the burning question series

Once a week or so, I ask a Burning Question — from the soul deep to trash frivolity. (Actually, I’m not that frivolous. Which doesn’t mean I’m trashy, anyway…)

I answer the question, and I invite you to do the same, either on your on blog or on Facebook.

Generally, I think people should ask more questions. Of themselves. Of each other. Questions are doorways that lead to higher consciousness… or pop culture trivia. Both are good. Join in.


If you want to run a Burning Question on your site:

1) Please lift a badge from below and drop it into your post or side bar. This is optional, of course. But it’s good karma.

2) If you don’t want to pimp out your post with a badge, please mention with a link, that the Q was inspired by DanielleLaPorte.com. Again, optional good karma.

3) If you’d like to link back to my site, we’ll tell the world that you too are pensive and thoughtful, and they can check out your answer to the Burning Question. Link love. You can do so at the bottom of each post I publish.

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What do you want… that you already have?

Make a list of what you desire. Easy, right? More love, money, time, tenderness, play, money, comfort, power, freedom, culture, entertainment. You can get really specific with particular areas of your life, like, “I want to laugh more with my man.” Or “I want an additional $500 every pay period.” Or, “I want to spend...

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Videos! Questions! Worksheets! Your Creative Genius on Fire!

Things are heating up with my Huffington Post gig: 30 Days To Fire Up Your Creative Genius. Every day offers a new question + a short sermon-video, and some days have additional worksheet content — which I especially love. Here’s a taster: The whole series is being collected, HERE, on my Huffington Post page. Here’s...

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What money resentments do you have…that you could let go of?

Rory was one of those big thinkers with the best of intentions. Lots of friends. Plenty of ideas. Sweet soul that she is, her money situation was always a mess. Rory and I were talking about earning money and I slipped this question in, ’cause I just had a feelin’: “So, where in your life...

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30 Days To Fire Up Your Creative Genius. You + Me On The Huffington Post.

We’re taking a field trip for today’s Burning Question! I signed your permission slip and packed you a video snack. I am thrilled to announce: 30 Days to Fire Up Your Creative Genius with yours truly on The Huffington Post.       Videos! You asked for ‘em! You’ll get ‘em! Everyday for a month....

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How do you say what you do? (Give your self credit.)

I did some business and marketing strategy with a woman who introduced herself simply as “an athletic coach.” So I figured she was a freelance coach with a few local clients. It turned out that she actually had a crew of coaches working under her that she had trained in her own licensable methodology. She...

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What’s your favourite piece of advice that you’ve been given?

It was the first time I ever had to fire someone. I was working for The Body Shop, Canada. I had good reason to believe some staff were pilfering the Peppermint Footcream and for other loser-related reasons, they needed to be sent walking. I had a great boss, Clea. I still think of her management...

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What’s your relationship to excitement?

We get really excited in our house. About everything. THREE MORE SLEEPS ‘TIL WE GET GUINEA PIGS!!! PEROGIES FOR DINNER!!! OPRAH INTERVIEWED LADY GAGA!!! NEW SOAP!!! MAIL!!! We do count-downs. And we imagine stuff in great detail. We lay out special outfits. We cheer. We get excited about so much so often vastly because there...

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What’s Your Super Hero Name?

My superhero name is Agent Now. I particularly like the alliteration en Francais: L’Agent Maintenant.     My special power is seeing into the now so deep that I can see the past and the future. I laugh a lot because there is always a reason to laugh. I cry a lot because there is...

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what would you like to stop doing?

When someone has the good sense and conviction to stop doing what’s not working for them, well, it calls for a national holiday. The brilliance of simplification needs to be celebrated!   It often goes like this: I’m going to stop: “Being stingy with myself.” “Worrying what others will think of me and just go...

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what boat do you need to burn? a testimony to your future

There’s a story my friend Pasha told me about about a mythic band of magic-loving Irish folk. Feeling the call for newness, they would forge out to settle on a new island. Necessarily, they would make the journey by ship. When they arrived to their next land they would unpack — and then promptly burn...

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what do you want to revolutionize?

My heart has a long list of things of things that I would like someone else to revolutionize. Like healthcare. Everyone should have it, free; we should focus on prevention not reaction; and we should treat the cause, not the symptoms; emotions should be part of the healing model; I could go on, except, I...

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what’s one dumb thing that you used to believe in?

I used to buy into the whole concept of The One. You know…The One…your loverly soulmate. All perfectly cut to fit your mold. In sync with your values, kisses like a lover should kiss, finishes your sentences, can read your mind with such accuracy that they know exactly what to say, what to get you...

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what’s your purpose for money? this week’s burning question

{Excerpted from The FIRE STARTER SESSIONS, SESSION 13: Money: More is more. Enough is plenty. GET YOUR FREE SESSION HERE. AND SERIOUS PRE-ORDER TREATS ARE HERE!} Beyond the basics of food, shelter, and health, what do you need money for? Does beauty matter? Does comfort matter? Does stability have great meaning for you, or the...

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how do you want it all to feel? sensuous goal refinement + emotional magnetizing

Feelings are magnetic. So it goes that if you generate certain feelings — and you have the power to create any feeling you desire — then you increase the power of your emotional magnetism. But we need to limber up, loosen the images and adjectives encrusted on our goals and most-desired states. It helps to...

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