The past 2 months in South Africa have been SO filled with Football Fever, amazing atmosphere and fanatical fans.  I was so swept up in this delicious World Cup Madness and Mayhem, that for the Fairy Godmother Community I wrote their July learning module to reflect the lessons we can learn from “the beautiful game” to help us in our manifesting.
I wanted to give you a taste of these lessons too!

1.    Life is a GAME

The obvious parallel between Life and Football is that they are both a game.   Living life with the mentality that it is nothing but a game is liberating and gives you the freedom to choose how you want to play the game.

2.    Player or Spectator?

Now that you know that life is a game, the first decision to make is do you want to be a player or a spectator?    You will find that the areas in your life in which you choose to be a player are the areas that work.  The Areas that don’t work are your spectator areas – you simply watch the game rather than being part of it.

Life will always reward you when you decide to PLAY!

3.    Know the Rules of the Game

The objective of life is very simple – TO HAVE FUN!

The Rules

• He who has the most fun wins
• You can do anything you want utilizing your body, mind and soul
• You have the full power of creation i.e. everything you put into the world materialises
  • Your thoughts materialise and become things
  • Your words materialise and become things
  • Your actions materialize and become things
• With the law of cause and effect in play – ‘what you do to others will be done unto you’ or said in another biblical way ‘what ye sow, so shall ye reap tenfold’

4.    Play with your own Style and Strengths

In a Football team, individuals are chosen to play certain positions based on their strengths – whether it is speed, tackling, agility, defensive ability. Those strengths are then enhanced and honed through hours of training and coaching.   If you watch a soccer training-camp the goalkeepers will be doing different training from the strikers and goal scorers.  There is no point in teaching a goal-keeper how to score goals when his strength is in defending the goal.   This may sound obvious yet we don’t seem to practice it in our own lives.

When we focus on our strengths – train them, master them and play with them – the world is better for it and we are better for it.   When we play to our strengths we move into flow and we get rewarded handsomely by the Universe.

5.    Life is a Team Sport

The reason why it is okay to focus on your strengths, your unique genius, and be a specialist rather than an ‘all-rounder’ is because life is a team sport (thank goodness!).

It does mean that to play the game well, you need to be a team player and connect with others.  To achieve your dreams and goals you can’t do it all on your own – you need to enlist the help of others and create a team of others around you who can help you play and vice versa.   When each of you plays to your strengths and honours the contribution and strengths of the others then you are on the path to being world champions.

6.    Get Good support

In Dream Mapping Workshops, in my book, in talks, on Growing Wings and on the Fairy Godmother Community I am constantly encouraging you to “Set up your Supporting Cast”.

In International Football each of the teams has a “big supporting cast” – they have coaches, assistant coaches, managers, logistics people, nutritionists, physiotherapists, doctors, psychologists etc. etc.
All of these people support the team and the individual players to be the best that they can be.

If you want to play at the level of “EXTRAORDINARY LIFE” then you too need to build a supporting cast of people who will help and support you in becoming the best you can be.

7.    Training is pivotal

No team goes into a World Cup tournament without preparing and training.   The better your training and preparation, the more likely you are to play the game well.  The players don’t expect to be fit, they GET FIT.    When they train, they always have a goal of what they are working towards – eg. Winning the UEFA Cup.

A commitment to continuous personal development particularly focused on your STRENGTHS, talent, passions and genius will lead you to be a great player.

If you want to start some training to live your dream life – you can do our workshop, talks, Growing Wings program or join the Fairy Godmother Community.

8.    Your Greatness Inspires others

Soccer stars are idolised around the world.  There are thousands of little boys around the world who dream of “bending it like Beckham”.   Why do these football players inspire millions around the world?

Because they follow their dream, LIVE their GREATNESS and unashamedly share their talent and genius with the world.    Isn’t it time you did the same.

Find your Purpose. Discover your Destiny.

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.

During this fun full-day workshop you will…

1. Create a Vision Board (Dream Map)

2. Come up with a WIG (Wildly Improbable Goal) that inspires you

3. Learn tools for creating through the mind and manifesting

4. Learn how to overcome your fears

5. Build a Supporting Cast – to support your success

To see what others have to say about this workshop watch the video below

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

“Dear Donna,

I need to thank you for changing the direction of my life in a new and wonderful direction. Yesterday was a wonderful experience and the best investment I have made in myself ever.

The good news is that my husband is actually going to support me in realizing my dreams.  I have told the ladies in my office about you and they are keen to attend the next workshop in Durban.    Please keep me informed and thank you once again for every thing”            Sune – Durban, South Africa

Workshop Dates

Cape Town

Date: Sunday, 12 September 2010
Time: 10h00 – 18h30
Venue: Hans Strijdom Avenue
Price : R 890 per person (including materials) or just R790 if payment is received no later than 27 August 2010

Johannesburg

Date: Saturday 18 September 2010
Time: 10h00 – 18h30
Venue: to be advised
Price : R 890 per person (including materials) or just R790 if payment is received no later than 27 August 2010

To Book

Email workshops@fairygodmotherinc.com or call on 084 207 0202

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

“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

“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

Over the last three years Donna McCallum, the Fairy Godmother, has helped over 2000 individuals in South Africa, Europe and the USA to realise their dreams and achieve success.  She has also helped companies like Standard Bank, Mica Hardware, Sun International etc. align their teams around goals and start getting the results that they want.    Her success has led to her being approached by South Africa’s largest publisher to write a book.  “The Fairy Godmother’s Guide to Getting What you Want” is now on shelf in bookstores countrywide. She was named in the Mail & Guardian’s 300 influential young South Africans list in 2009.

Prior to being a Fairy Godmother, Donna McCallum was a successful 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

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Our society teaches us that it is better to give than to receive, which is why so many people find the RECEIVING part of manifesting the most difficult part of the process.

Learning to Receive is pivotal to creating a life you love and reaching your dreams and goals.    During this 2 hour talk Donna McCallum, the Fairy Godmother, will teach you The Art of Receiving – so that you can attract and receive all you deserve and more!

This is a fun, experiential and participative session to bring the inspiration and magic back into your life!

Date:         Wednesday 8th September 2010

Time:        19h30 – 21h30

Venue:     Bandwidth Barn, 5th floor – Buitengracht Centre, 125 Buitengracht St, Cape Town

Price:       R 100

Special for Fairy Godmother Community Members – bring a friend to this Possibility Evening and you get in Free!

To Book Call 084-207-0202 or email info@fairygodmotherinc.com

One of my key intentions for 2010 is…

“to live and act out of a place of faith rather than fear”

In January this was hard, but at the end of January some magic and miracles occurred in my life that have now shifted me into a place deep faith.  It is a feeling of trusting that life is on my side and having the courage to believe that EVERYTHING (and I mean everything) that happens serves my life for the best.

I am finding that as I act out of this place of faith my life becomes magical, playful and fun…. Wheeeeuw!  How refreshing!

Read here about how to overcome your fears

So I urge you to use this last week in February to develop your faith – and I don’t mean only religion – I mean the simple belief, trust and knowing that everything is going to be okay.

Have faith!

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

In my Dream Mapping and Goal Setting Workshops (and also in my book) I teach how to create a Future Imagined Memory (FIM) as a key technique to create what you want in your life and manifest your goals.

Briefly, a Future Imagined Memory is a story, in the present tense, of the ‘outcome’ of your dream or goal. This is an imagined and made-up story of a future event with you in it in which your goal has become a reality. This story should be written clearly, describing the experience in detail and, most importantly, in terms of all five of your senses.

After you have created your story, every day for the next 30 days, spend 10 minutes in the morning or 10 minutes in the evening jumping into your Future Imagined Memory. Lie down, get comfortable, close your eyes and relax. Imagine yourself in the scene. While you are doing the exercise, get excited about it: feel the positive feelings, listen to the sounds, enjoy the sensation of having what you want in your life. Do this every day for 30 days and then stop. Thirty days is long enough to turn the Future Imagined Memory into a desire fully felt and understood by the body and the mind.

In the last few months I have received a number of emails from Daring Dreamers with questions about the Future Imagined Memory Technique… so here are 5 additional tips and tricks for you to apply.

Tip 1:  Keep the story exactly the same

Keep the same story for the 30 days; don’t add bits or take bits away.  With the daily repetition the mind will often be tempted to change the story.  It is important to keep the same story so that this becomes ingrained in the mind and to create a vivid future memory.

Tip 2: Make sure it is the outcome not the how

When you develop your FIM story, make sure that the story is an outcome i.e. that you goal or dream is complete. It has happened.  Don’t try to create a story around the process, the ‘how’.  As an example if you have a goal to write a book, don’t imagine sitting behind your computer and typing because that is the process. Rather create your FIM about the book being done eg. being at your book launch, seeing the book in a store or being interviewed on TV about the book.

Tip 3: Sensing rather than vivid

A comment from one of my daring dreamers recently was
“what I find is sometimes I do my FIM it goes really well, most of the time I struggle with hearing, tasting & smelling the others are okay”

In NLP (neuro-linguistic programming) there is a theory that one of our senses is slightly more developed than the others. Your primary senses are visual, auditory and kinesthetic, and normally one of these will be your most prominent sense. You may be a highly visual person. When you close your eyes and imagine your future memory you may be able to ‘see’ all the details reasonably clearly, but the hearing may be a little more difficult. You may be a highly auditory person, which means you are more attuned to sound. When you imagine your future memory you can hear all the sounds clearly but may not be able to conjure up the sense of touch with such clarity. Or you may be a kinaesthetic person, which means emotions and tactile sensations are easy for you to imagine and feel but pictures are a bit hazy and sound not as apparent. Whichever is your primary sense, be aware that it is through this sense that you will primarily experience your Future Imagined Memory. However, focus on the other senses too.

Even though you will be imagining your FIM with your five senses, please note that your FIM will probably not be in Technicolor, Dolby sound with which you experience life.  Doing the FIM is more like sensing things than necessarily seeing, hearing or feeling things in crystal clear clarity.  If it is not sharp and clear don’t worry, just keep doing it.

Tip 4:  Distraction

During the FIM process you may find that your mind begins to wander or gets distracted.  This is very normal.  When you realise that your mind has wandered, gently bring it back to where you were in your story and continue the process.  You may need to do this many times during the process.  Some days you may find you are more distracted than others.

Tip 5: Narrate yourself through the story

For some people it helps to narrate yourself through the story.  You may want to do this silently in your head as you go through the story or a few of my Daring Dreamers like to talk it out loud to themselves, while their eyes are closed and they are imagining it.  An idea is to record yourself narrating your FIM and then listen to the narration every morning – this is particularly useful for two reasons.
1.    The story is always exactly the same as it has been recorded
2.    It is easier to stay focused and not get distracted

Good luck with your FIM and doing it for 30 days – you will be AMAZED at the results.

To practice creating a FIM, here is a Free FIM Download to create 2009 as your best year yet

If you have any further tips or tricks or questions about the Futurre Imagined Memory technique or visualisation, please leave a comment below.