The Daily Do

Do You Have Response-Ability? - Day 519

When you seize the freedom of personal 'response-ability' - the ability to choose your response, life turns from burden to adventure. You choose. You can impact any aspect of your life today and blaming others or circumstance just gives this power away. When weary of the heavy load and wishing to be free it’s hard to see that freedom lies in responsibility. But to accept your load, your daily tasks, lightens them in one thought shift; "My life is mine and mine alone, I want to grow, now lift!"

Do You Want To Break Fear's Grip? - Day 518

When old fears try to stop you when you change towards your best, stop for just ten seconds and take one conscious breath. One conscious breath will break the grip of the front line of your fear, and in that moment choose again, now with direction clear. We are the sum of all our parts and our parts are mainly choice, tiny decisions all stacked up flowing from our inner voice. One conscious breath, drawn deeply in, can break old anxious paths. Spot your fear, then take a breath and you are free at last.

Do You Want The Simple Secrets To Wellbeing? - Day 517

We can read thick books on mindfulness and use meditation apps, all helpful and wonderful, but let’s not get too confused about where your wellbeing’s at. If you train the eye to see puffs of beauty in your day and sit in silence, feel your breathing, you are well and on your way. These pillars of contentment will dissolve the weight of daily problems, simple, uncomplicated yet profound in how they solve them.

Do Things Not Seem To Go Your Way? - Day 516

When things don't seem to go our way we often whinge and complain. But notice that when you refocus on what you love in your life you stop complaining and all is well. What you focus on defines your life, in good times and in bad…the amplifying loud speaker of the happy or the sad. It's not easy but it really is up to you...choose bitterness and complain, or see the good around you and lean into happiness again.

Do You Plan Instead Of Starting? - Day 515

“It is not in the pursuit of happiness that we find fulfilment, it is in the happiness of pursuit”, said Denis Waitley. Just today done well manifests your goals over time but fulfilment can come here today in starting, not in being done. When you put down imagined ends, stop thinking what this needs to be, you get loose and more creative, daring, brave and free! It's ok not to have any idea how this thing ends because in truth none of us do...that’s the joy, the unending tale, the song, the life of you. Start!

Do You Live True To Yourself? - Day 514

Think now of something that you’ve done that you know was true to you, opinions could be taken on but did not alter what you’d do. You care far less what others think when you do something you like. Being yourself takes courage and vulnerability to push through, but when proud of what you’re doing, others' thoughts don’t bother you. Others' negative thoughts don’t even register if you’re busy being free, there is no greater confidence than living 'This is me!’

Do You Have Too Much On Your Mind? - Day 513

Do you get overwhelmed by all that's on your mind? Just do today. This is the grounding thought I use when a little blown away. When caught in gusts of overwhelm, or changes are hitting with a jolt, this mantra covers all I need to weather the fear fuelled bolt. Just do today! Yes! When overwhelmed, this is what to say..."I might not scale the mountain, but I can just do today!"

Do You Want The Tools To Your Best Day? - Day 512

Today's episode is a brief recap on a selction of the practices of The Daily Do. Fill your pockets with the tools we’ve learnt so far, so you can use them on your walk to work, on the bus or in the car. A brief reminder of these practices will change your path today, use them when your life or thinking try to get in your way. What we think we become, what we resist persists so use these tools to keep you straight, towards your best today, fulfilled and feeling great.

Do Screens Stop You Living YOUR Dreams? - Day 511

Less screens, more dreams! Now there’s a simple thought…instead of watching others, give yourself all that you’ve got. We want to use our extraordinary technology but we also must be free. Free to do and make and be what we want our selves to be, not zoning out to someone else living out their dream. Ask, "Am I using this device to hear, inspire and create, contact, connect, design, apply and make? Or is it using me, zoning out to someone else living out their dream?"

Do You Want Real Change, Really Quickly? - Day 510

You get all pumped up to change your life and then find you’ve got no place to go; you want real change to be radical, fast and obvious, but it’s gradual, deep and slow. The good news here is that it’s all perception and we can change how we perceive. Believe you’ve done your best today, and rest your head in peace, knowing the long road’s getting shorter to the best of all you’ll be. Patience is the superpower of putting off your need to have returns, delay the gratification of what your efforts in have done.