am
Bonjour!!
Duchess has a new website for upcoming coaching packages, workshops, e-books and other fabulous things Duchess. . .
Check it out at:
You can also sign up for the Duchess Digest E-zine there to stay up to date on inspiration, upcoming Duchess events and all things balanced and regal.
Sweet.
Long may you reign!!
