Go(o)D Morning . . .

Good morning,
This is God.

I will be handling

All of your

Problems today.

I will not need

Your help, so have

A miraculous day.

~ Wayne Dyer The Power of Intention

Dear Ones,

Ever get in the crazy spot? You know . . . the one where you are trying to be the master choreographer, the master controller? And like, you have no idea how you're going to get all your sh!# done?

I have been there almost daily for the past couple of weeks . . . until this morning. And guess what? I got this message in my inbox and whew!

Today, I had a shift . . . I decided that I want to engage in my day and not obsess about every thing I need to do.

I want to let go and let God. It takes practice. and breathing...

How about you?

Let me know in the comments.

Lot of LoVe!

DAna

Chloe's SongPrayer

Hey All--

My daughter has a beautiful voice, and wanted to offer up this prayer for the Boston Marathon bombing victims.

Oh my.

Makes me cry.

Blessings,

Dana

Forget about it!

Did you seriously know elephants could swim?

heLLo aMaziNg fun & free following!

Good news! I am guest-blogging on The Daily Love! Check it out and leave a comment: Hello & Goodbye.

I've been checking out and writing about Cherie Carter-Scott's Ten Rules for being Human for the past week or so. It has been an amazing journey, and I've been reminded of so much (stuff I had forgotten . . . see rule 10!)

Sadly, we just have the last left to consider:

10. You will forget all this.

 "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! And--we forget the lessons we have already learned sometimes, . . . and that's just fine! The Universe will send us reminders.

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---'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!? I think sometimes we for-get that judging is really about US--not about the person we're judging. Has this happened to you? Let me know in the comments!

Love you and love EverYoNE!

;0) dAnA-drOpLeT (that's what my bro used to call me . . .)

I am responsible for my happiness . . . Whew!

 heLLo aMaziNg fun & free following!

I've been checking out and writing about Cherie Carter-Scott's Ten Rules for being Human for the past week or so. It has been an amazing journey, and I've been reminded of so much (stuff I had forgotten . . . see rule 10!)

Sadly, we just have three left to consider and they are:

8. What you make of your life is up to you. You have all the tools and resources you need. What you do with them is up to you. The choice is yours.
9. Your answers lie within you. The answers to life's questions lie within you. All you need to do is look, listen, and trust.
10. you will forget all this.

Last summer I blogged about my Personal Codes of Truth for a week or so,--I even wrote them in chalk in my backyard driveway--and one biggie was "I am responsible for my own happiness." Interesting that we get reminders JUST WHEN WE NEED THEM, huh? Kinda sounds like rule ten, huh?

What you make of your life is up to you.

You have all the tools and resources you need.

What you do with them is up to you.

The choice is yours.

Most of my Personal Codes of Truth are about me taking back my own power and listening the Universe guide me everyday. Cool, 'cuz that guidance is inside my heart and my gut if I can get quiet enough to listen to it! So, that's actually helped me become more independent and responsible 'cuz I really can't blame others for my reality, my relationships, my stories, or my choices. In other words,  I am responsible for my own happiness!

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Here's a cool piece about hApPiNeSs:

Tell everyone you know:

"My happiness depends on me, so you're off the hook."

And then demonstrate it.

Be happy, no matter what they're doing.

Practice feeling good, no matter what.

And before you know it,

you will not give anyone else responsibility for the way you feel--
and then, you'll love them all.

Because the only reason you don't love them,

is because you're using them as your excuse to not feel good. 

~Esther Hicks speaker and author

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Like the quote says above, I get to choose where my energy and attention goes! Personally, I prefer the good stuff to the crap, and that means appreciating what's right in front of me. For example, 

• right now I am eating my favorite treat--a delicious, icy coconut popsicle!--how lucky am I? (BTW it's almost three in the morning!!!!! oh well!)
• and, I get to go for a nice walk in the morning 'cuz my mom's here to watch my kiddos--life is good!--
• and, I'm doing one of my fav activities--writing to all of you! what could be better? 
• and, I got a fabulous text from my daughter, Chloe, that said: "Sup yo this is Chloe I love you so much you are the best mom in the whole world I love you It's cool"--that's the awesomest message a mom could ever get!

Any-hoo, good thing I'm paying attention to all the yummy  juicy great stuff in front of me! I'm learning so much right now--in life, business school, relationships, and well, in everything! 

I personally believe we all have a birthright to be amazingly happy---life doesn't have to be dramatic and hard all the time (although we all have our ups and downs...). 

And personally, I think being dramatic and StReSsEd OuT is, well, eXhAustIng!

Just remember that when it gets tough, we can come out the other side with more tools and choices, if we choose to learn from the crappy stuff.  How do you stay in your happy place? Leave an amazing comment or story and let me know!

BuCkeTs o' LoVe!

;0)  dana

Are You Living in Your Fate or your Destiny?

My Destiny

04.16.13.

"Your destination in this life . . . the reality of who you ultimately are — who you can become through all your activated options — is referred to as your destiny.   

The process of destiny has forever . . . the awakening however, will take place in a single given moment . . . welcome its arrival with all your heart and with every breath.

The journey of a human life is to travel from where you are — your fate — to who you are — your destiny.  

Most people consciously or unconsciously distract themselves from living in either of these locations. They are neither where they are, or who they are, but a chaotic mixture of being distracted from the actualities of fate and doubting the possibilities of destiny. 

All this while life — patiently and dutifully — waits on some parallel track . . . waiting for consciousness to awaken to at least one of these opportunities."        

~Guru Singh

Hello All--

I am still making sense of this amazing message, but when I read Guru Singh's post, I am excited to be reminded that I have a destiny that is my very own (even though I don't quite know what it is yet--but I have a pretty good idea about what it is . . . problem is, it takes a pretty big leap of faith for me to get there, and I don't feel quite ready). Nobody else in the planet has the same destiny as mine, because they are not me, Dana Lynne Curry.

And when I think about fate--I think about my daily egoic human existence--where I feel like I am full of baggage, limitations, and doubt--I feel "lower than." But my ego also puffs me up, and tells me that I am smarter, more valuable, righter (made up word), and "better than" others. This is all a bunch of BS; we are all ONE

So if "where I am"--is my fate--and "where I want to get to" (who I am)--is my destiny,

• What can I do? 
• What can I do to awaken my consciousness? 
• Especially knowing that it's not on my timeline? 

Do I simply wait for my awakening, and create all the ripe possibilities for that to happen by taking care of myself in the meantime, by:

• eating well
• sleeping well
• taking care of my body
• speaking my truth
• surrounding myself with like-minded people 
• meditating, doing yoga
• living in the moment

What has worked for you? How do you enter into your destiny, even if you're not sure what it is? How do you embrace you human-ness and play with fate in the choices you make?

LOve you!

Dana