Wave Ur FreAk fLaG!

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  "Live life fully while you're here. 

Experience everything.

Take care of yourself and your friends.

Have fun, be crazy, be weird.

Go out and screw up!

You're going to anyway,

so you might as well enjoy the process.

Take the opportunity to learn from your mistakes:

find the cause of your problem and eliminate it.

Don't try to be perfect;

just be an excellent example of being human." 

- Anthony Robbins

Do you embrace and live fully in your craZiNeSS? One thing I loVE about the quote from AR is that he encourages us to be super goofy and fUn! When I was doing the spelling bee last week, I was the old person, and I was the only one who dressed up--and I felt a bit awkward, to say the least. But I was so happy and excited to be a part, even though I felt a bit weird.

That can be amazingly scary for folks when they worry a lot about what other people think about them. What I've learned in the last few years, is that if I am play-acting and trying to iMpReSS others about how awesome I am, and I am trying to be a certain way--I am not being truthful 'cuz when I'm trying, it's not me. When I'm me, I don't usually have to try (. . . well, unless I'm in a situation where I would normally do the whole people pleasing BS and I am consciously trying NOT to do it...)

Anyway, being hu(wo)man and ImPerFecKt is so awesome 'cuz I am not TRyIng so hard to control what everyone thinks of me (or what I make up @ what they think of me) aND (bonus) I can relax!

Totally takes the pressure off!

And I can do loving things for myself despite when I screw up---and I am more okay when other people screw up--I can be more loving to them! 

It's all good! 

Here's my new secret: (shhhhhhh . . . please tell EverYonE!)

peOplE

arE

dOing

aNd

BeIng

tHeir 

Best...

and sometimes their best totally sucks to us . . .

(believe me, I get it . . . I've been there!)

BUT ALSO CONSIDER THIS:

Don't you want other pEEpS

to ASSume

you

are always doing and being your bEsT?

So, I challenge you to

PAY IT FORWARD.

sOmEtImeS, (& . . . don't tell nE1 . . .) my best SUCKS! SUCKS HUGE! aND I don'T always know why! Sometimes, my best is to get my butt out of bed and gO pEE, pEEps---'cuz I'm sad, or mad, or SUpEr sTuCk! (but not very often, anymore thankfully . . . )

AnyWay, hope you get what I mEan. When have you given someone else a miss, and let them off the hook of your JUDGEMENT!?

My Mother's Day Gifts!

Dear Peeps;

Thought I'd share with you what I got from my daughter Chloe for Mother's Day (see above). It's called a Wordle, and my daughter made it in the shape of a shoe (we both LOVE shoes!) with words inside that she used to describe me. I was so surprised!

Here are the words she used for ME, her super lucky Momma!--

• Mom
• fun
• helpful
• amazing
• lovable
• daring
• leader
• beautiful
• Irish
• spiritual
• pretty
• exciting
• weird
• silly
• crazy
• awesome
• caring
• special
• nice
• funny 
• brave
• loving 
• creative

I'm gonna check out this list on the days when I feel like a crappy Mom--and remind myself that my daughter thinks I'm all of these awesome things (on a good day . . . ), and that my best is pretty darn good (even on a bad day . . .). 

My son, Max, made me this card. It says:

Happy Mother's Day!

From: Max

Dear Mom,

I luv you all of the time, (except when you're being a *hoverbot.)

I heart you!                                                                                   --Max

*hoverbot is our code word for when Max feels like I am "hovering" or micromanaging him too much--like a helicopter parent! It's been a great tool for me to know when to back off a bit.
p.s. Max told me that he secretly still loves me even when I am a hoverbot.

What gifts! I'm so grateful . . . Thanks, Chloe & Max!

Love you to the moon and back . . . ;0)

Mom

aLL is LoVe . . .

***********************************************************

The evolution of all spiritual life,
Dana Lynne,

includes 3 absolutes:

1. You will love. 
2. You will be loved. 
3. The former will eventually be 

far more important to you than the latter. 

Grasshopper, 
The Universe
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GuEsS wHaT? The LoVe is in you! I used to think that the love I needed was going to come from someone or something outside myself (and it very often does, and that's a huge bOnUs!), but when I want to feel love, I have to remember that I have to love me first and connect in with my Source!

If something's missing in my life, it's missing 'cuz I am NOT GIVING IT TO MYSELF (. . . and, at first, that totally stinks to realize because it means that we have to STOP complaining about everybody else not giving us what we need, and figure out how to give it to ourselves . . . which is actually un-sucky, and powerful in a cool way...)

FYI: just want you to know that at first, this idea really bugged me (and pissed me off, actually), 'cuz it meant that I am in charge (and I have to stop blaming others for me!), but, at the same time, the good news is that I AM IN CHARGE . . . of ME! And, why would I want to give my sUpErPoWerS away, anyway? (so we can stay "victimized" and not take responsibility? hmmnnnn . . . sounds miserable!) 

. . . which leads me back to the fact that I am in charge of my own stories and my own 

hApPiNeSs! 

Here's a cool grownup blogger who has some ideaS:

30 tHinGs to Start dOinG fOr YoU!

Seems kind of weird that in order to receive love, we have to love, but it has to start with us loving ourselves before we can love others.

What's important is that we love ourselves, and then we love others with no expectations.

We just love because it feels good . . . and right . . . and true.

For me, I know that I am loving, and to keep myself from being loving or restrict myself from being loving feels very difficult, really tough . . . and well, NOT ME.

Love is always bestowed as a gift –

freely, willingly and without expectation.

We don’t love to be loved;

we love to love.

~Leo Buscaglia

ALL is WELL! 
ALL is LoVe . . .

;) Dana

drEaM bIG, mY LoVe . . .

Dreams come true, Dana Lynne, that's what they do.
The only variable is when.

For the slow approach: Resist. Attach. Insist. Deny. Stop. Second guess.

Whine. Argue. Defend. Protest. Cry. Struggle. And ask others, when you

know the answer yourself.

For the quick approach: Visualize. Pretend. Prepare. Dodge. Roll. Serpentine.

Do not waiver over intentions, but over methods. Show up, even when nothing

happens. And give thanks in advance.

You knew that,
The Universe

Remember when you were a kid and the entire world was your playground and EVERYTHING was a delicious possibility?  . . . when you wanted to save the whales, rule the planet, and invent candy that grew from trees?

Remember the crazy s#!t you used to dream about? . . . when everything was magical and new?

Guess what? . . . it still is. 

Nothing changed, except you grew up and forgot about the magic.

It's time to grow back 

d

    o

        w

            n

and reclaim your place among the stars.

I challenge you to remember your dreams as a child, write them down, and begin to believe in them again: 

Visualize. Pretend. Prepare. 
Dodge. Roll. Serpentine. 
Do not waiver over intentions, but over methods. 
Show up, even when nothing happens. 
And give thanks in advance.

Love from the dreamtime!

Dana

WhOLeHeaRteD fUn!

Dear Readers;

When I was walking today with one of my besties, we were brainstorming about well, life in general. We decided that we would like to eat good food and enjoy ourselves--that simple!

We were thinking about some ways we could have wholehearted fun (instead of dropping down into drama). 

Here's an initial list of what we came up with:

• go to a bookstore
• learn to sew with a sewing machine
• play double solitaire
• take a walk in nature
• go to Valleyfair (amusement park)
• cook delicious food
• go canoeing
• write a love note and send it snail-mail
• color with sparkly pens and smelly markers
• attend a yoga class

How do you have wholehearted fun?

Leave a comment and share on the BLOG!

Hearts!

Dana