Your Time Starts Now

Domonique Bertolucci personal coach and executive coach

My earliest memory is... my youngest brother being born. He's four years younger than me and I remember just bursting with love for him, simply because he was my brother.

At school I... got in trouble for talking too much. If you look back at what your teachers were always telling you not to do at school, it's a great insight into your strengths, talents or passions.

I wish I'd never worn... fluorescent pink in the 80's. Or, for that matter, fluorescent orange, blue and green.

I'm very bad at... anything that requires hand-eye co-ordination. When I was nine, I was sent home from school with a note for my mother: "Domonique is very good at reading. Tonight for homework would you please practise catching."

My mother always told me... I could be anything I wanted to be as long as it made me happy.

My father always told me... I could be anything I wanted to be as long as it was a lawyer!

My last meal would be... my nonna's gnocchi.

At home I cook... to keep up the wonderful Italian tradition of feeding the people you love.

I don't like talking about... politics. I was taught: "If you don't have anything nice to say..."

When I was a child I wanted to ... be Wonder Woman.

My favourite gadget is... my Palm Treo. It helps me be in two places as once and is the closest thing I've found to a time machine.

The book that changed my life is... Wishcraft by Barbara Sher. I read it during my quarter-life crisis and it helped me to stop worrying about what I was going to do with my life and just start living it.

It's not fashionable, but I love... wearing woolly socks to bed.

If only I could... sing. Unfortunately I'm not tone deaf, so I know precisely how bad I am.

I'm always being asked... if I ever have a bad day. Of course I have, but what matters is how fast you can recover from one. My recovery time is pretty good.

Friends say I am... the most positive person they know.

I often wonder... why more people don't realise that you really do create your own reality. You can have everything you truly what in life, if you're willing to work for it.

Sydney Morning Herald, Good Weekend Magazine, 28th October 2006