is it love if you’re all cranky when you give it?
I’ve looked at love from both sides now From give and take, and still somehow It’s love’s illusions I recall I really don’t know love at all - Joni Mitchell I’ve been searching the archive of my emotions, looking for the root source of the notion that love is easy. Romantic comedies and new age...
the “What I Trust List”. why you need one, and how to do it.
Before a big gig or juicy-charged op moment I do this trust exercise. I started doing it on airplanes en route to what I thought would be my destiny (even tho’ I don’t believe in destiny.) After my strategic wheels have been torqued, and I’ve imagined what the ideal outcome might feel like, I drill...
The Subtle & Abiding Sense of Failure Angel. Know her?
Ry Cooder is considered to be one of the greatest bluesmen of all time. Yet, on more than one occasion, with a sold out concert and multiple encores, he asked promoters to refund the audience their money because he felt, “I could have been better.” I have a painter friend whose art sells for $10,000...
in honour of the fact that life is short
wear your white shirts. get them pressed. use your good dishes — everyday. shave on weekends. do not wait for special occasions. do not tuck your best away in the drawers, in the back of the closet, in your heart. don’t wait for holidays or invitations. declare that your today is the special occasion. call...
how to love the inevitable pain of getting focused. it hurts so good.
Being focused — on your goal, your task, your purpose — is a key ingredient of success. We know this. If focusing was easy, everyone would being doing it. This is where a lot of motivational ra-rah fails us: “Just focus. Zero in, prioritize, it’s easy when you …just focus.” True, things do get exponentially...
quick brilliance, ecstatic sex, fear extinguishing + a prayer for great expectations: my december round-up
Here’s my best from the twelfth month of 2011: How to accomplish great things quickly: when quick n’ dirty is totally genius: fast can make something that lasts. Don’t censor your passion in the name of practicality. Believe. Trust. Lock into your deadlines, SET THAT BAR HIGHER AND FOCUS…
18 things i’ve never mentioned about myself
1. I think karma is malleable. You can change it. The universe is not tit for tat and God is not keeping score. At least not like that. 2. I once believed that I was destined to marry Steve Winwood. I was wildly convinced that he was The One for me and shamelessly told everyone...
3 conversations on fear wrangling, entrepreneuring your life, and as always, love
I’m in the lull time between Christmas and New Year’s. That time when it’d be nice if we just all sat by the fire eating cookies, plumping up and getting sugar-stoned before Kris Carr’s 21 Day Cleanse — which I will be ON. Some really hot things will be happening here in 2012. Until then,...
a prayer for expectation addicts: show up. shine. let it go.
I have willed stuff into being. Lot’s of it. Will will willing willfulness. And if you dared to tell me (brave soul, you), in the midst of my willfulness, that I should let go of my expectations, (gasp!) I would have gone stone cold, or snortle-laughed you off, or pressed delete. Because I thought expectation...
falling into your joy: a winter solstice love letter with soundtrack
Last time I wrote you all letterly-like, it was summer. It was my first showing of letterly love. And I was laying out bits of my soul to dry in the sun. If all calendars were destroyed and I spun ‘round like a Sufi, I might guess that seven years passed in this one. Last...
- She has the knowledge you need to succeed. What she has to say is what our spirits need to hear.
— Martha Beck | Steering By Starlight - ... ignites the mind in ways that could change your career and life.
— Scott Belsky | Making Ideas Happen - Danielle's passion leaps off the page, and reading a few chapters of this book will ignite you into action.
— Gretchen Rubin | The Happiness Project - ...the revolution you've been waiting for, it will shake-up and wake-up every aspect of your life.
— Kris Carr | Crazy Sexy Diet - ... the new, bad-ass Artist's Way.
— Linda Sivertsen | Generation Green - ... shows us how to do what the world tells us we can't: be unapologetic about our deepest desires.
— Gabrielle Bernstein | Spirit Junkie - The Fire Starter Sessions is a revelation. A virtual road map to more engaged state of being.
— Jonathan Fields | Uncertainty - Money, failure, power, appreciation — The Fire Starter Sessions doesn't leave anything out of the mix.
— Barbara Stanny | Overcoming Underearning - Danielle is one serious Fire Starter, and you'll be one too after reading this masterpiece.
— Chris Guillebeau | The Art of Non-Conformity
there’s more in the hot shop
including freebies
- how do you want it all to feel? sensuous goal refinement + emotional magnetizing
- in honour of the fact that life is short
- i renovated the temple! fresh site + new treats! for everyone!
- focus, failure, assumption antidotes + surprise success: january roundup
- how to conduct a great interview: punctuations + emotion
- the manifesto of encouragement
- what is your relationship to…life?
- how to love the inevitable pain of getting focused. it hurts so good.
- the grand pep talk: decide to rise (refer to this when in doubt, or sick & tired.)
- 20 personal money practices that got me to a place of grooving prosperity. (part 1)
