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Just in Case

I came across this image today, and I promptly shared it everywhere.  I think we should all read it to yourselves or say it to ourselves every morning. In case you forgot to remind yourself this morning...your butt is perfect. Your smile lights up the room. Your mind is insanely cool. You are way more than enough, and you are doing an amazing job at life. I know I've blogged about this before, but we are our own worst enemy.  Seriously!  I don't know about you, but I wouldn't talk to my worst enemy the way I talk to myself.  My internal monologues are filled with disgust about myself, my life, my eating habits, my laziness, basically, my everything.  Let's just take eating habits for a second.  Yeah, my eating habits are not the greatest, but neither are the eating habits of a lot of other people.  There will be times when we'll be pigging out on junk food and someone will comment on how bad they are eating or how much weight they need to lose.   To them I will say supportive things. "It's okay to take a break from eating healthy," or "Splurge today and get right back…

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December 31, 2017
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She Gave Me the Finger, I Gave Her My Heart – Chris Cade

Though that may sound like like the name of a really bad country song, I assure you I haven't switched vocations to become a musician. :) See, the other day I was taking my son to preschool and I had an "interaction" with a driver. There is a highway interchange that was designed very poorly and has great potential for accidents. All the people in the left lane have to get over to the right lane (which turns very quickly), and all the people coming from the right lane (which is a curve) have to get over into the left lane. To compound the issue, those going from right to left have a metering light that brings traffic to a stop. During rush hour, it's a dangerous intersection. I was in the left lane, another woman in the right. I kindly slowed so that she'd be able to get into the lane in front of me. Then I'd be able to switch to the right. Unfortunately, she decided to also slow at the same time. We both came to an almost complete stop in the middle of traffic because within the 1 second we saw each other, we couldn't agree on…

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May 6, 2012
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If You Don’t have ____, You Don’t Have Anything – Chris Cade

by Chris Cade There's a lot of ways that people fill in that blank. Some words that may come to mind are: Love Money Passion Family Friends Health Dreams One might even go so far as to say if you don't have ALL of those things, you're living a life "half" lived. The thing is, while all of those are necessary to life a deeply fulfilling life... one that is abundant in every way, that's not what I want to share about today. "Fulfillment comes from being in a state of living your passion." – Jack Canfield See, there's one thing – that if you don't have it– all of your efforts in EVERY one of those areas will fall short. What is that thing? Integrity. No, I'm not talking about what most people refer to as integrity. Integrity is not about whether or not other people in the world think you are acting with kindness or that they think they can trust you. Integrity means to be integrated. It means that the aspects of yourself, within yourself, are working together as a whole regardless of who may or may not be watching. In this way, integrity gives us a…

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April 13, 2012
Articles / Dreams / Emotions

Here is Why Your Future is Full of Radness

by Mastin Kipp Proverbs 29:18 says, “Where there is no vision, the people perish”. This is not just a Christian thing… Here at TDL (The Daily Love) we pull from ALL sources of truth. No matter what you believe, seriously consider this statement. When we don’t have a vision in life, we have nothing to aim for, no purpose, no empowering meaning and life seems dull and numb and even meaningless. And when we live a meaningless life, we tend to create at a very low level. Tony Robbins talks about a lot of the people he’s met who have been suicidal. One of the common patterns he’s noticed is that people who no longer want to live feel this way because they have no vision for the future to be better than the past. Now, I’m paraphrasing his words and I don’t have anywhere near the amount of experience that he does in working with people. But this is a very interesting thing to consider. Remember, here at TDL we don’t believe that everything we say is “The” truth, just thoughts, ideas and opinions for you to consider. So please take what you want from this and leave the…

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March 11, 2012
Articles / Emotions / Love

Be Happy with You

I don't know where this came from originally, but it really resonated with me. Dear One,  Everyone longs to give themselves completely to someone, to have a deep soul relationship with another, to be loved thoroughly and exclusively, but I say "No."  Not until you are satisfied, fulfilled and content with being alone, with giving yourself totally and unreservedly to Me, will you be ready to have the intensely personal and unique relationship that I have planned for you.  You will never be united with anyone or anything else until you are united with Me. I want you to stop planning, stop wishing, and start allowing Me to give you the most thrilling plan in existence - one that you cannot even imagine. I want you to have the best.  Please, allow Me to bring it to you.  You must keep watching Me expecting the greatest of things.  Keep experiencing the satisfaction that I AM.  Keep listening and learning the things that I will tell you.  Just wait.  That's all.  Don't be anxious. Don't worry.  Don't look around at the things others have or that I have given them. Don't look at the things you think you want. Just keep…

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March 7, 2012
Articles / Emotions / Love

Love Yourself – From Chris Cade

Every once in a while, the Universe does something awesome - right now, right this second was one of those awesome things.   This morning I posted a blog post about the importance of being a friend to yourself and loving yourself. Just a few minutes ago in an email, I received this from Chris Cade.  Talk about synchronicity! A couple of days ago was Valentine's Day. All across the world, people experienced a variety of emotions. Though there's three primary ones I've noticed seem to be most common: (1) A deep affection and love (usually towards others) It seems that by giving ourselves a "reason" to love, it activates that part of ourselves that finds reasons to experience, express, and share our love. This is not unlike a sentimental photo that reminds us of a past moment we cherished. "Valentine's Day" can act as a symbol to look inward and live more fully outward. (2) Indifference For me, most Valentine's Days pass with irrelevance. Every day is an opportunity to experience, express, and share love. Rather than having to "find" a reason, I focus on removing the inner blocks so I naturally experience those reasons more frequently. with each passing…

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February 16, 2012
Articles / Emotions / Love / self-esteem

Your Emotions are Valid – The Daily Love

Your Emotions Are Valid, Choose People Who Believe That, Too! originally posted by Mastin Kipp on August 28, 2011 at The Daily Love Our emotions are not a burden, neither to us nor to the people in our lives. Our emotions are real and they are valid. If we are to be happy, we must begin to step into not only loving our emotions, but also finding healthy ways to express them. We can’t build intimacy with anyone in our life without the ability to express our emotions and feel safe doing so. Many people have written in the WhatImGoingThru@TheDailyLove.com  and shared how they feel guilty for expressing their emotions, even though they feel their life is a blessing. They feel that their emotions are a burden and shouldn’t be expressed unless they are totally 100% positive. But you see, anyone who only wants us to express “positive” emotions (including ourselves) doesn’t have true unconditional love for us. Rather, they have a conditional kind of love that can only handle the “good”. This is probably for good reason, namely because everyone is going through something and many folks don’t want even MORE negativity in their life. However, for us to really love each…

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August 28, 2011
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What About Love?

I've been thinking a lot about love lately.  What it is, what it means, what's it's like to have it, and what it's like to not have it in your life, and of course the different kinds of love. Lets start with the types of love.  There is the love you share with friends, there is passionate love, there is romantic love, familial love and unrequited love just to name a few. I'm lucky that I have lots of love in my life.  I have great friends, and I have two amazing and wonderful kids.  I am rich when it comes to love.  I've had passionate love and romantic love and I've even had unrequited love.  And all of them are good.  Yes, all of them - even the unrequited love. I had crushes on boys when I was a little girl.  Boys who didn't even know I was alive, and I had crushes on movie stars and singers.  Yes David Cassidy and Donny Osmond, I'm talking to you.  And yes, as an adult, there have been people I loved deeply, with all my heart that just didn't love me back. At first, I thought unrequited love was a horrible…

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August 21, 2011
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A Reason, A Season or A Lifetime – Chris Cade

email from Chris Cade Below is a slightly modified passage which has always resonated with me because it illustrates the significance of understanding and accepting that people come into our lives for different purposes and for differing amounts of time. When we become still and tune into our intuition, we gain insight into the nature of those reasons and how we might embrace these peoples' presence in our life more fully. "A Reason, A Season, Or A Lifetime" -- Author Unknown People come into your life for a reason, a season or a lifetime. When someone is in your life for a REASON, it is usually to meet a need you have expressed. They have come to assist you through a difficulty, to provide you with guidance and support, to aid you physically, emotionally, or spiritually. They may seem like a godsend, and they are! They are there for the reason you need them to be. Then, without any wrongdoing on your part, or at an inconvenient time, this person will say or do something to bring the relationship to an end. Sometimes they die. Sometimes they walk away. Sometimes they act up and force you to take a stand.…

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August 6, 2011
Daily Positive Thought / Love

Give Love Away

Love wasn't put in your heart to stay. Love isn't love until you give it away. - Michael W. Smith I love love. I am in love with love. I am FILLED with love, and the more love I have, the more love I share, and the more I share, the more I get back. Think about it, what good is love if you keep it all to yourself and hoard it? Love is meant to be shared, because when you share love, love grows, love spreads, love expands. Keep sharing those amazing feelings of love you have and watch as that love multiplies and comes back to you a thousand times over!  Love doesn't cost you anything - it's an amazing gift to give, and it's the one gift you can regift without guilt and are happy to get back!

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August 5, 2011