I have just had the most wonderful trip to Cape Town making Magic and sprinkling Fairy Dust and helping lots of people get clear on their dreams and goals and how to turn them into reality.

I had a very successful Possibility Evening where we examined The Mind and Beliefs and how our beliefs help or hinder us in achieving our dreams and goals.  I had a sold-out Dream Mapping and Goal Setting workshop where 24 people got inspired, clear, focused and into ACTION on their dreams and goals.

I also met Adin van Ryneveld who is a very DARING dreamer… he has embarked on a project called (adin)5 where for the next 5 years he is going to do what I call an ‘abundance experiment’ to test the abundance of the Universe.  He is going to donate 80% of what he earns to charity and the other 20% goes to servicing his credit card debt and to live he is going to rely on the kindness of friends, family and strangers.   I heard about his project and as a Fairy Godmother I am a BIG supporter of ANY dream - no matter how wild and crazy (in fact the wilder and crazier the better).  I knew that to help him on his journey he would need the tools, techniques and tips on how to manifest and create what he wants and who better to get that from than the Fairy Godmother!    So I donated him a place at my Possibility Evening and on my Dream Mapping and Goal Setting workshop (because he can’t pay for it, because the money that he earns goes to charity).

He was so excited about this, that he made a little video - take a look

So people that I meet in my work as a Fairy Godmother come up with the excuse that they can’t live their dreams because they won’t be able to afford to  ‘pay the bills’ or get by.  I love that Adin is destroying that myth with his project, by giving away ALL his earnings and still being able to live - how EXTRAORDINARY!

For more on his project go to http://adin5.wordpress.com/ or become his friend on Facebook

Want to live your dream life and do what you love?

Do you know what that looks like or how to make it happen for yourself?

Just think: When you are driving, you know where you want to go and you plot out your route. When you plan and prepare a meal, you follow a recipe and monitor the food as it cooks. How much attention do you give to planning the direction of your life?

Set up your life powerfully by spending a full day on a Dream Mapping and Goal Setting Workshop to get clear on your dreams, ‘map-out’ your goals and focus on the direction for your life. Take the time for YOU - to review your life, re-evaluate what you are doing and where you want to go. To ensure you are on track for what you most want.

Outcomes

By the end of the workshop you will

• Have clarity, focus, direction and tangible tools to use to create a life you love
• Be clear on a future direction for your life
• Have given yourself time to relax and play
• Have made a Dream Collage to take home to remind you of what you want
• Have given yourself time for you
• You will have a Big Goal to inspire you
• Find a renewed zest and energy for life
• Have practical tools to use in your day-to-day life to turn your dreams into reality

“My relationships at work have changed already; I am so much more positive and compassionate, and meetings that used to be dreadful to me have actually been quite inspiring and energising. Also, in my morning visioning exercise I am on a TV show - and guess what, a producer from Free Spirit is seeing me on Tuesday!”

Shakti Malan, Cape Town, South Africa

Workshop Dates

Cape Town

Date: Saturday 4 July 2009

Time: 10h00 - 18h00

Venue: Claremont

Cost: R 690  (including materials)

Early Bird Special

Book and Pay by Friday 12 June and you qualify for the Early Bird Special of only  R 550 - that’s a 20% discount!

To Book

Email workshops@fairygodmotherinc.com or call 082-411-3875

“Powerful, touching, clear, playful, truthful.”
Ercan Altub – Hamburg, Germany

“Exceptional! I had fears to come along because I did not want to have an afternoon of esoteric talk which I couldn’t draw real possibilities from. The positivity emanating from Donna and the group was amazing. I genuinely know this course will help me to accept ‘the flow of life’ and stop feeling inadequate and unfulfilled.”

Mandy La Grange – London, United Kingdom

What is Dream Mapping and Goal Setting?

Dream Mapping is a process to help you get clear on what you want in your life, or in a specific aspect of your life and then to set BIG goals to help you achieve those dreams.
During this experiential workshop we will go through a series of exercises to assist you in realizing and crystallising your dreams for yourself and your life. The workshop will include relaxation, mind and dream theory, creating your own dream collage, and then basic tools to use on a day-to-day basis for manifesting your dreams.
You will relax, cut & paste, have fun & get in touch with the dreams that linger in your soul!

“An amazing workshop. You have really touched lives and truly are a fairy godmother. I have been on a number of self development courses and yours is among the best.”

Deelesh Ravjee – Johannesburg, South Africa

“For the first time in my life I have a dream I can see and feel and touch and have the tools to achieve it.”

Bev Doyle – Johannesburg, South Africa

Workshop Facilitator

Donna McCallum is a Fantastically Fabulous and Magical Fairy Godmother.
She is an inspirational communicator with a passion for people, turning vision into reality, business, making things happen, connection and making a difference.
She is the MD of Fairy Godmother Inc. a business committed to spreading the message that it is possible to live your dreams.
Prior to being a Fairy Godmother Donna was a serial entrepreneur who has started, run and sold a number of successful businesses in both Marketing and IT.

“Dream mapping is a most amazing tool, and has changed my life. I am suddenly in touch with my goals and dreams and am taking action into achieving and making something worthwhile of my life. God bless you as you go about spreading your fairy dust!”
Meryl-Lynne Colborne, Durban, South Africa

 Start with one positive thought.

If you repeat that thought over and over again and focus on it enough, the mind will latch onto it and do its smart work of looking around the physical world for other thoughts to match it. It creates a thread of thought that becomes a story as more thoughts corroborate the first.

Many teachers have written about this technique over many years – it is called affirmation. An affirmation is a made-up, empowering thought. Repeat out loud to yourself as you get ready in the morning.  Write it on post-it notes and stick these wherever you will come across them in your daily life – on your fridge, your desk, your bathroom mirror. In a few days, weeks or months your mind will take the sentence and create a story out of it with other thoughts that it finds in the world. You will find you are living in a new story and have thus created a new reality of the mind, which in turn creates a new reality in the physical world.

Affirmations should be constructed and repeated in the present tense. Here are some examples of affirmations:
•    I deserve to be wealthy.
•    I am a being of light and whoever I touch feels inspired.
•    I attract loving, caring men into my life.
•    I take excellent care of my body and crave only healthy food and beverages.
•    I am young and successful earning at least R30 000 a month.

When you begin the first tentative mumblings of affirmations, you may feel silly, and some of these affirmations may conflict with existing stories suspended somewhere in the sky of your mind. When you say an affirmation, it may conflict with a ‘bigger, stronger story’ (i.e. one that has more thoughts attached to it). The bigger, stronger story doesn’t like this pesky new-thought-on-the-block and will try to quickly punch it out of existence as it fights to maintain its place in the mind. This is because the mind does not like to encounter contradictory thoughts; it wants to be ‘right’, and how can it be right if two contradictory stories are both true?

As you repeat the words, ‘I am now and always will be responsible with my money,’ the contradictory story may chatter in your mind. The bigger, disempowering story will try to squash this new thought by bringing up evidence, examples and thoughts about why this new thought is not the truth.  ‘Don’t be ridiculous! You, responsible with money? Why do you have R40 000 worth of credit card debt if you are so responsible, huh?’

The trick at this stage of the affirmation game is twofold:

1.    Become the observer of your thoughts and realise both thoughts are stories and neither is the truth. The disempowering story is in a fight for its survival.

2.    Keep repeating the new affirmation – as often as possible. Have it around you as much as possible. Write it often. Repeating the affirmation or thought will create the sticky glue that it needs to attach itself to other thoughts and thus form the chain that creates a new story.

If you continue to do this, at some stage you will notice the old story simply disappears because the new story has enough corroborating thoughts to make it grow bigger and become ‘the truth’.   And that beautiful thing about creating empowering ‘truths’ is that your reality will begin to match whatever your mind believes to be true.

Create an affirmation now.

Get out those post-it notes, write it down.  Repeat it out loud while driving, in the shower or before you go to sleep at night and watch as your life magically transforms in that area.

Yes – the magic is that simple!

I was walking in Sandton City Shopping Centre yesterday and my Fairy Godmother heart leapt with delight as I chanced upon these two pieces of Advertising….

And this one too….

When these types of positive messages about

• Following our dreams
• Our individual power to change the world
• Our stepping beyond our fears into our greatness

move into the mainstream media like this, it signifies to me a massive shift in consciousness. People are beginning to realise that they can live their dreams and be the change that they want to see in the world.

I urge the media and advertisers out there to be conscious of putting out positive messaging, rather than negative messaging that pollutes our minds.

As these positive messages seep into our environment and our realities, I urge you to heed their message and take your next BOLD action in living your dreams….

P.S. - Anyone know who created these ads?

Because I would love to give them a Fairy Godmother reward….  leave a comment below

Did you know that on average New Year’s Resolutions last 2 weeks?  

So why do we even bother?

The beginning of the year is always pregnant with possibility and potential for people, it is like someone has cleaned the slate of the past and now we get to recreate our lives and our futures.  For most people at the end of the old year there is a cycle of reflection and looking back on the year past and then the new year is the season of new beginnings and the energy and excitement that comes with a new year is a very powerful catalyst for creating an incredible year.    But if New Year’s resolutions don’t really work, then why even make them?  Exactly, throw them out, I say!   And now instead I am going to give you the Fairy Godmother’s guide to powerfully creating a phenomenal year in 2009.

Set Intentions rather than resolutions

That all-knowing mama-ship of words, the Dictionary, says that an intention is

“the act of determining mentally upon some action or the result specifically with the end in mind.”

It is really just thinking about the outcome of what you want.  It is different to a resolution which is about resolve and determination and is often about stopping or giving something up.  Intention is much lighter, it is merely a kind of wishful thinking about what you want.

Why even set an intention?

Wishes, dreams, goals and intentions give us a sense of direction in our lives,  a sense of where we are going and what we are moving towards. Just think: When you are driving, you know where you want to go and you plot out your route.  If you didn’t know where you where going to, then at every stop street you would be turning left or right and where would you then end up?  Probably going around in circles, which is how a lot of people experience their lives – the past being repeated over and over again.

An exercise for setting intentions:

Lie down on the floor and close your eyes, become aware of your breathing and gently relax now imagine that you are in December 2009 – you can be anywhere you decide that you want to be – you may be on your summer holiday, at a party with friends, the last day at the office.  Take a look around your surroundings – what do you see, what do you hear, what do you feel?   Now imaging that there is someone that you are speaking to – it could be a work colleague, friend, partner, family member.  Now imagine that you are telling them about your incredible 2009 and why it has been so fantastic – tell them about all the things that have happened during the year that have made it your best year yet.  Now imagine that you have your cell phone or digital camera with you while you are chatting to them and while you are talking you are flicking through and showing them photos of all the incredible things that have happened during 2009.  Hear yourself speaking to them, see the photos of what has happened in the year and feel the emotions of excitement and elation and happiness as you speak to them.

When you are ready, you then open your eyes and write down on a piece of paper all of the things that you told the person in your imagination about what had happened in 2009.

These are now your intentions for 2009.
Put these up in your bedroom, bathroom mirror, office – somewhere visible so that you can see them often and reflect on them.

Now every morning for the next 30 days, close your eyes and imagine the story that you have just created of the day in December 2009. Imagine it with all five of your senses, as if you are really there.

I did this exercise in January of 2008 to powerfully set-up my year. I imagined myself walking in a forest in Argentina, speaking Spanish and telling a friend about the magic and amazing things that happened during 2008.

As I write this post, a year later, I am aware of having completely manifested my own reality.  I am sitting now overlooking a still, vibrant-blue lake and magnificent mountains of a little town called Bariloche in Argentina. A few days ago it happened I reality, that walk in the forest, and one of the things that I delightedly shared with my friend was the fact that my dream of inspiring thousands of people through my writing has come true through being approached by South Africa’s biggest publisher to write a book – which I am excited to say I have just completed.   Something that a year ago seemed highly improbable, merely a wishful thinking dream, has come true.

Below is a pictue of a room that I have spent a lot of time in over the last month while writing my book - as you can see it has magnificent views of the lakes and mountains.

That is the power of this exercise.  Create your life, as you wish it to be.

Make your intentions outcome based

The trick with setting powerful intentions is to start with a clear picture of the final outcome making up a story of what you want to have happen.  As an example an intention for 2009 could be to start your own business. In setting this intention imagine yourself in your own offices, speaking to clients on the phone or out having lunch with your 3 big clients that you have been working with for the last few months.  Get a clear mental image and sense of what you want.

Make sure they are positive outcome images

Often we make resolutions about things we don’t want to do – like

I want to give-up smoking;

I want to stop eating fatty foods,

I want to stop having late nights,

I want to get out of debt,

I want to stop working such long hours and being stressed.

When you create your intentions be aware of the image that comes up in your mind when you think about it.  Eg. when you say I want to give up smoking the image that appears in your head is of you smoking, or when you say I want to stop working long hours the image that appears in your minds-eye is one of sitting behind your desk, with work stacked up and working long hours. So make sure any intention that you set brings up positive images of what you want eg. instead of
“I want to give up smoking” replace it with
“I am healthy, vital and energetic and truly care for my body”
and then imagine yourself doing gym classes, eating good food and feeling well.

Instead of “I am going to stop working long hours and being stressed”
– “I am leading a balanced life where work and play are equally combined”
and then imagine yourself playing with your kids at home without being distracted and leaving work at 5 feeling good about what you have done that day.

Speak the intentions as if they are in the present

Our thoughts, words and actions truly create our realities.  So many of us are unaware about the power of our thoughts and words in creating our lives.  Movies like ‘the Secret’ and ‘What the bleep’ have begun to open up general consciousness to the power of our thoughts and that our thoughts truly do become things, however our speaking and action are just as important as our thoughts – because speaking and action are more physical than our thoughts.  However, so many people speak and act unconsciously, unaware of the impact on their lives.  Watch your words.  They create your world.

In the intentions used above eg.  I am leading a balanced life where work and play are equally combined, you will see that they are formed in the present tense using ‘I am’ rather than in the future like ‘I am going to’, or ‘I will lead a balanced life’.
Here’s analogy about why you should speak intentions in the present.  Imagine you are planting a beautiful vegetable garden, you buy lettuce seeds from the nursery;  you dig holes and place the lettuce seeds in them; and then you water those seeds every few days.  You would say to a friend “I have planted lettuces in my vegetable garden”.  What you have done in reality is just put seeds in the ground, but because you are so certain that they will grow into lettuces you say “I have planted lettuces”, like the lettuces already exist.  Your words automatically create an image in your mind of beautiful green, succulent lettuces growing in the soil.

It is the same with intentions. When you speak intentions and think thoughts in the present tense what you are doing is planting the seed of intention like it is true now and while it may not be where your current circumstances have lead you today, by using the present tense you are planting the potential seed that will grow into the beautiful reality of your desired future.

Take time out to set your intentions

If you really want to create a life that you love with all your dreams coming true then as a Fairy Godmother, who knows all about making dreams come true, I highly recommend that you take a few hours for yourself to do this intention setting exercise, write them down, stick them up and then spend time imagining the outcome and have a fun, playful, magical and kick-ass 2009!