Gabriella Goddard's Blog (author of "Gulp!: The 7 day crash course to master fear and break through any challenge"

Latest Pledges

To write 400 words of my novel every morning before I go to work.. gulp. (Ruby)

To face adversity by finding solutions, not by eating food. I will exercise for at least 30minutes daily, no matter what, and learn how to use body intelligence to find the right weight for me. Currently 100K.(Sue)

Finally, finally stop moaning about that the fact that at 44 I can't lose some weight...and do it! My pledge is to weigh in at 9 stone by my 45th birthday on April 21st! (Suzanne)

More Gulp! Pledges

I am  almost 70 so ashamed to admit that am a total fool with money so pledge no.1 is to learn to handle money and pledge no.2 is to replan my way of living!   Carole

My pledge is to climb Mont Blanc in June07. (Last year I moved home (250 miles away!), went freelance, got dogs and pretty much changed everything. Climbing this mountain will be a good half-year focus!).   Lisa

My pledge is to stop procrastinating and start my masters research project. To get a job to pay the rent. To stop worrying so much about it all.    Sarah

I am going to jump in at the deep end and wholly commit to partnering in a new business. We I will ensure sucess by paying close attention to standards of delivery of service accepting only those who place great value in their work and their worth. Maree

Climb Moel Fammau with my three sons - we are all seasoned couch potatoes, gulp!   Kevin

My pledge is to get a fish ecology job by april 2007.  Mhairi

My pledge is to grow my business by 50 per cent this year and take a family holiday to remember! PRGirl

To get my paperwork tidied up and complete my tax returns for the last 2 years. Man, what a wait off my mind that would be! Mike

Your Gulp! Pledges

Complete a detailed business plan I can use to obtain funding for my new business
Kirsty

Learn to sing, so that I can perform 5 different karaoke songs well enough to earn an encore from complete strangers by Christmas 2006.
Jane

To start writing the novel that has been floating around in my head for the past 12 months!
Katie

Take the next leap in my career and become one of the senior team in the next 9 months
Jools

Run a 5K
vjs712

Write a leaflet publicising my coaching practice.
GG

To help the Well Woman Workshop project to crystallise their vision and get on track.
Divine

Coach practice clients for 6 hours
Melissa O

I pledged to launch my school sense campaign and get at least 10, 000 parents more involved in their child's school work.
Sarah Newton

I am going to learn to swim in the deap end. where my feet won't touch the bottom without me going under. This is going to be an exercise in trusting myself.
Maureen Windridge

Remove my butt from its warm comfortable groove on my sofa, get out into the world, get writing and photographing and get published in a national magazine.
Frisco

Find a sponsor for the 'Legacy Makers' programme.
LJ Taylor

Have written my first novel by my 46th birthday, in April 2007. I am tired of procrastinating - I just want to get on and DO IT! Gulp...
Maggie

To coach rugby for the first XV of a National League 3 Rugby Club by start of season 2007-2008.
Tony Ayin

To make moves towards my dream of designing and creating a leading edge entreprenurial incubator programme.
Lorraine

To finish the second half of the first draft of my novel. NEED to complete it to fight off all those demons inside me that say I can't do it. I CAN!
Ruby

Write my first book
Colette

have my own coaching course running by Sept 07
Niamh T

Make a "real" start on my novel
Gillian Reilly

write the best-selling book which I have been talking about for the last couple of years and retire on the royalties!
Hazel

Find my first corporate client for Ascent Adventure Coaching weekend, by October 2006
Jenny

Well I have a few! To complete the children's book I wrote one day when my daughter was very young. To get in the best shape of my life and enter a modeling contest. To perform in community theater with no acting background and sing. That's it for starters!
Star025

Launch my Women and Success Survey in the UK by the end of October 2006
Pollyana

Get my paperwork tidied up and complete my tax returns for the last 2 years. Man, what a wait off my mind that would be!
Mike

step out of the comfort of the corporate employed status and become freelance. This is a huge step for me on my journey of self-belief and self-responsibility. Gulp!
Roxy

To launch Learning With Spirit successfully by end October 2006. To have legal strusture for CIC established and agreed by the regulator and attract wonderful clients and coaching/facilitator staff who wish to share in the venture. To raise the required funding of initial £1m by December 2006
Sue

Carry on down the path that I have set myself; to not turn back in fear, but to continue to that place where I am who I KNOW deep down that I really am.
Susie

Finish that novel!
Bunny

Send out one feature proposal per week to get my journalistic practice off the ground
Maria

To find a place of my own to live, be in the job I realy look forward to every morning, and find someone who I look forward to coming home to, within the next 12 months but starting from now!
Keir

To complete the play I started and stopped this summer and enter it into a theatre competition at the beginning of next year. I need to get over the fear that I will never be able to write anything that’s ‘good enough’ and just write!
P

Put together a proposal to run a stress management workshop and follow up my contacts in a big corporate to explore coaching opportunities.
Nick

Re-start my business after a 3 year break
Caroline

Train and volunter for The British Red Cross Skin Camouflage Service. This service makes a significant difference to the lives of people whose appearance is affected by scarring or disfiguring skin conditions. Each selected volunteer cost the service £500 to train. I aim to raise £500 by 31 December 2006 to cover the cost of the training by asking friends, family and colleagues to sponsor me.
Shaun