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Donna Sherriff is a New Zealand based improvement and operations management specialist. Seeing a need for simple, no fuss, improvement advice she started The Lean Minimalist blog in 2017. Donna writes articles offering advice and tips for rapid and sustainable business improvement based on over 15 years in Senior Management roles.
Passionate about sharing the lessons of over 20 years on the high performance track Donna offers coaching services to professionals. She also writes about her own personal improvement journey, minimalism, and her life long struggle against the tyranny of cookies and sugar which she overcame in 2020. These days, Donna is pursuing a journey to earn her black belt in Taekwondo after a long hiatus of 16 years away from training. On the side she is an amateur but passionate musician and poet.

In the 20 Mile March of your Lean Journey, it’s OK to Stop to Catch Your Breath

I don’t know what it’s been like in your company since the Covid-19 pandemic started but in ours we’ve been busier than we’ve ever been. On top of this we’ve […]

Improvement Thinking is Instinctive and as Natural as Breathing

The other weekend I joined some of my work teammates as we volunteered to make fireplaces for people who really need their lives improved by fire. Our company has a […]

From Intentional Business to Intentional Living – Adapting the Flywheel concept to drive your personal development journey

I am a student of business as much as a student of life. I am fascinated by what makes a good business great and no one has done more research […]

Flywheel Mindset – I Now See How Perseverance is Needed for Everything We Want to Do Well

Every musician knows that learning an instrument is a labour of love. The hours of repetitive, frustrating, mediocre practice are infrequently rewarded by moments of getting it right. I imagine […]

Interview with WealthKode – The Flywheel Effect, Investing and Achieving Your Goals

Recently I had the chance to chat with Alan Blake of WealthKode. We had an interesting discussion about how you can apply the Flywheel concept to investing and life. Check […]

The Flywheel Series – 8 Steps on how to actually start pushing the Flywheel to achieve your goals

I recently had the privilege of sitting down with Alan Blakey of Wealthkode.com. We had a great chat about Jim Collins’ Flywheel Effect and how this might relate to investment […]

How far can you go? Pushing the limits of mental barriers to achieve more

We’ve had our rowing machine for a couple of years now and I can’t say I’ve been a fan. Ironically, when I was younger I was a coxen for a […]

Working around Injuries by Focusing on the End Goal not the Chosen Path

The year is passing quickly and I am already halfway through the second stage of this year’s training plan. Unfortunately, over the last two weeks I have had a succession […]

Happy New Year – Are You Ready to Start Changing into Your Next Self?

On the first day of the New Year I like to think about what the coming year might look like. Generally, late in the year I reflect on how far […]

Preparing for the New Year – How to Turn Your New Year’s Resolutions into a Solid Action Plan You Will Actually Achieve

Have you ever made ambitious New Year’s Resolutions only to find that three months in they have fallen by the wayside for whatever reason? Part of the reason that we […]

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