Uncovering Unconscious Competence and Living Intentionally: A Dialogue with Good Life Coach Donna Martin
Download MP3Speaker 1: What is your vision
for your life? What are your
values? What is your mission?
Why are you here?
Speaker 2: Welcome to the
Tomorrow Is Not Today podcast.
You've already started to create
the life you want just by being
here Design for you as a
business professional so you can
be physically, mentally and
emotionally healthy, more
productive, less stressed and
living a life you truly love. My
name is Kingsley and thank you
for coming on another journey
with one of our uniquely
qualified professionals, donna
Martin. Thank you for joining us
on the Tomorrow Is Not Today
podcast. It's an absolute
pleasure to have you with us
today.
Speaker 1: Oh, you're so welcome
. Thanks, emily, for having me
on Kingsley. It's an absolute
pleasure.
Speaker 2: Maybe some of you are
people. You know you better. I
think I've got the accent, but
from here besides, you're living
in Australia now.
Speaker 1: Yeah, get what the
lingo.
Speaker 2: Exactly so. First
question I want to ask you. We
always jump straight into the
big question. So, donna Martin,
the Good Life coach, tell me
what is a good life?
Speaker 1: So it's a good life
for me, kingsley, the good life
for my clients, a good life that
I envision For me. It's living
your life your way, in your own
terms, it's me living my life
with my husband and kids, but
it's coming back to me. It's
living how I want to live it, in
financial freedom and time
freedom, in that alignment
freedom for me, for my energy
and then for those around me. So
that's what it is and, as the
Good Life coach and the Good
Life approach that incorporates
your vision, your values, your
mission and your goal. It's that
simple.
Speaker 2: That sounds awesome.
So basically, from that, you're
telling me, if we do what you
say today, we'll have time,
we'll have money, we'll have
love, we'll have relationships
and we can do what we like.
Speaker 1: Exactly, it's that
simple, really that simple, but
people overcomplicate it. We
hijack ourselves, sabotage
ourselves and we hijack our
lives.
Speaker 2: Okay, awesome. I
can't wait to dive in a little
bit more. So tell me initially.
So who do you actually work with
? Is it mainly men, women,
professionals, everyday people,
anybody?
Speaker 1: So for me it's really
now, because I've worked with a
lot of different people over my
years and I've attracted mainly
business owners, and for me I
wasn't a business owner to begin
with, I was a nurse and so where
I really understood my niche was
was with other people that were
putting their foot out there,
that were putting themselves
forward and that just tended to
be business owners and leaders,
kingsley in any form and what
they were doing. Because the
leaders tended to have the
qualities of not being afraid to
move forward. They were aware
the personal development was a
catalyst, if you like. That took
them there. They were out in the
box thinkers, and so the main
people that I work now is really
aligning leaders what their good
life, and that's through through
the phenomenal approach of the
good life approach.
Speaker 2: Okay, so, based on
what you said, leaders, business
leaders, those type of people
who you're attracting they're
coming to you because they
actually want to grow, they want
to become better people. Is that
right?
Speaker 1: So for some of them
they've already grew. So maybe
unconsciously, they have just
got to their goal. They've got
to a certain place that they're
always envisaged. So they're
what we will call, maybe an
unconscious competent, where
they weren't aware that their
rest and state, their standard
for actually going for a goal or
going for something to create it
, came easy to them, unknowns to
them, for whatever reason and
this happens for a lot of people
, kingsley, but for the majority
of people it doesn't.
So often you'll find even people
in these elements that do
succeed. They'll find that when
they get to the end, when they
climb to the peak of that
mountain or kind of going okay,
I thought I would feel a certain
way. I thought I would, that the
fanfare would be off and that
something would happen. And then
the reality hits in, and this
reality is for everybody.
Whether you achieve a goal or
whether you don't, whether
you're just feeling stuck and
frustrated, the reality soon
kicks in that you're going I got
what I thought was going to make
me happy. And then you go to
another layer, like an onion,
where you begin understanding
that everything is coming from
your internal, coming from
within, and this is where I come
in. It's about that internal
transformational work, and this
is this is where leaders are
most open, I find.
Speaker 2: So what is it that? I
guess, when people get to this
point, they achieve this goal,
get where they wanted to go, but
it's not what they thought it
was. Why isn't it what they
thought it was when they're
actually reaching and trying to
achieve this?
Speaker 1: Well, so for me it
comes down to four key elements,
and this is exactly what the
good life approaches is about.
This is why I created it,
because I had achieved so much
success in different areas of my
life as a nurse and my skill set
in my home life a beautiful home
, financially set, all good
things and then, internally,
things showed up in my life and
I went again to crash and burn.
And it's when you have to pay
back the things that keep
showing up for you, kingsley,
because I'm a mommy, I have
three boys and for me there was
things that were mirroring in my
life that I really did not like,
but they had been mirroring for
me over multiple years and I had
been doing small bits of work on
me, or I was ignoring these
elements and shoving them down,
just thinking they'll pass. This
next thing when I do this house,
it's going to make me happy when
I earn this title. It's going to
make me happy when I do. And
then you still come back to you
to.
I always talk about your
internal image because we have
to. And it's when people go in
the dead of the night back to
themselves, kingsley, after
they've achieved whatever
they've been asking for can you
go and stand in the mirror bare,
naked, raw, and just look at
yourself, look into your soul,
look into your eyes and actually
ask yourself do I love myself,
do I appreciate myself? But then
ask yourself, what is my vision
for me, for my future? For if
you're the ripple effect, this
is why I find it's so powerful
work of leaders, because leaders
are there to lead and they have
a phenomenal source as a ripple
effect, as a positive impact
down to others, whether it's the
team at the lead, whether it's
the families, whether it's the
community, they are the
gatekeepers for that expanse for
so many others. So, by helping
leaders transform what is your
vision for why you want to lead
where you want to go your life,
what is your values? How does
your professional values, your
business values, your team
values, align with your home,
your personal values, because
most people tick one over the
other and then find that they're
lacking. But these have to
always go and flow. They have to
intertwine.
Look at your mission. Why are
you here? What's your purpose?
Why do you get up in the morning
? Why are you doing what you're
doing? Is it just for a pay
check? Is it to make all our
lives better? Is it to give
somebody a good product that's
going to make their life easier?
And what are your goals? Have
you reached them and yourself
dissatisfied? So this is what I
find and I have found personally
, kingsley is what's
transforming people's lives, not
just in one element, but adding
all these four in. And that is
why the good life approach is
born, because it's just so
powerful. Does that make sense?
Speaker 2: 100%, and it's like
that wasn't just here's an
answer. There was so much depth
into what you just said there,
like that is a massive, massive
amount of things and it could
easily be. You could listen to
that and go, wow, that's a
little bit overwhelming. How do
I know? How do I put this
together? I'm not sure where I
feel with all of this about my
work, my product, my family, my
everything else. I'm not sure
where it fits. So how do you
break it down? So that, because
there are some people who are
incredibly successful in some
areas, but not necessarily
others as well. So how do you
break that down and make sure
that, as you said, you can stand
in front of that mirror and look
yourself dead in the eyes and
ask yourself those questions and
be happy with the answers you
give yourself?
Speaker 1: So you can break it
down into so many ways, kingsley
, and I talk about the seven
levels of awareness. We are all
exactly where we're meant to be
in this moment in time. So,
whether you're watching this
podcast now, whether you're
watching it weeks or months down
the line, it doesn't matter
exactly where you're meant to be
in this moment in time and space
, that you're watching this in
your level of awareness. You've
needed to hear something tick
and nugget of information. Maybe
it has reached out to me, maybe
it has reached out to you, maybe
it's to go and Google something,
look up something, and for me,
with the Good Life approach,
it's understanding and being
able to offer people at those
different stages different
levels of coaching. So my main
coaching program will be a six
months transformational program,
kingsley, and that's for those
that are ready, really set.
They've done some personal
development, some self-help,
some self-help watching all the
freebies, or where they've done
some paid programs and they
understand the benefit, but
they're like, yeah, okay, it's
not a quick fix and they're
ready to go deeper.
Or I created a four-week program
which is starting now, next week
or next month sorry, in the 16th
of November and that's four
weeks from burnout to brilliance
and that's aligning leaders to
these.
So that's taking that concept
and breaking it in the four
weeks looking, making it
bite-sized chunks. I also do
one-to-one alignment sessions,
so that's for people that are
just kind of going. I have zero
interest, I don't even know what
a goal is, I have no mission, I
just want to feel better, I just
want to be okay in my day, and
that's where I help them day on
load. They let go of that
limiting beliefs, those baggage,
that negative attachments, and
then empower them through a
visionary process, cause you
know yourself, we think in
pictures. So it's about baby
steps for each person to
actually let them connect. Or
you can just jump on a call and
have a conversation because they
don't know about you, kings and
the Clients. But sometimes
people will talk to me and the
reason they came for it is not
the reason they're there at all,
and that's then, as a coach, as
a mentor, how our skillset and
our intuition, how what makes us
unique, they connected that.
Speaker 2: Now that happens very
often. Actually, I've noticed
very, very common People are
thinking of going for one thing,
but it's actually a completely
different thing altogether when
they get there and they start
asking themselves those
questions. So you mentioned,
about several different, I guess
, aspects that you run through
with your program Can you
outline just basically, because
obviously this is, these are
different things that every one
of us needs to apply to our own
life in some degree. So what is
a just general overview of what
those seven aspects are?
Speaker 1: Well, the seven
levels of awareness, these
aren't the big six month program
, but it's something that I
introduce people to. It's a free
thing, words, just asking
yourself so are you constantly
in that fight or flight? Are you
constantly in that, ah, reacting
to everything, to everyone, to
the physical world, to the red
light, to stubbing your toe, to
spilling your coffee, to someone
not sent in an email or not
doing a job? Is your world
constantly, your internal being,
constantly in that, where your
heart's racing? It's that
anxiety and you're just fueling
yourself. You're not eating
right, you're not sleeping right
, all of that. Or the next level
is the mass consciousness. Are
you just going about your day?
Get up, do what you do, eat the
exact same thing, drink the same
thing, take the same action,
drive the same route, do the
same thing, say the same thing
verbally to your colleagues when
you get in or turn on your
computer or your phone. It's
about never questioning, never
stepping out of your comfort
zone and there's no judgment
here, kingsley, it just is what
it is.
Speaker 2: So I always no
intentionality, which is how
most of us tend to live.
Speaker 1: Yes. So this is just
your automatic programming, and
so I find this really beneficial
for people to just start without
judgment, ask in themselves.
Okay, ask a better question.
Where am I at? Do I not question
anything? Am I in my comfort
zone? Am I just cruising along
on my day, but yet I feel
dissatisfied.
Or are you at the aspiration
phase? Are you at that phase of
wanting to discover who you
truly are, of wanting to
discover more about you, how you
operate? And this is where
you're tuning into your heart,
you're tuning into your energy,
you're going I know that there's
something more or where
synchronicity is coming, or what
we call coincidences, and you've
been inaligned with something
and it's flowed and everything's
coming in. You're like, oh my
God, I can stay in this flow
state way longer. How do I do
this?
So there's loads of different
levels and it takes you right up
to a place where your achieving
goals, you have, if you imagine,
an onion. You have pilled those
layers back, but when you get to
certain standard, kingsley, so
for me, our transition into
Australia was a form of mastery
for me in this big goal achieved
, which for me, just meant that
my standard of being internally,
my set point of me, my belief in
me, haven't achieved this,
brought it into fruition. This
was my new rest and step, my new
energy. So it doesn't mean that
you just hang up your boots and
you're done. You're like, yeah,
forget about it. This means that
you're ready to go again, but
your new state, your new rest
and state, your new level of
awareness, has completely
changed.
Speaker 2: You've more belief in
yourself, because you've pushed
yourself to a certain point,
you've got out of your comfort
zone. You've pushed yourself,
you've gone for something, and
now that's made you a bigger
person as a whole. And so now
other things that may have
previously been impossible and
now become possible to actually
achieve or to do or to become.
Speaker 1: A hundred thousand
percent. Like I look back,
kingsley, three years ago, I
look back to because you can
only join the dots looking back.
So, when you look back at
different stages in your life
where you were afraid to do
something, where you were afraid
to go for the job interview,
where you were, I didn't think I
was worthy to do a nursing
degree. At one point in my life,
at one point in my life I didn't
think I was worthy to buy a
laptop to do study.
Now, this is the crazy concepts
that we hold in our mind of
limiting behaviors, of lacking
confidence, of not feeling
worthy or enough. But if you
imagine, we are all on this
dimmer switch and every time you
climb that ladder of self-belief
, self-awareness, every time you
step out of your comfort zone,
every time you listen and align
to your heart, to your truth,
you brighten your light. And the
thing is, kingsley, when you
allow your light to shine, you
give permission for others to do
the same, because you become
that ripple effect and you
radiate out to everybody else
and, before you know it, people
are gathering to you in a sense
of what have you done? How can I
do that? It's almost like some
people are there waiting for
permission, isn't it to shine?
Speaker 2: They're waiting for
somebody else to go. They've
done it. I can do this. I can be
that person. I can step out of
where I am now and I can start
to shine.
Speaker 1: I was that person
when I met my mentor no, I was
the one waiting for permission
to shine until I met my mentor
and she told me don't borrow my
belief until you have your own.
Borrow mine, because I believe
in you. I see the qualities in
you that you cannot yet see in
yourself, and this is part of
the process, and this is why I
love doing what I do, kingsley,
because it's that process. And
then you get to her and you're
like oh my God, what was that
all about?
Speaker 2: So let me take you
back there for a sec. So you
needed someone to come alongside
of you and help you shine, pull
out what was inside of you.
Basically, it was already there.
How how hard was it to do that?
Like, did you have an internal
fight with yourself about, yes,
I can, no, I can't, I'm going to
push, no, I'm going to pull back
? What was that like?
Speaker 1: It wasn't a quick fix
pill. There's no such thing for
me. So the program that I now
facilitate is called thinking
under results, and that is the
exact program that I went
through with my mentor Now my
mentor. When I met her, I knew
in an instant there was no going
back and forth. I didn't have
the money, I hadn't the clue
where it would come from. All I
knew was it's something in my
heart ignited and what they were
saying rang true to my soul. I
didn't believe in myself. I
couldn't see the person that
they were telling me I was. I
could see some qualities, but
it's to give this veil over
yourself and you're not really
supported or allowed to shine.
But it's really ourselves. Our
internal program and our
experiences are life things, but
when you understand, so it's
ourselves.
Speaker 2: Yeah, if someone's
asked to hold their selves back,
is that right?
Speaker 1: 100,000,. We are the
boss of us.
Speaker 2: What is it that makes
us hold ourselves back?
Speaker 1: It's what we call our
part time, and your part time is
simply, if you imagine a
rucksack in your back of all
these different beliefs that you
have and the best exercise I
always give people to do,
kingsley, the easiest way I can
tell people to do this or get
them to do this and experience
it for themselves, is get a
blank page, draw a line in the
middle. What things, what
qualities, what attributes have
you got that you absolutely love
? What things then, on the other
side, would you like to improve?
How would they benefit your life
if you improved?
A lot of people say I'm a
procrastinator, I suffer from
imposter syndrome, I'm not good
enough, I don't have enough
confidence, I'm not a great
communicator, but when you
understand that you can
transform this. That it's us. We
control our thoughts. We have an
intellect. We operate on three
different levels. We have this
intellect, this mind, this brain
, this thing that gives us a
focus where we can say, yes, I
accept this thought that has
come in, or I reject it. And
then we have the choice then to
accept whether or not we accept
the feeling that it's just
latched on because it's part of
an old program, but we carry
these beliefs on our backings
like, and it's about unloading
them one or two at a time, and
this is where constant space
repetition is key to
transforming.
This is my belief. This is how I
learned. This is what I see in
my own life. This is how things
translate. I've been through
three huge emotional impacts in
my own life and they catapulted
me. But it was only the third
one, when I was 40 Kingsley,
because it was not just me, but
it was me, my husband and our
three boys. So that catalyst,
that connection was with my kids
and go on hell. No, it's no time
to stop mess and stop fluent,
stop tiptoeing about. It's time
to go full and so somebody's
listening to this right now.
Speaker 2: They're feeling that
way. They're feeling what you've
gone through, what you've done
and, like you said, unlocking,
unpacking the rocks out of that
backpack so that you can move
forward. How does someone
actually do that? Practically
Take us down to to rare raw. How
do we actually do that?
Speaker 1: So, first of all,
it's about understanding that we
are more than just a bag of
bones. I like and I'll stay a
walk and talk and bag of bones
and we are walking, talking bag
of bones that is magnetized, so
we're like a big magnetized
skeleton and we're just walking
about. This is what gives us the
functionality to take action. We
also have the intellect, which
we talked about. So we have the
choice, the power of choice. I
didn't know this, I didn't know
it until my second big emotional
impact. So we have the power of
choice, we have the power to
actually control, but we also
operate from a spiritual side,
this spiritual being within us.
So all the different thought
processes that you're hearing or
that you're feeling within you.
It's about taking you back to
the core foundations, kingsley,
and actually assessing, looking
from a neutral point of view,
where am I at? What are the
things that are working for me?
Because even just going back to
the basics, kingsley, you can't
just dump a whole load of stuff
on the table and say, okay, this
is because you're going to get
overwhelmed and you're going to
turn on your heels and that
start before you even begin. So
it's a process and what I take
people through is a foundational
process.
You first need to understand
what a goal is, and what I mean
by that is a goal is to grow. To
grow you, in your awareness, in
your confidence, in your belief
in you. Because how can you
expect to have the courage, have
the resiliency, bring that
strength, unpack all the stuff
that you've been busy over your
lifetime stuff and down so hard?
How can you expect to unveil or
brighten these qualities when
you have no concept about where
you are at this moment in time?
So it's about sitting down and
breaking everything back to okay
, where are you at in your life,
in your reality? What's showing
up for you, what is the most
prominent thing that's showing
up that you feel is constantly
in your radar, that if it was
fixed, if it was worked on, it
would make things a whole lot
better.
Because when you look at that,
kingsley, usually you will have
a list of a lot of things, but
you have the one thing that's
going to have that impact and
then you can go and do the
different behaviors under the
different programs. You go in
there understanding about your
intellect, about your spiritual
side, about the power of our
vibration, about everything
coming from us. We talk about
the stick person. We break down
your conscious mind, your
unconscious, but these are all
different layers that are added
over constant spaced repetition
so that you have that awareness,
you have that support and
accountability to take those
first steps. Does that make
sense to actually bring you to
the next level? And that's
important? Can you just make a
leap?
Speaker 2: It sounds like that
even though there's three
different elements obviously
your physical bag of bones, as
you like to say, then you've got
the mental or the intellectual
side, and then you've got the
spiritual side but the way
you're describing it is, even
though they're separate, they're
all totally entwined and work
together and you need each of
the others to actually be able
to get the others to work
properly as well. So they have
to be functioning properly
together. Is that right?
Speaker 1: Well, the question I
would put you is would you, if
you'd never taken any driving
lessons, jump on their car
probably more a manual car, but
would you jump in and feel
confident and drive down a
motorway or take a two-hour trip
down south? Yeah, absolutely
would not, because you wouldn't
have a clue within the car, you
wouldn't have the lights, you
wouldn't have the gear stick to
know your gears to work, your
engine, your engine and your
gear stick in your clutch would
probably be blowing out by
getting down the street. But we
are not taught as a society in
this physical world. We are not
taught in primary school and
secondary school how we actually
operate. That manifestation is
simply to make real. But there
are universal laws that have
been people have been aware of
for hundreds of years.
Kingsley, if you ask the
majority of successful people,
they are all aware of themselves
, of their internal being.
They know who they are in truth.
They don't understand that they
are connected to something
bigger than just this physical
body and they know how to tune
in. And this is where we get the
inspired ideas, this is where we
get our intuitive hits, this is
where we can get into that flow
state where we then take the
physical bag of bone action. And
then it's not about being lucky,
it's not about being in the
right place at the right time.
It is about being aligned with
your vision, your values, your
mission and your goal so that
when you get these intuitive
hits, you know exactly who you
need to contact Intuitively, you
know what email, what phone call
you need to make, what chat show
, what podcast, whatever you
need to do, what program you
need to do next, because I still
have a coach to this day a
mindset coach, kingsley, and a
business coach, because business
isn't my expertise, so go to
people in the know. This is the
best way to explain it all.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, it's huge
and it's like when you were
explaining it before it's very,
very big but at the same time
it's not. It's quite simple at
the same time and it does all
work together. But it's a matter
of knowing how to take the steps
, I guess, and being able to
move through from one stage to
the next and understand. I guess
, because sometimes we do get
those intuitive things and we're
not sure what to do with that,
because very often in our
Western culture it's like no,
where's the figures? Point this
out. I need to see exactly how
it's going to work and what's
going to happen before we do
anything. But yet I know all of
the people that I look to and
listen to, all the very
successful people. Every one of
them is like that's great.
But this is, I often work out of
my gut, because I just know what
to do and when I don't do it, it
doesn't work so well, and that's
quite often. They say that
Obviously you don't throw away
the figures and the intellect,
because obviously that's
incredibly important. That's an
essential side, but we don't
want to totally dismiss the
spiritual side either, or the
guts. I guess, when you've got
that intuition or whatever it is
, like you said, of knowing who
I need to talk to or the phone
call I need to make, or whatever
it is as well. So how do you
know? Because sometimes we think
about things and sometimes it's
and we don't know. Look, is that
? Should I just do that, or is
that just something I thought of
? Maybe I'll put off and do
something down the track? How do
you know what's the best way to
go with that? Because sometimes
if you do some things out of the
intuition, it can end up pretty
disastrous. So how do we bring
those into alignment?
Speaker 1: So as we go into the
gem of working a muscle, you are
working your mindset muscle,
because mind is in every single
cell of our body. It's not a
singular thing, it's not a
one-point thing. We are all in
this physical body made of
energy. So if you went under a
curtain photography machine, you
would light up like a Christmas
tree for those that enjoy fax
figure science based and all
science and all theology,
Kingsley, over hundreds of years
, only ever agreed on one point,
and that is that we become what
we think about. So if you think
of your intuition, we all have
it. It's just a muscle and it's
about building that muscle. So
when you're intuitively doing
things and they haven't gone how
you expected, look at it. Is it
a lesson or is it a blessing?
What did I learn from this? That
another opportunity is presented
and I've learned from this
experience. But if I hadn't had
this experience? Because our
logic, our educated, our left
brain mind, which I very much
was is always trying to figure
out the how.
But in the spiritual side, it is
not about figuring out the how,
it is about letting go and
tuning in and understand that,
whether your point of reference
is the universe, God, source,
infinite intelligence or whether
you've no affinity. Know that we
are all connected to something
bigger than us in this physical
thing and that when you know
something in your heart, when
you know something and you know
that you know, but everything's
screaming on paper or other
people are sending, that's not
the way, that's not the right
thing. But something in you,
your best self, is telling you
sit up, pay attention, trust
yourself, and it's only be
taking the action Kingsley, and
actually stepping forward under
this, trusting yourself. And
remember, feeling is not a
failure, Feeling is, it is
bringing yourself forward.
People feel all the time.
I feel all the time and for me
that's a win Because it's not a
failure that's defined by
society. Feeling for me is part
of the passage it's right of
passage to to that success, to
that achievement, because it's a
step in stones that brings you
to where you want to go, and
it's the universe paving that
path. But it's up to us. We
can't just sit back and go okay,
give me what I want or create a
goal and then go and give it to
me and I'm going to start here
with my arms folded. You have to
intuitive hit to get absolutely.
Speaker 2: Absolutely. And I
know, and I was just listening
to the other day, the lady who I
cannot remember her name right
now who started Spanx.
Speaker 1: I do yeah. Okay thank
you, thank you.
Speaker 2: No, I know you soon
as we heard it. But when she was
growing up, her dad would sit
them at the at the dinner table
having dinner and he would say
to the kids, her and her
brothers, she say you say, what
did you fail at today? And Every
single day they had to have
something that they tried and
failed at to bring to him. And
she said that just put a whole
new light on failure, because it
didn't just make Allowance for
it pushed us to where we wanted
to do something, where we knew
we would fail, and we had to
keep pushing. And then, when it
came to creating Spanx like her
story is phenomenal about how
she did it.
Sarah Blakely, that's her, yeah,
and how she actually had to put
through, push through really
hard and so much Opposition to
get there and, like you were
saying, people were telling her
not to but she's like, no, I
know this can work. And she
found one guy who would actually
make the first lot of Spanx for
her. She said they're a
nightmare, but they worked and
people wanted them. But there
was only one person she could
find would actually work with
her to create this thing and he
was, I think, a few hours drive
away. So she had to drive, take
the materials, get him to do
them and then pick them up and
bring them back again. And
that's how it all started. But
it took a long, long time for
that to happen.
But that was her thing, which
she's like I know this is going
to work. I know it's going to
work and that and what you were
talking about being afraid of
failure, with her dad sitting
them down as kids at the dinner
table and saying, what did you
fail at today? Because he wasn't
interested in what they were
successful. Well, he was
interested in what they were
successful at, but he wanted to
know had they tried something
new, had they pushed themselves
to a point of failure. Uh, and
that totally changed her
perspective on everything and
allowed her then to go down that
track, down that path to create
this incredible brand. Now that
was worth, you know, I don't
know how many billion now, but a
lot of dollar that you square it
was just phenomenal.
And I think that's an example of
a story, of what you're talking
about With everything but she
would have had a powerful vision
.
Speaker 1: So any times that,
through all those knockbacks,
through all the people town her
know, through all that process,
she has held her vision. She has
gone under her mind where nobody
else can go. She's had that
strength, had that persistence,
built that resiliency, built all
those muscles to strengthen her
armor, so that her core, her
being, her trust in herself, her
faith, knowing it was going to
bring her everything she desired
, kept her going in the darkest
of times. And that's for each of
us, kingsley. It's not always an
easy ride and you don't just
come and the ease and flow all
of a sudden and it's a magical
pill and you'll never go.
Life happens For everybody. So
it's about utilizing your wisdom
and learning what is my vision
here, not not your neighbors,
not your partners, not even your
kids. What is my vision, what is
my heart calling me to do? What
is it that I am here to to do?
To bring to life? And when you
focus on that, no matter what
comes your way, you learn the
ability to go back and hold that
vision until it comes in the
form. And then you just go again
and again, and again.
But the never-ending this
journey's not one and done for
all.
Speaker 2: Absolutely.
So, it's never ending and that's
what tomorrow is not. Today is
all about actually knowing that
stuff's going to happen. And you
got to be prepared and knowing
that you know that's just today,
it's not tomorrow, and then
tomorrow is going to be
fantastic, but you got to know
that as well, afterwards it's
going to be something else
that's going to come and hit us
and but am I in a good position
of? I put myself in a good,
strong position mentally,
physically, emotionally,
spiritually, all of these ways,
so that when it does happen, you
know what I know. It's just a
lesson, it's just something I
can learn from that happens and
I can still push through and
make stuff happen as well. So
you did. Thank you for
summarizing tomorrow is not the
day. You did a great job.
Speaker 1: I'm an allatement,
that's why I'm on here. Can't
see that. Definitely connected.
It's the staff power, yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's exciting.
Um, we just about. Unfortunately
, time is just about up, so that
went like ridiculously fast.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and.
Speaker 2: I hope people will go
back and listen to this again,
because you put so many gold
nuggets in here for people to
pick up, so many different
things that to, like I said,
take time, build the muscle,
take time, use it, build the
muscle and learn and grow With
it as we go. But I've got a
couple of things before we
before I get under the last
couple of questions. Number one
how can people find you, connect
with you, follow you, etc. Etc.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so at the
moment, Kingsley, I'm working on
a few different things that
there was a new website and that
. So At the moment, you can find
me on linkedin, instagram or my
tm in places at the moment, and
then you can find me on facebook
as well. So, yeah, that's my
main leads at the moment.
Speaker 2: And how do we go look
for the good life coach? Do we
look for donna?
Speaker 1: Yeah, that would be
good. Sorry, just simply click
in donna martin, the good life
coach, and you will find me on
linkedin. And if you like
connecting in person, having a
conversation, having a chat, or
you want to know more about how
I share in the process of
business mindset and being your
authentic self, I co-host a
weekly audio event on exactly
that top of Kingsley every
Thursday morning. It's 6 am,
perth, western Australian time,
and it's called being your
authentic self in business,
where we talk about business,
business help, marketing, all
things mindset and how you can
bring it back and alignment with
you to be your authentic self.
So I've it's been running over a
year now and it's really
powerful, yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, awesome. No,
that's fantastic. Now, last
couple of questions. Yeah, and
you, you went over before
talking about what you do is
what we call here create the
life you want, and that's
exactly what you've described.
What you do, which is alignment
again, which is fantastic. But
two questions before we before
we go. Number one we talk about
the ultimate tomorrow here,
because that's what we're all
about creating. So what is the
ultimate tomorrow?
Speaker 1: Hmm, good question.
For me, it's living my life my
way, in my own terms, and so
tomorrow? For me, today Is where
I'm living my life, my way, in
my own terms, today, in this
style, in this moment, with
what's shown up, while also
intentionally designing For my
tomorrow. So tomorrow I'm going
to be a step forward from where
I am today. I'm going to be in a
different space, so it's sitting
in that intentionality and
awareness of I'm exactly where
I'm meant to be. So that's your
question I love that.
Speaker 2: I love that. Normally
I go straight to the next
question that I just want to
come in in there On the back of
that, because a lot of people
think the ultimate tomorrow is
about tomorrow. But to me the
ultimate tomorrow is living now
In the way we want to live, like
you just described, to help us
better tomorrow, so that it is
an ultimate tomorrow, but we
plan it now and we live now as
if we are in that place,
planning strategic,
intentionally living the life
that we want to live. So I love
that answer you gave. It was
fantastic. And then the other
one and we sort of just answered
it, but maybe you got a little
bit of a twist on this is how do
you create your ultimate
tomorrow?
Speaker 1: It's exactly the four
key pillars of the Good Life
approach Looking, deciding for
you what is your vision for your
life, what are your values, what
is your mission, why are you
here and what goals do you need
to create in alignment, what
that's? So if you take them for
key pillars, you are, in essence
, creating your own Good Life
through intentional design. And
Neville Goddard, one of the guys
I always study, he's the power
of awareness. It is a phenomenal
game changing book, kingsley, if
you haven't heard it and for the
people listening there called
the power of awareness. His
name's Neville Goddard and he
always talks about living from
the end. And this is what I
teach. This is how I live.
Every morning, as soon as I get
up, I'm straight under my
visualization, my auto
suggestion, my video that I've
recorded of my life script, of
who I am, what I am doing, how
my day is going, how my world is
. And this is me implanting that
every single day through
intentional design, and this is
the power of it. So you have to
get clear on these aspects and
sit with them. Now. Be that
person now. What qualities, what
attributes, how would they be
shown up? How would they be
responding to things instead of
reacting. It's not about the
reflection of your current bank
balance, because where you're at
today, kingsley, is from past
thinking, it's from past
programming. So know that every
moment that you're in right now,
everything you do from this
moment, is building your future.
It's elevating you or it's
holding you back. So that's just
how I operate and that's how I
teach my kids to operate. This
is the ripple effect that we're
talking about, as it works.
Speaker 2: Yeah, fantastic Donna
. Thank you so much for joining
us on the Tomorrow's Not Today
podcast.
Speaker 1: There's so much great
stuff there.
Speaker 2: You're welcome. I do
love the alignment that's
happened. That was awesome as
well. And make sure I go ahead.
Find Donna on LinkedIn, facebook
, instagram, wherever you like,
find and get some of this, jump
on to one of those fortnightly
calls as well and connect with
her, and I'm sure if people
connect with you on LinkedIn,
you'll answer their questions.
Speaker 1: Let them know exactly
how to jump on those calls and
get that happening as well.
Speaker 2: Fantastic Also, donna
. Thank you so much. Have a
fantastic day.
Speaker 1: You're so welcome,
thanks I.
Speaker 2: Create the life you
want.
Speaker 1: Yeah.