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Be Unabashedly Proud Of What You Positively Need
Danielle LaPorte, October 17, 2010
On the winding road to your True Nature, you're going to come across some darkly self deprecating apologies that may disguise themselves as selfless and evolved flexibilities. My own cliffs to white hot truth are littered with them. Like...
- "I'm sorry for being so pointedly opinionated. Sorry about that {insert sheepish wince.} I really need to take the edge off."
- "I'm sorry, but I so crave laughter and you're inability to catch sarcasm and my goofy charm is breaking my heart, but maybe I just need to be more understanding and flexible -- sorry, I'll just buck up and quietly find the humour in things...on my own. It's okay. I'll just be laughing to myself over here in the corner."
- "Oh and about my need to be adored...yeah, sorry about that. It must be so annoying that I love to be loved. I'll do you a favour and lower my expectations. I mean, I should be able to get by on less love by now, I am a grown up afterall."
Are You Positively Addicted?
Danielle LaPorte, October 2, 2010
So here’s my new favourite concept: positive addiction. I just love the sound of it. It’s righteous and honest ... a great combo. “I’m hooked, but it’s all good. No, really. I’m addicted, but it is positively healthy.” Like it.
A total high
I was talking to a friend today (okay, it was my shrink) about my almost – no, my definitely insatiable need for the entrepreneurial rush. “It’s a total high for me.” I explained. “Going from zero to sixty. I mean, the very definition of velocity makes me horny {distance over time}. I love having an idea when I’m walking the dog late at night and then in about six weeks actually making money from that late night glimmering, or seeing it on paper. And Christ, when I can help other people get a rush on it... it's pure juicy juice. I need that juice. Want...more...juice.”
Read More...What Would LOVE Do?
Danielle LaPorte, September 18, 2010
We crave it. We die for it. We try to pay for it. We aspire, we mire, we miss the mark. In the unending, coiling, incessant pursuit of being right and good enough to find love and get love and give love, we forget about the very nature of love itself.
Love gets buried beneath political correctness and spirituality; behind "I" statements and neutrality; tradition, company policy, apparently healthy boundaries and self protection; and commonsense. The understandable, habitual structures of thought that keep our egos from being derailed can effectively keep love on the other side of the tracks.
What It Means To Forgive
Danielle LaPorte, September 11, 2010
"...holding no prisoner to guilt, we become free."
- The Course In Miracles
Someone recently asked me, "Have you forgiven so and so for such and such?"
And I did the puppy head tilt, "Huh?"
This question throws me for a loop.
"Well...I don't really feel like it's my place to forgive them," I replied.
Who Is Your Support Group?
Danielle LaPorte, September 4, 2010
I felt it shelter to speak to you.
- Emily Dickinson
We gather in a group to be witnessed, to be supported, and to be both equalized and elevated in our struggles, gifts and ambitions. Common ground is very fertile ground -- it is, what Emerson calls, “...the common heart of which all sincere conversation is worship.” Where two or more are joined with the same intention, grace intensifies and solutions multiply. Belongingness heals and nourishes with its affirmative recognition that we are not alone. Simultaneously, we are able to experience our unity and our uniqueness.
Who hears you? Whose greatness do you foster in return?
What Failures Are You Grateful For?
Danielle LaPorte, August 5, 2010
Success and failure go hand in hand.
"The things you are fired for are often the things that in later life you will be celebrated and given lifetime achievement awards for!" Francis Ford Coppola was canned for writing an "odd" and awkward script for the now legendary film Patton. The film was shelved, took years to make, and then went on to win an Oscar for best screenplay. Meanwhile, Coppola was working on The Godfather and was also on the verge of being canned from that film. He figures the glory from the Oscar saved his butt from being fired from The Godfather... which, as we all know, went down in movie making history.
Read More...Meet Someone Exactly Where They Are
Danielle LaPorte, July 25, 2010
"You can’t stay in your corner of the forest waiting for others to come to you.
You have to go to them sometimes."
- Winnie the Pooh
She has a tendency to panic. Makes it hard to trust her.
He is chronically greedy. Grew up dirt poor. Money is everything.
She is a channel of pure wisdom, a naturally gifted seer.
He is a genius, able to connect vast intellectual concepts.
She is fragile, new, and green to the concept of cause and affect.
He is angry, wounded, perpetually antagonistic.
Giving Compliments, World Peace, and the Warm Fuzzies
Danielle LaPorte, July 18, 2010
I want to start a Compliment Revolution. There are a few revolutions I'd like to ignite, actually, but this one is super easy. If you're with me (go ahead, shout it now, I'm with you!). I think we could change the world this very week. So I'm declaring this the week of Global Compliments. (Someone call Hallmark and the Nobel Peace Prize committee.)
Read More...How To Turn Anxiety Into Power
Danielle LaPorte, July 13, 2010
Tummy trembles. Brain fuzz. That discombobulating feeling that tells you you're not quite sure what you should be doing but you know you should be doing something to keep your act together. Anxiety. Sometimes it slips away with a few deep breaths, other times you need to beat it off with a stick or some little white pills.
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