Posts Tagged as: presence
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...
self hatred: beneath sugar-coated criticism + self improvement
Self hatred. Could there be a heavier, shame-soaked, cringe-inducing concept? Hating yourself. Hatred. Hate of self. You hating…you. Park that thought for a minute. You’re self-referencing. You’re successful (and you’re bright enough to know that that’s a relative term.) You’re a generally wide-awake, highly confident, compassionate, secure citizen of the collective. You know who you...
meet someone exactly where they are
“You can’t stay in your corner of the forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.” - Winne 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...
right ambition
To live in an evolutionary spirit means to engage with full ambition and without any reserve in the structure of the present, and yet to let go and flow into a new structure when the right time has come. - Eric Jantsch
presence of the heart
Presence is a rare quality in a world of 20-second sound bites, nonstop stimulation, and gnawing anxiety. What underlies presence? Clearly, it is not intellectual prowess or Mensa would rule the world. More than once we all have been bored to tears by the intellectual aloofness of someone disconnected from everyday reality, adrift in a...
be still and give
To meet everything and everyone through stillness instead of mental noise is the greatest gift you can offer to the universe. - Eckhart Tolle
- 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
- i renovated the temple! fresh site + new treats! for everyone!
- in honour of the fact that life is short
- focus, failure, assumption antidotes + surprise success: january roundup
- what is your relationship to…life?
- how to love the inevitable pain of getting focused. it hurts so good.
- the manifesto of encouragement
- the “What I Trust List”. why you need one, and how to do it.
- 20 personal money practices that got me to a place of grooving prosperity. (part 1)
- the grand pep talk: decide to rise (refer to this when in doubt, or sick & tired.)
- The Subtle & Abiding Sense of Failure Angel. Know her?
