#danielle laport

[popkelture]

Planning for 2015

After seeing my BFF's blog post, I thought I'd get in on planning for 2015...

I’m taking a page from my BFF’s last postwhere she talks about “2015 New Years Focuses”. Personally, I love the idea that she presented about what she wants to focus on in 2015, not what she is making a resolution to actually do. Resolutions never, and I mean NEVER, work for me. I find myself throwing them away within the first two months of the year, or finding ways to work around them… which is…

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[damaged-cracks]

What My Reading Binge Taught Me

What My Reading Binge Taught Me

I learned something powerful in the midst of my dinner today, I’ve been on an emotional bender for the last few days, having severely brake downs and actually felt the true loss of my father. Bare with me here, I know I’ve covered this already a bit, but this feels different.

For two months I smiled and almost slept through what happened. It was denial, pure and simply put, I mean I knew it had…

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[singwith-love-at-our-throats]

You're not chasing the goal itself—you're chasing the feelings that you hope attaining those goals will give you.

The Desire Map by Danielle LaPorte

[jonchiang]

Savasana - Corpse Pose

I've been getting a lot of: "So Jon, what have you been up to these days?" 

I usually reply with a nervous laughter or a blank stare. 

Honestly, I've just been trying to slow down. I am learning. I am thinking about the why's in my life. I am envisioning where I want to be going. I am re-thinking all conceptions that I thought I had about my life. I am questioning the notions of what it means to 'live a life' that have been endowed to me by my family, friends, peers, education. I am learning to sit still. To feel. To breathe. To be present. 

I am currently in a state of savasana. I am integrating, I am turning inwards, I am relaxing into life. This quote really resonated with what I'm doing:

"The purpose is that all the work you just did is metabolizing. It's taking effect. We need more Savasana  in our lives to integrate what we're learning" - Danielle LaPort

I am in the process of metabolizing the last 5 years of my life. The last year of my life. The last 20 some odd years of my life. 

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