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.
Every three years the Lean Certification granted to me by the Society for Manufacturing Engineers (SME) comes up for re-certification. Part of the certification process involves recording the lean and […]
‘If you want to be tougher mentally, it is simple: be tougher. Don’t meditate on it.’ – Jocko Willink So at the beginning of this year I decided that by […]
And so, last week the inevitable happened. If you’ve been reading my blog for a while you will know that the main motivator behind my ongoing and relentless quest for […]
‘The greatest threat to success is not failure but boredom’ – James Clear My back hurts, my feet hurt and I’m tired in a muscle fatigue kind of way. I […]
In my experience it takes twenty days for a new habit to stop feeling weird and start to feel like something you ‘just do’. It takes ninety days for it […]
Four hundred and forty two days ago I published what has been my most read article so far, From Intentional Business to Intentional Living – Adapting the Flywheel concept to […]
Are you looking for a community of like minded people? Are you interested in sharing your story, getting support and achieving your goals on your path to Intentional Living? If […]
So over 12 weeks ago now, I started a 12 week, healthy eating and fitness challenge. It was pretty challenging, a lot of fun and extremely rewarding. Under my excess […]
I saw a really great quote from James Clear today. ‘The more you let a single belief define you, the less capable you are of adapting when life challenges you.’ […]
It’s been 17 days since I challenged myself to do 10,000 steps per day while in lock-down. In New Zealand, lock-down really means lock-down. We are only allowed to leave […]
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