Seize the day.

Wear your white shirts.
Get them pressed.
Use your good dishes – everyday.

Shave on weekends.
Do not wait for special occasions.
Do not tuck your best away in the drawers, in the back of the closet, in your heart.
Don’t wait for holidays or invitations.

Declare that your today is the special occasion.

Call instead of emailing. (it feels so good to connect.)
Go for coffee.

Quit.
Take care of it.

Renounce your glory days. You’ve told all of those stories more than twice.
Focus forward.

Wear perfume for yourself. Toss your only-wear-around-the-house clothes and let your good clothes graduate to around-the-house status.
Intend to feel good all of the time.

Write your book.

Launch.

Make ecstatic sex a priority. (This deliberateness will make you more creative, productive and generally gracious. on your death bed, you will think about all the amazing sex you had this lifetime.)

Burn your to-do list.

Write poetry. One a day.

Make a point to be as encouraging as possible, as much as possible, to everyone possible.

Don’t look back.

If you feel like you’re always failing, consider that this is part of being an artist. Let it be a divine inclination. Keep going.

Enter.

Leave.

Eat real food.

Often refuse to be in the presence of people who make you feel repressed, anxious, or pull your frequency down.

Do not entertain haters.

Send light to the haters.

Give it away. You probably don’t need it and someone else does.

Turn off the TV.

Let it be easy.

Burn candles. During the day.

Fall in love. With yourself. With the person you’re with. With the persons in your orbit.
Because no one is perfect, but you can let the love be perfect for the both of you.
Because everyone – everyone – is a doorway to something bigger. Because you can get there from here.

Because life is short.

Editor’s Note: Danielle LaPorte is the creator of WhiteHotTruth.com, which has been called “the best place on-line for kick-ass spirituality.” She is the author of The Fire Starter Sessions: A Digital Experience for Entrepreneurs, an inspirational speaker, former think tank exec, and news show commentator. You can read all of Danielle’s EcoSalon guest articles here, and find her on Twitter @daniellelaporte.

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People, right now, all over the world, are doing something to instill change.

Right now:

There are Tibetan Buddhist monks in a temple in the Himalayas endlessly reciting mantras for the cessation of your suffering and for the flourishing of your happiness.

Someone you haven’t met yet is already dreaming of adoring you.

Someone is writing a book that you will read in the next two years that will change how you look at life.

Nuns in the Alps are in endless vigil, praying for the Holy Spirit to alight the hearts of all of God’s children.

A farmer is looking at his organic crops and whispering, “nourish them.”

Someone wants to kiss you, to hold you, to make tea for you. Someone is willing to lend you money, wants to know what your favorite food is, and treat you to a movie.

Someone in your orbit has something immensely valuable to give you — for free.

Something is being invented this year that will change how your generation lives, communicates, heals and passes on.

The next great song is being rehearsed.

Thousands of people are in yoga classes right now, intentionally sending light out from their heart chakras and wrapping it around the earth.

Millions of children are assuming that everything is amazing and will always be that way.

Someone is in profound pain, and a few months from now, they’ll be thriving like never before. They just can’t see it from where they’re at.

Someone who is craving to be partnered, to be acknowledged, to ARRIVE, will get precisely what they want , and even more. And because that gift will be so fantastical in it’s reach and sweetness, it will quite magically alter their memory of angsty longing and render it all “So worth the wait.”

Someone has recently cracked open their joyous, genuine nature because they did the hard work of hauling years of oppression off of their psyche — this luminous juju is floating in the ether, and is accessible to you.

Someone just this second wished for world peace, in earnest.

Someone is fighting the fight so that you don’t have to.
Some civil servant is making sure that you get your mail, and your garbage is picked up, that the trains are running on time, and that you are generally safe. Someone is dedicating their days to protecting your civil liberties and clean drinking water.

Someone is regaining their sanity. Someone is coming back from the dead. Someone is genuinely forgiving the seemingly unforgivable. Someone is curing the incurable.

You. Me. Some. One. Now.

Editor’s Note: Danielle LaPorte is the creator of WhiteHotTruth.com, which has been called “the best place on-line for kick-ass spirituality.” She is the author of The Fire Starter Sessions: A Digital Experience for Entrepreneurs, an inspirational speaker, former think tank exec, and news show commentator. You can read all of Danielle’s EcoSalon guest articles here, and find her on Twitter @daniellelaporte.

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The Manifesto Of Encouragement appeared first on EcoSalon.