OFF STAGE with Lisa O'Neill

How interesting are you? This week I’m making the case against being boring and inviting you to do an “interesting inventory,” then go top it up. Make the relish, wear the lipstick, turn up to the workshop where you know no one.
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Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it. That’s Maya Angelou, and it’s the whole premise of my new book, Do You. This week I’m talking about your biggest job (doing you), reframing the upside of your so-called flaws, surrounding yourself with beautiful things on purpose, and the line I want you saying all week: I’m doing it my way.

If you don’t dress like everyone else, you don’t have to think like everyone else. That’s Iris Apfel, and it’s my whole philosophy this week. I’m talking about dressing like the happiest version of yourself (not the hottest), why saving your favourite things “for best” is nonsense, and my wish for you: wear something no one else likes.

A surprise trip that went gloriously sideways taught me everything about the three parts of experience - anticipation, participation, reflection. This week I'm talking about why the planning is often the best bit, a simple idea for shifting a culture that badly needs it ("that's not okay," said out loud and with love), and the Byron Katie line holding it all together: everything happens for you, not to you.

Our bodies hold on to what our minds won't say. This week, craving space in Nelson, I'm talking about Louise Hay's work and how emotional energy gets trapped in the body - shoulders for responsibility, hips for moving forward, the calendar-fear behind one friend's hay fever. Lie down, have a meeting with your body, and listen to what it's telling you.
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