Dayna Del Val

Personal Systems Disruptor

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  • Contact me
  • Daily Dose
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  • Public speaking
  • Writing Retreat Reflections
  • Personal Writing

    6 months, 182 days, 4,380 hours ago…

    March 2, 2021 / 0 Comments

    So the Hamlet analogy can only go so far since the ending is not something to aspire to, but the point of hesitancy is something very real to consider. How do other people make bold moves with so little certainty of the outcome? And what is it about the potential of success or failure that I'm afraid of?

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    Abundance and letting go

    March 4, 2021

    Battered and bruised but still trying

    October 3, 2019

    An interview with Dayna Del Val, the world’s first Personal Systems Disruptor

    September 7, 2020
  • Personal Writing,  Uncategorized

    I know my calling: Reflecting on the book Limitless

    February 28, 2021 / 2 Comments

    Think about the name of Ms GO's book. Limitless. Without limits. Too often, we put limits even on our free writing, brainstorming and dreaming, as if what we articulate will be seen and judged by others, seen and judged by ourselves. You are allowed to dream as big and wild as you want. In fact, I not only encourage it, I demand (in as much as I can demand you, the unknown reader) you to go all out. The only thing you will "waste" is some ink and paper.

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    And so it begins

    September 2, 2020

    Sweet lemon aid

    May 1, 2020

    When halfway isn’t nearly far enough

    July 25, 2019
  • Personal Writing

    Cross pollinating my recognized expertise

    January 25, 2021 / 0 Comments

    Then & Now When I started as Executive Director of The Arts Partnership in 2010, I was pretty much an absolute nobody. I didn’t come from a family name that mattered in my community, I hadn’t done anything that identified me as a powerhouse and I wasn’t married to someone whose name, title or reputation held any particular significance. In short, I had to build my credibility from the ground up. So I did. I made one phone call after the other, read one leadership book on top of another, drank one seemingly never-ending cup of coffee (eventually moving entirely to tea), introduced myself to one person and the next…

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    The best part of waking up…

    December 21, 2020

    My first mate on the journey

    October 19, 2019

    Two Voices of Hope: Hearing From Us Both a Prologue (video)

    February 2, 2020
  • Personal Writing

    Short & Sweet, aka Keep Going, Dayna!

    January 23, 2021 / 0 Comments

    My next retreat is February 19-21, and there are spaces available. I hope you'll sign up. But if you don't, I'm still going to do the work because I care, it's generous, helpful and absolutely worth the journey--mine and yours. But I can't control your journey, only mine. So I'm here.

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    Putting my money on family

    September 30, 2019

    Taking action, and I’m inviting you to join me

    September 20, 2020

    A series of (seemingly) random fortunate events. But how random were they really?

    June 25, 2020
  • Dr. Marry and Me,  Personal Writing

    Lead from the Outside, ruffled feathers and the attempted sound of silence

    January 16, 2021 / 0 Comments

    This assignment asks us to be vulnerable, honest, brave and willing to both praise and censure ourselves as well as accept praise and censure from others. What could happen in your life if you got honest with yourself and if others were willing to go to a place of loving honesty to really give you the opportunity to reflect and grow as a person? Could you take it? Would you hear it and ponder it, or would you ruffle your feathers and defend your actions?

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    Two Voices of Hope: The Beginning of Now (1a)

    February 1, 2020

    Two Voices of Hope: Up and Down (5c podcast)

    March 5, 2020

    Two Voices of Hope: Second Star to the Right, and Straight on ’til Morning… (8b video)

    March 24, 2020
  • Personal Writing

    Disrupt your personal systems to name and articulate your highest calling

    January 13, 2021 / 3 Comments

      You have dreams you want desperately to pursue. You’re also being pulled in a million different directions, and your plate is likely already full to overflowing. How in the world will you ever figure out how to make those dreams a reality much less take the first step? Through a Personal Systems Disruption retreat! Thank you for providing the platform and the tools for me to disrupt my personal systems, tools to help me define my ‘next,’ for introductions to some amazingly talented, creative, fun, loving people and for affirmations of who I’ve been, who I am, and who I can become. It was a wonderful journey that was…

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    Moving through the dark

    December 20, 2020

    Until this ends, we are all white nationalists

    August 4, 2019

    Two Voices of Hope: Counting Our Blessings, an Epilogue (9a)

    March 28, 2020
  • Personal Writing

    Getting over my own self…again

    January 4, 2021 / 0 Comments

    An important note of digression: the Universe's favorite thing to do to and with me is to wait for me to say the word N-E-V-E-R. "I'll never get married." "I'll never have a full-time job." "I'll never teach." "I'll never..."

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    Winning the game

    October 31, 2020

    Perspective flipping

    October 7, 2019

    Really Facebook? THIS is what you’re choosing to focus on today?

    January 12, 2021
  • Dr. Marry and Me,  Personal Writing

    2020: my year in review

    December 31, 2020 / 4 Comments

    Beyond the devastation (and our late in the year diagnosis), COVID was a gift for Dr Marry and me. I closed down my offices in March and have been working from home ever since. That means Dr Marry and I had all spring and summer and much of the fall together since his job was also a hybrid of in-person and virtual teaching. We walked and biked more than we ever have. I baked copious amounts of bread and went back to my pre-full time job delight of searching for and trying fun new recipes.

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    The luck of the Irish

    April 9, 2019

    Two Voices of Hope: Second Star to the Right, and Straight on ’til Morning… (8b video)

    March 24, 2020

    Winning the game

    October 31, 2020
  • Personal Writing

    Moving through the dark

    December 20, 2020 / 8 Comments

    But the long, languid days of summer aren't where we are in the calendar. Instead, we're one day away from the shortest, darkest day of the year. And I'm up early, in the cold, pale light of the moon, wondering what I can take from this time. How can I reframe this season to be a lesson versus an obstacle, not just for myself but for anyone reading this?

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    There is a season

    April 7, 2020

    7-card stud, Texas hold ’em, 5-card draw…

    January 29, 2021

    A Thanksgiving to remember

    November 28, 2019
  • Dr. Marry and Me,  Personal Writing

    Gratitude goes a long way

    December 5, 2020 / 2 Comments

    I woke up trapped between wondering why I'm spending such an inordinate amount of time on these "side gigs" that don't seem to be getting me anywhere and hoping against hope that the Universe is busy paying attention to someone (anyone!) else and misses my doubts and despair so that I don't get smited (smote?) for questioning its pace or interest in my dream. Ugh!

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    Two Voices of Hope: Three Years, and I’m Still Counting My Blessings (7b video)

    March 17, 2020

    A potential shooter, curtains and my early morning habits disrupted

    January 23, 2021

    Looking ahead to 2021

    January 1, 2021
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