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    Confidence: Mind, Body, and Spirit, #6
    Confidence: Mind, Body, and Spirit, #6
    Confidence: Mind, Body, and Spirit, #6
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    Confidence: Mind, Body, and Spirit, #6

    By Donna V.

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    The trick to giving and receiving knowledge is in acquiring an open heart and an open mind--an open heart on the giving end and an open mind on the receiving end. This becomes a true partnership based on unconditional love.

    Join 16 spiritual women of the island of Hawai'i as they impart this gift to every reader. Then, watch this unconditional love unfold and come in to full bloom in each of their lives--a generous offering of beauty and fragrance to all.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPele Publishing
    Release dateMay 16, 2015
    ISBN9781513089331
    Confidence: Mind, Body, and Spirit, #6
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    Donna V.

    Raised in South Florida and presently residing on the island of Hawai'i, Donna was a former university professor and fashion designer. It was her extensive travel which began at a very young age that created an intense interest in multi-national culture, eventually leading to a Master of International Business Administration (MIBA) degree - providing the entry to a career as a professor of international business. Donna's belief that we are all here on this beautiful planet to experience life lessons and be of assistance to others as they travel their "spiritual road" through life led her to become a successful author. She has completed the first part of her commitment to the Divine to do his work in our world today with the six-book series, "Mind, Body, and Spirit." The second half of that promise is sure to include both private and public speaking engagements and continued international travel. In the future, Donna looks forward to enjoying her well-established active outdoor lifestyle featuring "open water" swimming and outrigger canoe paddling. Her path has been an exciting and very fulfilling one and she plans to keep generously sharing her "gifts" with others as long as she lives. As Donna says, "This is a guarantee..."

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      Confidence - Donna V.

      Other Books by Donna V.

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      Cheers, Donna V.

      Aloha

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      Copyright © 2014 Donna V.

      All rights reserved.

      ISBN: 1503009084

      ISBN 13: 9781503009080

      About the Cover

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      When I first moved to Hawai’i my brother warned me of the intensity of the sun with these words, The sun is an eight here Donna, not what you are used to—be careful when you are walking around.

      Shane’s statement of concern led me to an after thought purchase at a tiny thrift shop in Waimea a few weeks later...

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      While my brother was looking over the enormous offering of books, I found my treasure nestled in a wire bin containing purses—appearing a bit dusty and in need of a good bath.

      Several days after my purchase, and with the addition of two hand-painted paper hibiscus flowers, my new fashion look was born.

      My collection of hats began. Each one became progressively larger (eight in total)—artistically decorated with a pair of my giant hibiscus flowers. I now proudly wear a different hat daily to protect my face and enhance the beauty of my outfits.

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      It was a Saturday and I had just stopped into a boutique at Kings’ Shops on the search for a pair of leggings to wear for yoga practice.

      The saleswoman looked up at my hat as I entered and said, What a powerful fashion statement. I wish I could wear a hat like that but I just can’t.

      I quickly countered with, Why not?

      She continued, My friends would laugh at me. It would take a lot of...

      When I could see that she was stuck for the right word to finish off her sentence, I supplied it. I said quite distinctly, Confidence.

      What is in a Name?

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      While I was still living at home with my family, and working at the Chamber of Commerce, Mom and I took a trip to Europe...

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      Our choice from all the Globus Gateway offerings was a 28-day Splendors of Switzerland, tour which began in Zurich and encompassed every canton in the breathtaking and pristine country.

      In Lugano we stayed in a hotel at a very high elevation which had a funicular as its main means of guest transport. One rode this tiny tram car (propelled by cables and running on rails) down the steep mountain incline to and from town.

      On a Friday evening, just before our visit to the next scheduled city, Mom and I decided that a dinner at the casino restaurant on the lakefront might make a nice treat...

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      I approached the reservation podium and the maitre d’ asked me my name. I said, Donna.

      He repeated his request.

      This time I enunciated, Donna, as slowly as possible.

      He looked directly at me and said, "That is not a name, that is a title—I will need your name for reservations."

      At this point my mother, who had been sitting in the waiting area casually chatting to a few prospective diners, sensed a problem and came over to see what was wrong.

      I explained the situation to her and Mom said quite plainly to the maitre d’, I christened my daughter with the name, Donna. What is the problem? The man quickly seated us, realizing that he was now causing a scene.

      The following day we discussed my name issue with our tour guide who explained, In this area of Europe your name, ‘Donna,’ is a title that means ‘lady’ or ‘lady of the manor’—rather like Lord and Lady in England.

      Now, we understood!

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      When I was born, there was a choice for my name. My mother wanted either Rose or Juanita and my father took one look at me as a baby and said, That, is Donna.

      Thankfully, Donna won out.

      Introduction

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      Sandwiched between my career as a university professor and a spiritual author, I was a fashion designer in Australia. It was this middle career that taught me about confidence. I should say, confidence and women.

      Up until that point in time I never really had much interaction with the female sex, preferring instead to surround myself by men. As one of my best friends was fond of saying, Donna, never forget—men are like sharks. We are motivated by two things—food and sex. Not necessarily in that order.

      Men, I understood...

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      When growing up in South Florida, I was encircled by women of extreme confidence. The leader of the pack was my mother. She was a woman who was never a follower but always a forerunner (a 5’ 4 fireball of vitality with auburn hair that matched her can do" disposition).

      Of course, there were others...

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      My brother Shane and I were invited to a party one evening at a friend’s home on the intracoastal waterway in Lighthouse Point. The view was lovely and the group was a perfect mix. Somewhere between drinks and appetizers the wife of our host walked in, one hour late, having just arrived from a quick yacht voyage to the Bahamas...

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      Susie always colored and cut her hair to match her current mood and that particular evening it was platinum blond (a perfect contrast to her dark brown suntan) and was spiked straight up and trimmed to a one-inch height at the crown. She was wearing one of her husband’s long sleeve white dress shirts with the cuffs turned back several times and nothing else but a ring she had just created from the pull tab of an aluminum soda can.

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      Susie weighed about 110 pounds, was 5’ 9" tall and had the body of a high fashion model (or a 12-year old boy) depending upon one’s perspective. She would joke that she never spent money on bras because she had nothing to put in them.

      In a word, Susie consistently looked—stunning.

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      "In order to be irreplaceable, one must always be different."

      —Coco Channel

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      Kit was a woman of average height with a beautiful curvaceous figure and an amazingly positive and loving disposition to match. She only bought accessories of two types—extremely expensive or outrageously cheap.

      Her summer shoes were flip-flops with bright and shiny vinyl thong tops which she purchased in every color of the rainbow from our local drugstore for $4.99 each.

      Kit was such a popular fashion icon in our beach community that many of the young women would try to copy her unique look.

      One’s fashion signature is signed through their accessories.

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      In a community of 120 pound mothers, one stood out. Jane, a local doctor’s wife and mother of three, was at least 240 pounds and had a rare fashion sense brought forth from an extremely high level of self-confidence. A beautiful, and very large, ring adorned each shapely finger and at least 15 gold bracelets of every possible description filled her entire right forearm.

      Jane was a good friend of my mom and one day while we were shopping at our neighborhood Publix supermarket, she flamboyantly waved us down with this statement, Barbara, what do you think of my dress? I have just come out with a line of clothing for large women and this is my first design. She circled a full 360 degrees for us both to have a good look.

      Mom replied, I think it’s lovely. The design is simple and the colors and printing of the fabric is amazing. I know you will be a success, Jane.

      The most fashionable women of each decade never followed fashion—they created it.

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      Confidence and fear are the polar opposites of each other, what I term—spill out emotions. They are very far-reaching and as a result, early confidence is

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