Daily DARE - Dare to Reconnect and Have Some Fun

January 31, 2009

During the Super Bowl weekend, what better time to reconnect with a friend you haven’t talked to or seen in a while. Invite him or her over and have some fun.

10 Fun Games for Your Super Bowl Party http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2339850,00.asp

Super Bowl Party Ideas
http://www.chiff.com/recreation/sports/super-bowl.htm#party_ideas

Super Bowl History & Trivia
http://www.chiff.com/recreation/sports/super-bowl.htm#trivia

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Daily DARE

January 29, 2009

I DARE YOU to do one thing today you’ve been putting off and once you’ve completed it … reward yourself.

Fill in the blanks

Little rewards for completing little jobs__________________________

Big rewards for completing big jobs _____________________________

DARE NOT Procrastinate – Each time you begin to procrastinate, give yourself a pep talk. Replace your excuses with affirming messages. It is time to stop accepting your own excuses.

You will never find time for anything. If you want time, you must make it ~ Charles Baxton

Have a daring day!

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Daily DARE

January 28, 2009

I DARE YOU to fall madly in love with yourself today.

Dare to Love Thyself is Daring Principle#1. It is about Heightened Confidence, Positive Self-Talk, Practicing Acceptance and Self-Care.

It starts right there, the expression of how we love ourselves is the same expression of how we love others. It is a critical place to start. Because if we do not love ourselves we cannot really love anyone else!

The key is that we believe that we are lovable and capable no matter what and we have an acceptance of who we truly are, defined by us, not by others.

Have a DARING Day!

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Dare to Trust

January 27, 2009

So much is written lately about “The Secret” and “The Law of Attraction” that we forget that a huge piece of those philosophies has nothing to do with attracting at all. It is trusting the results. All we can do to manifest anything is ALL we can do. We must trust that the universe’s response to our perfect request is, indeed, a perfect fulfillment - even if it does not come in the package we expected.

I am sure that every Daring woman out there can pull at least one magic rabbit out of her hat full of memories - one instance when she included all of the right ingredients and all the hard work, prayer, and attraction she could pour into a situation. The outcome? Perhaps far different than she hoped for and visualized.

The magic to this is often that, in hindsight, we can see the wisdom in how things worked out. We didn’t get “the job” or “Mr. Right” wasn’t so right after all. Situations like that are painful. In fact, situations like that are agony at times. Surely the epitome of this is when we lose someone we love - we filled ourselves with good thoughts and healing energy, only to see them fade further and further from us with every passing day. The truth is that we simply cannot have perfect omniscient vision. We are meant to be subjective, and in turn, to develop the quality of wisdom through acceptance. Only through such painful experiences can we learn this.

How are we to manifest this then? Are we to lose hope. Surely not. Dare to hope is vitally important to leading a quality life - full of magic tricks and bonus questions! But Dare to Trust is probably even more valuable. Dare to trust is what gives us the mature freedom to really ask for what we need and surrender the results.

We can all visualize and at least attempt to “attract” what we want. Even kids at Christmas can do that. (Remember waiting until Christmas day, hoping and hoping for that special gift? Picturing it under the tree in all its finery?) But to do the spiritual work necessary, plus the footwork, of course, and then to simply let it go. Well that is the ephemeral “Get out of Jail Free” card. Why? Because we do not need to ruminate on what we have asked for endlessly, as if we have some ability to jinx it if we lose focus. Or worse, we sometimes believe that if we ask enough, it will be as we wish - like God is some distracted parent who can be worn down with a thousand pleas of “please.”

Nope, Dare to trust means that we just recognize what it is we believe to be the right course, and then surrender. It means to know that, for as powerful as we are, we are not in charge.

When we are able to Dare to Trust, we can send out the thing we need and then accept everything in the moment we are in. We do not have to be attached to “waiting” for what we have asked for, and miss this moment, because we are focused on some possibility to come or not come in our future.

We can’t both ask and RECEIVE in the same moment. So if we are mentally asking, we are not allowing ourselves to be 100% right now.

We are DARING women. We have to DARE to hope and DARE to dream, but we must also simply Dare to live right now. We cannot be in our future unless we are able to truly learn to be in our PRESENT. So Dare to Dream BIG - and then trust that the universe is benevolent and protective, and that you are precious to it. In that space you can be fully alive and live with intention and purpose, no matter what comes down the road.

To your highest success and abundance!

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