Start Up Sundays Conversation – Conscious Parenting
How do we parent and raise our children in the best possible way?
Mark and I have two children, Mia is twelve and Jethro is seven. We understand that parenting is one of the most beautiful experiences a human being can have. It can also be one of the most painful and one of the most intense experiences. We believe that we are not only here to Raise our children, our children are also here to ‘Raise’ us. Our children are our greatest teachers.
Be Bold For Change.
Heading off to Melbourne for back to back keynotes on International Women’s Day…wanted to share my thoughts. Be Bold For Change. XP
Happy Lunar New Year Everyone.
As the 2016 Lunar New Year comes to a close, so too do many chapters. I dedicate this post to those who have lost this year. Lost lovers, businesses, friendships, family, possessions, clarity and possibly even themselves. I offer you words of compassion and wanted to share five mantras I use to lifts my spirits in times of heartbreak and despair.
A CHRISTMAS MESSAGE OF LOVE FROM ME
“There is an important distinction between Abundance and Excess.”
…. a Christmas message of Love from Me.
SPECIAL EVENT: ‘CREATING A PURPOSE DRIVEN LIFE – ARE YOU LIVING OR JUST EXISTING?’
SPECIAL EVENT!
For those who have always wanted to hear me speak, but have never had the opportunity…well, here is the opportunity! Thanks to the awesome guys at Specialite Events, this special appearance is open to the public! Titled ‘CREATING A PURPOSE DRIVEN LIFE – ARE YOU LIVING OR JUST EXISTING?’ my one hour keynote will cover a range of topics including, Personal Disruption, Spirituality, Inner Peace, Nutrition, Daily Rituals, BioHacking, Neuroscience, Qantum Physics, Mastering a Life by Design, and of course, Creating a Purpose Driven Life.
BE HAPPY NOW
If you want to be happy later, practice being happy right now.
RESOLUTION, CONTRIBUTION AND PURPOSE
resolution – noun
-a firm decision to do or not to do something
-a formal expression of opinion or intention
-the quality of being determined or resolute
So the new year has officially commenced, and like everyone else, I have set a number of resolutions. The only possible difference is that my resolutions are not set only once at the start of each new year. My resolutions are resolved as soon as possible and then new resolutions are created throughout the entire year. ‘Get shit done’ is a motto I like to live by. There is one resolution however, that I won’t action until the end of the year.
A CHARGED LIFE
This morning I woke up a little melancholy. Perhaps it was the drizzling rain. Perhaps it was the silver grey clouds. Perhaps it is the weight in my heart.
I read some Brendon Burchard before bed last night, and I was grateful that on a daily basis I get to hang out with and truly connect with people who live A Fully Charged Life – A Truly LIVED life. My circle of influence are outrageously self aware and generous souls who vibrate at a frequency that keeps me high and keep me attuned and in tune.
DONNY FINDS HIS FLOW
Over the years I have discovered that there are two types of Mentees. There are those who want to be seen to have a mentor but never take any action because they are either too lazy, or their egos are too big; and there are those who actually execute the teachings and take massive action. It is the action takers who I get obsessed about helping and guiding to reach the next level. A question I am often asked by many of them – ‘How do I find my purpose? How do I know what it is that I am meant to do in this life?’ The first distinction I make is this; we are not born automatically knowing what our life’s purpose is, so relax, chill out, there’s nothing wrong with you. The second distinction – there need not be solely one purpose in life. There can be many.
BIG WORLD
Dinner with my family on the last day of trading of our Crown St restaurant in December last year was one of those rare occasions where my parents, and almost all of my brothers and I, were in the same country (we were without Luke).
Upon leaving the restaurant, a silver haired gentleman chased after me and introduced himself. He had been dining with friends on the table behind us. His name is Louis. He wanted to tell me how much he cherished my book (his words not mine) and how it stirred emotions in him that brought back memories (some good and some not so good) of growing up in old world Vietnam. He had lost loved ones during the war. He fought back tears as he was sharing with me his stories.