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Thursday
Sep222011

Relieving ourselves of what Danielle LaPorte refers to as "Energy Leaks"

'pretend that your neuroses are charming' - handwritten idea from Danielle LaPorte's truisms category It seems like a no-brainer, but sometimes you have to hear or read something in a certain way to finally get the message. Danielle LaPorte got my attention today with her White Hot Truth blog post: "get immediate relief: energy leaks + enlightenment." She does that sometimes. Gets my attention with the way she phrases things, or, y'know, points out something that makes so much sense you wonder why she had to tell you at all.

The energy leaks of which she writes are those things we face over and over, continuing to just deal with them, rather than take what would sometimes be mere minutes - though not always - to just handle them once and for all. A couple of her examples are "the lock that always sticks," and "that kink in your neck."

She asserts:

Every time you make REPEATED contact with aggravating tasks and situations, you make a conscious or unconscious choice to endure (the root of the word endure is 'to suffer',) and to settle with less-than-ideal.

That's where she

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