Domonique Bertolucci is the best-selling author of Your Best Life: the ultimate guide to creating the life you want and the closely guarded secret
 behind some of the country’s most successful people.

As a 'successpert', Domonique has built a reputation as the go-to-girl for quotes, comments and expert insights on a wide range of personal development topics. She has given over 100 interviews across all forms of media including television, radio, print and digital media; more than 10 million people have seen, read or heard her advice.

Domonique divides her time between Sydney and London. She lives with her husband and young daughter, and in her spare time can be found at the cinema, practicing yoga and keeping up the great Italian tradition of feeding the people you love.

Sunday, June 22, 2008

Off The Shelf

Former model Domonique Bertolucci left a top job and a man who loved her to follow her dreams and write her first book.

Q.You wrote Your Best Life. What hinders people from living the best life they can?
A. Not knowing what that life would look like, not having a plan to get there and not being able to stick to the plan they've created. I think people often forget it's a choice and they can choose to live life any way they like. They fail to realise they're choosing to be in a job or a relationship.

Q. Why do they stay if they're not happy?
A. They get caught up in limiting their beliefs about what they believe is possible for the narrrower than it really is and they're held back by that. People are alos afraid of failure and to try something new. It's also a lack of self-belief that you can create what you want and also that you deserve to have it.

Q. Are you living your best life?
A. Absolutely. One important thing to remeber is that it's not just a specific destination: it's not just about where we're headed, but how we live each and every day. For me that means living in a city I love and doing work I love and having a fulfilling relationship and being around people whose company I enjoy and doing yoga and eating well. But for others it will be something completely different.

Q. What role does material success play in happiness?
A. Possessions can give us great pleasure. I don't suggest you need to give them up to find happiness.

Q. What did you have to do to get your best life?
A. I was feeling successful and not satisfied. My life looked great on paper, but I wasn't feeling fulfilled. I was working in the corporate sector in the UK and I was in a relationship with someone who loved me but who wasn't right for me. People would say: "But he loves you. He'd make a good husband' but we weren't the right combination. It was having that self-belief to say: "I believe I can have a soulmate and I'm not going to settle for less than that."

Q. How do you define happiness?
A. I think everyone experiences if differentlyand it's when we're living in alignment with our values. The things that matter most to us are what we are experiencing. That might be freedom for one person, or security for another.

Vanessa Santer
MX, June 21st, 2006
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