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Daily | June 26th, 2008 by Danielle LaPorte

    Leadership. Child birth.

    On Becoming a LeaderCarrie says: Leadership. I just completed a business course and know more about becoming a leader. I love this quote from Warren Bennis, “Great leaders have no interest proving themselves but an abiding interest in expressing themselves.”

    The Business of Being BornDanielle says: Only 25 US States allow midwives to handle home births. I find this appalling. Read more on our blog.
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    You have to let your adult children go...even if they are still in college. Remember they are using their skills, what you taught them are just primary building blocks, compared to what they have to endure and become as an adult.

    Just be proud!
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    Children. Friends stayed last week with a 5-year-old and a 9-month-old, and my admiration for mums and dads shot up to the heavens. Aside from the usual balancing act of relationship, work, travel, mother/fathering, and the self, this couple has raised two incredible kids - the 5-year-old was more polite and charming than most adults I meet. I tip my hat in humbleness to all mums and dads out there who are doing their best to raise our next generation.
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    Let me be the one to toss in a weird fact (because I adore accumulating weird facts): kerosene and jet fuel are basically the same thing. Helicopters use it too. I always thought jet fuel was dangerously flammable but apparently, in comparison to ordinary gasoline, it's not. I am not sure when this information will come in handy . . . but you never know, right?
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    I have learned more about what I want in a man and that I am in title to A. a man who makes me blossom and be the best self I can be ( this regards my friends as well) . I will be with people who makes me feel good about who I am am.
    B. He shall treat me with respect and as equal ( this I take for granted) C. Be a gentleman ( every woman loves to be treated like a queen once in a while ie. open doors, bring you coffe etc:) sounds lush doesnt it? Well, why should you settle for anything less. I have learned to raise my standards, and frankly so should you! I think we all should. It feels very liberating! Wish for the stars!
    All this came down to my meeting with a truly handsome man at a meeting. He was very good looking and a true gentleman. He was polite and made me feel oh so comfortable, in other words he made me shine like I never done before. That came as a revelation, that people can make me feel that good. I have people I am friendly with, and family ( oh yeah, the joy of family, right?) that makes me feel really bad about my self. Now the bar is raised and that is so liberating. I feel that I am an my pat now, where I should be. Life is a journey, and i will not yet againg get caught up in the destinations. Phew and God bless:)
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    To truly be in the moment. To delight in and fully engaged in each activity. Important discovery with this revelation: time slows down so there is more time to do things. Interestingly, I find I set fewer daily goals for myself, yet am far more satisfied and content at day's end. Truly a remarkable gift of knowing.
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    Using an airbrush gun!?
    I'm creating a new line of hand-painted tribal/tattoo style tshirts based on my paintings. I've had to get down and dirty to figure out the painting process on textiles and never picked up an airbrush gun before. It sort of feels like working as a graffiti artist using spray cans. Fun! but I might just have them painted in Bali...
    Next week I will know more about composting.
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    Family.

    For the past few days, I've been with my cousins, some of whom I've never met. Yesterday there were 12 of us. It was a beautiful day, warm, sunny, with everything set up for a picnic outdoors. NOBODY moved out of the living room. It was as if we couldn't bear to be apart after having found one another. I came to see the powerful bond created by blood. I hadn't ever seen this before in quite this way. It is a sacred thing.

    I am a writer. The time yesterday was so overwhelmingly beautiful, I need time to take it in before I can write about it and make any sense of it at all.
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    Photography is not a mere "hobby"--it has the power to allow me to stop and see (and hopefully capture)....not only the physical world around me but the passion, joy, hurt and healing powers of individuals.

    I just gifted myself (for my 40th) a 9-day course at Santa Fe Photography Workshops and came away with so much beyond camera mastery, framing and composition. It is soooo good to have my eyes opened---when I had no idea they were closed!
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    That even after 40 years of life, 4 years of therapy, living a good 1,500 miles apart, my dad can still push my buttons. The good news is, I caught it 45 minutes after he left. Not 7 years and 3 countries later! I'm growing! :))
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    I found my style statement this week (Understated Joy) and now I know more about what makes me tick. Like why I spent my early 20s wearing clown shoes and stripy tights (Umm..a little too heavy on the Joy, a little too light on the Understated!), why people say I get calmer the more anxious the people around me get and why I always divide up big lavish boquets into little sweet ones. Knowing what makes you tick is really liberating. ;)
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    The only prevention tools against HIV/AIDS are latex/polyurethane condoms, ABSTINENCE, & using clean needles.

    In Spanish, "NADA" has two different meanings "he/she swims" and "nothing"

    My boo is back from serving in Iraq, safely. WOO HOO!!!

    I know how to draft a Microsoft Access report.

    That my dad watches the BET Awards...HA HA!!!

    After missing a month of going to the gym and hip hop dance....that I truly enjoy excercising (sweating) and eating healthier!!! It's fun to be healthy!
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    Well I learned yesterday that my official last day at my freelance job will be next Thursday. I've learned after being in the office for 2+ months that a dirty house doesn't miraculously clean itself...and in fact can get even dirtier?! And I learned this morning that cassette tape is toxic for dogs...who knew that!!!
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    This week I discovered that the universe really does work in mysterious ways. On Sunday night I spontaneously said to my boyfriend, 'Hey we should do some yoga before we go to bed!' (We took a beginner class together in the fall.) He said 'Just a second' and clicked away on his computer for a minute and next thing you know, a Kundalini yoga class was starting up. I had heard of it but had never tried it. Turns out it's amazing, feels like flying and de-stressed and re-energized my entire body. I instantly wanted to run off to India and come back as a Kundalini Yoga teacher! The next day, I asked him where he had gotten it. Turns out, the very first time we met (actually a year before I initially thought was our first meeting) I had just come from a yoga class and told him a great way for a guy to meet women would be to take a yoga class! He was interested in me, but naturally assumed I wasn't interested in him if I was giving him advice on meeting other women! So that night he went home and downloaded that very Kundalini Yoga DVD so that he could 'practice' should he ever decide to take a class. Long story short, he never ended up trying it out or taking a class, and when we met a year later, I was definitely interested. And we've been head over heels in love ever since (that was 18 months ago.)

    So, the universe brought me the yoga I needed now, that I actually brought to myself through Chris. Or something like that!
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    Manifesting! It is easy, once you stop thinking about trying to do it....
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    I love this story!!
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    I have learned by intense trial-and-error exactly how to cancel and get a refund on a Western Union money order.

    I also learned that Wednesdays are 75-cent margarita night at one of my favorite Tex-Mex restaurants. Definitely useful information.
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    Trust. I'm seeing that trusting people (or anything) is about knowing and accepting the truth about them. The deep-down core reality. It's not about hoping or wishing or assuming or expecting or demanding. It is about KNOWING in your heart, following your intuition. Trust is when you can simply say, "This IS."

    "Either you are or you are not.... There is nothing between doing and not doing that can be trusted." Iyanla Vanzant
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    Last two weeks! Try within the last week. On Sunday I ended a 4 year relationship. Clarity is the name of the game right now. I have had so many revelations about what I THOUGHT my life was and what it ACTUALLY was and most importantly where it is going. I thought he was the love of my life and that it was okay if he didn't meet all of my needs nor want to- I still loved and owed it to him to hang in there because I had made a committment. I thought it was okay that we weren't working on moving forward and fixing us - I was confident that we would...someday. What it actually was, was me trying so hard to make something fit that just didn't anymore. It was me convincing myself that this would someday be the relationship that fulfilled me when in reality we were never going to fix us. I had started getting back in touch with (as Carrie and Danielle would call it) my authentic self. That authentic self I had rediscovered was viviacious, confident, fun, sexy, beautiful - traits I had buried to make room for his world. It was Sunday morning and I stared at him and thought, "I love him. I could never leave him. We'll fix this. We'll fix this." Then I stared at these beautiful, chocolatey, silk sheets I had bought to help make our room more sexy. I thought to myself, "I bought those, so I guess I could take them with me when I leave." And with that, I realized I was out of my relationship. I don't know exactly where I was, but I sure wasn't there. And once I knew, I ended it. So, what do I know now that I didn't two weeks ago: LIVE YOUR JOY, you know the answers (another Carrie & Danielle life lesson), be true to you, don't sacrifice you for someone else. There ya go!
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    The meaning of the adage: The devil is in the details. I'm dancing with that devil trying to find the right handle for my new kitchen cupboards. The Style Statement helps narrow my focus but WOW this stuff takes time. It seems so inconsequential but the decision still has to be made.
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    What I now know about myself that I did not know 2 weeks ago is that I am really strong! Huh, I know that sounds weird. But, I have been working out at my Trainers new Crossfit Gym for 8 months now (crazy calistenics type work) and I realized that I could not have painted my living room with the 12 foot cathedral ceilings all by myself this week with ease. Oh! I'm a little sore, but nor more sore than I am after a workout. I can fly up and down that ladder and roll paint over head like a professional painter, Woo Hoo!
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    That is so romantic, Ilove it!
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