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Do What You Love Interview – Jo De Rosa
Jo De Rosa knows a thing or two about helping people transform their lives and manifest their dreams. She has first hand experience having moved from an abusive relationship, boring jobs, bankruptcy and countless destructive addictions, to discover a whole new life doing what she loves. A yoga and meditation teacher for over 20 years, Jo now runs her own holistic retreat centre from her home – a stunning 16th Century Grade Two listed Tudor house in the beautiful idyllic village of Lavenham, Suffolk. She loves what she does and is incredibly passionate about her work. She says: “I wake up in the morning and know I am going to help people on their personal journey towards a healthier, happier life. And when I go to bed, I do so in the knowledge that I’ve absolutely done the best I can do to help them reach their full potential.”
Introducing The (free) DWYL Guide to Blogging
Blogging is a fantastic way to publish yourself – to share what you want to say or show, and to establish yourself as an expert on a particular topic. Just the very act of blogging can be a vital part of doing what you love, as it takes research, contemplation and creativity all focused on something you are interested in. Many bloggers have gone on to make a career from what they have blogged about. It is also a great way to connect with like-minded people and share your gifts with the world.
If you want to have any kind of online business, your blog and social media following will be crucial to your success. Even if you aren’t quite ready to launch that business, it is worth getting going with blogging to establish yourself in your chosen area, and get into the swing of regularly thinking about what you are planning to do.
Our free guide to blogging can help you do this. It answers the following burning questions that we are frequently asked:
- How do you actually start
- How do you make it look lovely?
- What do you write about?
- What about images?
- How do you choose your colours?
- How do you get more people to read my blog?
- What other resources are available to help grow my blog?
It also includes a sample monthly editorial calendar and a special ‘Blog development strategy’ worksheet to help you plan.
CLICK HERE to download your free copy.
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Why teaching (and art) are actually about sharing what YOU need to hear
Last week I had the pleasure of interviewing the lovely Jessica Swift for one of our upcoming design courses, and among the many fascinating things she talked about, one thing really stuck with me. I asked her where her paintings and designs – particularly those that feature words – come from, and she said “Actually, they tend to reflect things that I need to hear at that time. And because they come from a very true place, they seem to connect strongly with other people who also need to hear those things.”
This made me think a lot about the things we share, do, guide and teach here at Do What You Love. Our upcoming flagship course ‘Do What You Love’ is based on many years of pushing boundaries, taking risks, challenging norms and creating a mindset of possibility, combined with making conscious choices and taking action. That really comes from a place of experience, having made lots of mistakes and unexpected turns along the way. But even with something which is at the very heart of who I am, what I believe and how I live my life, every single time we run the course, something in it reminds me of something I need to hear at that very moment.
What’s going to make 2015 amazing for you?
Do What You Love Interview – Oliver Burkeman
Author and journalist Oliver Burkeman wants us all to be happier. Or at least less unhappy. Or perhaps just happy-ish if that’s more realistic. Each week in the column he writes for The Guardian, This Column Will Change Your Life, Oliver explores ideas around social psychology, self-help culture, productivity and the science of happiness.
For his latest book, The Antidote: Happiness for People Who Can’t Stand Positive Thinking, he spoke with psychologists, Buddhists, New Age Dreamers, hard-headed business consultants and other experts to figure out what does work when it comes to being happy. He discovered that what they all have in common is a hunch about human psychology: that in our personal lives and the world at large, it’s our constant efforts to eliminate the negative – that cause us to feel anxious, insecure and unhappy. And that there is an alternative “negative path” to happiness and success that involves embracing the things we spend our lives trying to avoid.
So, with a fresh new year ahead of us, and our minds open to new ways of thinking, we caught up with Oliver to see what advice he could offer to help us be happier in 2015.
Meet our experts…
A few months ago we mentioned that we’d be bringing some new guest bloggers on board to share new and interesting perspectives on the subject of Doing What You Love… and here they are!
New Year, Braver You. Begin today.
I’m going to let you into a secret. I’m afraid every single day. I’m afraid something is going to happen to someone I love. I’m afraid I’ll make some big mistake with the technology we use in our business. I’m afraid I’ll say something stupid, or forget something important (can I still claim baby brain after a year?)
Sometimes I’m afraid I’m not making the most of every single second of my precious life.
But – and this is a big ‘but’ – that doesn’t mean I’m not brave. I see those things I am afraid of as indicators of what is important to me. They are like flags, pointing out what I care about – people, professionalism in my business, good communication, making the most of life.
Instead of being paralysed by that fear, I use it as fuel to drive me forward – to learn more, make better choices, grow my team with specialists who know more than me, use my time more wisely, both day-to-day and across the years.
Sometimes I use it to dare myself, to just start that conversion, make that call, try that thing out.
And you can do the same, starting today.
New Year, Richer You. Begin today.
A lot of people tell us that they want to do what they love, but they can’t because of a lack of money. But when we dig down into it, money is rarely the problem. The issue is usually (1) a perception of how much it takes (too much) or how much they have (not enough), or (2) a fear of not knowing their financial reality if they take a leap from something they know, to something new.
The fact is, security as we know it has all but evaporated in the past few years. Jobs for life don’t exist any more. People are being made redundant left, right and centre from ‘professional careers’. Pension pots are shrinking, and the future is more uncertain than ever.
What if it was actually more secure to do your own thing? To take control of your time, of the way you earn money, of the people you spend time with, in where you live, and how you work?
New Year, New You. Begin today.
‘New year, new you’ must be the most over-used phrase in the world of magazine headlines, but there is a very good reason for that. The beginning of a new year can be a watershed. ‘Next year’ becomes ‘this year’. The time is now. If you had a bad year, that is now in the past. If you had a great year, you can step it up a level and make this one even better.
A new year is like a gift. It’s a chance to start again, and to tell yourself you have the power to decide how this year pans out. What will you do? Where will you go? Who will you spend time with? Who will you avoid? How will you behave differently so things work out differently? What different choices will you make? What will you tell yourself about what could be possible for you? And what steps will you take to make that happen?