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SURRENDER

Surrender means: to give up; resign, relinquish, wave the white flag, yield.

Remember “Surrender Dorothy” from the Wizard of Oz? How many of us treat our lives as though the Wicked Witch of the East is after us and we must hold on and persevere against all odds to survive?

How many of us, on the other hand, take action steps, keep positive thoughts, accept opportunities and do all that we can – and then surrender, let go? Be present and release the results to the Universe to bring to us as it wishes?

Julia Cameron said:  “The creative process is a process of surrender, not control.”

Therein lies the trick – to do all that we can and then to surrender. Once we surrender we can actually appreciate exactly where we are, the day, the people around us, the circumstances -- all of it. We’ve already done all that we can and now we can relax and just be. There is such goodness and wonderful surprise in letting go and surrendering.

Last week I was to accept an Honorary Achievement Award for my radio show. My boyfriend and some good friends were to meet me at the beautiful hotel where the event was being held.  But so much seemed to go wrong. My boyfriend called and said work had asked him at the last minute to stay late. He works in television so there is no “this can wait until tomorrow!. He was upset and asked me what he should do. I told him to stay and do the work and I believed everything would turn out okay. And amazingly – it did. He did all the work they needed and he left his job and made it to the hotel in plenty of time – in fact he got there before me!  Now – I did my radio interview that night and left Burbank to drive across town to the hotel. I’d done my interview earlier than usual to accommodate that evening’s event. I’d never left Burbank at that time and found I was caught in terrible traffic – all the TV and film studios surrounding the radio station had let out at the same time and there I was in a sea of cars and red lights – it looked like I would not make it to my own award ceremony. I called my girlfriend who was also driving over and she was heading out late too – although from the complete opposite side of Los Angeles! We assured each other it was all going to be divine timing and truly just connecting with her calmed me down and I knew for me, for her, for everyone - it would turn out perfect. And it was. I got there late ~ however I got there in more than enough time to enjoy the guests and the affair and before the award ceremony began, it turned out fine. I’d surrendered the circumstances and it worked out.

The Indian Spiritual Leader Sri Sathya Sai Baba said:

“Once we surrender our mind to GOD completely, HE will take care of us in every way.”

For some reason Halloween was huge was me this year. I was like a 7 years old -- so excited about it. I wanted to go to a theme park for to celebrate Halloween…it took me over. But my guy wasn’t so sure about it - with the crowds - and asked if we could go another time when it wasn’t so busy.  I agreed and surrendered.  Then the Friday before Halloween I received a phone call from a company where I’d submitted my name to a contest a month prior saying I had just won the Grand Prize of two tickets, worth $120,  to Knott’s Scary Farm to celebrate Halloween. Can you imagine? I surrendered going to an amusement park (even though the desire was still strong) and it came to me anyway -- through the goodness of the Universe…all on its own -- for free! My guy and I went to the park for Halloween and had a very good, scary time.

It’s been amazing lately -- all this letting go I find it really works for me. 

I had front row seats at the star-studded 200^th anniversary show of “Dancing with the Stars” this week. It was a huge celebration honoring all the past seasons as well as this one. Someone I know got me tickets. I went with a girlfriend and we were very dressed up and happy. When the taping was over I was on line for the restroom and my friend said she was going to leave, hugged me goodbye, and left to drive home. She should have stayed – because a surprise happened next, but she didn’t.  We must be surrendered for opportunities to come to us. I stood in line and all of a sudden the guy who’d gotten us the special tickets to the show was standing next to me – he’d been looking for me. “Where’s your friend?” He asked. “She went home,” I told him. “Ahhh too bad,” he said. “Come with me.” And off we went – back stage. I spent the next 1/2 hour having my photo taken on the Dancing with the Stars stage and then back stage hob-knobbing with the celebrities. What an awesome surprise.

There have been so many more lately in my life – what I want to impart here -- is the key for me, for us all, is to surrender. I do so much on a daily, weekly basis to further myself, to achieve my goals. In this part of my life however, it’s about allowing. About stepping back. About knowing I’m doing my best and letting God, the Goddess, the Universe, whatever you call it – take over from there. Then the situation is a “co” create…it’s being done with a combing of efforts and energies and the ride is so much more fun!

Deepak Chopra said: "Surrender is faith that the power of Love can accomplish anything -- even when you cannot foresee the outcome."  

I always let go and trust who comes on the “Dare to Dream” show.

I’m now learning to trust which direction my life goes.

I say yes, I do the work and leave the rest in the capable hands of the Loving Universe.

I’m learning to allow myself to sit back and enjoy the ride.  The word joy is in the word Enjoy. To be in joy. That’s what life is about. So do the work and then sit back, be present, and enjoy exactly where you are -- it’s all so perfect!

Wonderful things happen when you let go of the reigns of your life and enjoy the moment; enjoy the ride.

David Deida wrote: “The word "surrender" is often interpreted as giving up, as weakness, as admitting defeat. Although this is one way to use the word, we will use it in a different way. Surrendering means letting go of your resistance to the total openness of who you are. It means giving up the tension of the little vortex you believe yourself to be and realizing the deep power of the ocean you truly are. It means to open with no boundaries, emotional or physical, so you ease wide beyond any limiting sense of self you might have.”

Practice surrender today. 

With blessings,

Deborah

You can Be & Do Anything -- You Can Recreate Yourself At Anytime -- You Are Limitless

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You can Be & Do Anything -- You Can Recreate Yourself At Anytime -- You Are Limitless

You can Be & Do Anything -- You Can Recreate Yourself At Anytime -- You Are Limitless

You Can Be & Do Anything – Recreate Yourself At Anytime. A Secret: There are No Limitations

Deborah is receiving an honorary achievement award for her radio show at the Elite VIP event this Wednesday evening in Los Angeles.  As part of my acceptance of the award, I plan to say some of the following below.  

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Francis Hodgson Burnett said: 

“At first people refuse to believe that a strange new thing can be done, then they begin to hope it can be done, then they see it can be done. Then it is done and all the world wonders why it was not done centuries ago.”

Thoughts and actions change reality. Interactions connect the world. Every drop makes a difference.  By focusing our energy on what inspires us rather than on what we fear, we manifest the world we desire.

Rabbi Harold Kushner wrote: “When you carry out acts of kindness you get a wonderful feeling inside. It is as though something inside your body responds and says, yes, this is how I ought to feel.”

A Belief is the psychological state in which an individual holds a proposition or premise to be true. What are your beliefs and which do you want to change so that the reality you’re experiencing also changes to something you’d prefer more?

Let nothing hold you back from exploring your wildest fantasies, wishes, and aspirations.  Don't be afraid to dream big and to follow your dreams wherever they may lead you.

If you think you are too small to be effective, you have never been in the dark with a mosquito.

The secret of success is having the courage to begin in the first place. Nothing is impossible, when you break down the word it says: I’m Possible.

Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending. 

From Chief Seattle: “Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but a thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things connect.”

If at first you don’t succeed- then skydiving is definitely not for you. :-)

And you can recreate yourself anytime – you can be successful at any age. Don’t buy into any limitations. Age is of no importance unless you’re a cheese.

God or The Universe gives us dreams a size too big so that we can grow in them. 

If the creator had a purpose in equipping us with a neck, she surely meant us to stick it out.

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BETTSIE WILD, Founder of the No Child Goes Hungry “Dare to Care” nonprofit program

BETTSIE WILD, Special Founder of No Child Goes Hungry “Dare to Care” nonprofit program. Interviewed by Deb Dachinger on "Dare to Dream" Radio. Listen Now at: http://www.youpublish.com/files/33337

Bettsie noticed her little girl Lena was coming home from school hungry. How could she be hungry when Lena left with food every day? Somehow Lena wasn’t eating. It was discovered that Lena was giving her food to friends who came to school each day with no lunch pail and no money for lunch. They were coming to school with nothing for the entire day, and Lena was giving her pal food, sharing with her so her companion would have something to eat also. The school forbad Lena from doing for fear of legal repercussions. Mom, Bettsie, went to Lena’s school to see for herself and indeed the school stepped in to stop Lena’s share-feeding of the hungry child. Bettsie tried another tactic; she gave the cafeteria money to pay for any hungry children in the school, however her money was turned away as there was no way to appropriate the funds. Out of frustration and complete bewilderment that 14 million children in the United States are going hungry daily and 17,000 die from malnutrition complications each year. Mom, Bettsie, and daughter Lena started the No Child Goes Hungry 501c3 nonprofit foundation. It began in Alaska, has come to California, is being looked at by 7 states, and the foundation’s goal is to be nationwide. A $100 donation to the foundation pays for a child’s lunch for one month. Dare to Care, Inc. Executive Director, Bettsie, is a family mediator who specializes in co-parenting mediations, helping the parents focus on the children, while navigating through the divorce process. Bettsie is also a Court Appointed Special Advocate for Abused and Neglected Children and a trained Child Custody Investigator. She is a trained facilitator for both "Children in the Middle" and "After the Storm" programs that provide support and skills for co-parenting and to children living the reality of divorce. Bettsie focuses her practice on helping to remember the kids and finding an outcome everyone can live with. At work and at home, Bettsie’s life is focused on children. She has four children of her own, ages 24, 18, 11 & 8. Her youngest daughter, Lena, inspired Bettsie to found the charity, Dare to Care, which feeds children-in-need in community schools. The program started five years ago when Lena, then a first grader, had a friend who was coming to school every day hungry, and without food or money to purchase a hot lunch. In approaching the school regarding the little girl’s dilemma, the Wild’s learned there were many children who for different reasons, who were going hungry every day and needed help. These are children who fall through the cracks and do not receive benefit of the federal free and reduced meal program. Many are abused and neglected. That year, the Wild family fed 35 children in two neighborhood schools – and has grown to become an official 501(c)(3) and is feeding over 2,000 children. It is their dream to have the program go nation-wide, and help feed the over 14 million hungry children in the US who need benefit of such a program. Bettsie and her daughter Lena are in California raising awareness and putting the program into our schools to jump start the program going national. Through Dare to Care, Bettsie puts on school assemblies talking to students about kindness and tolerance – and the importance in not judging others because they are different. www.NoChildGoesHungry.org; www.daretocare-alaska.com/aboutus/wild.html
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What Dreams Ultimately Do: Smolder Inside Us Until We Take Action to Make Our Dream our Reality

What Dreams Ultimately Do: Smolder Inside Us Until We Take Action to Make Our Dream our Reality

Viola Davis, the fabulous award-winning actress spoke about achieving dreams. She said:
“That’s what dreams ultimately do: drive us to want and need something better.”

The Harlem Village Academies is a network of charter public schools in Harlem that are nationally recognized for academic excellence.  It’s based on 1 core idea:

Belief in the power of teachers. The teachers are coached weekly on how to make lessons more challenging and interesting for the kids with the freedom to run their classrooms. That produces passion and dedication, and in the end the Academies held their teachers accountable for results.

Deborah Kenny, CEO of the Harlem Village Academy says “There is not equality in America, and I think about it constantly.  We have 14 million children living in poverty, and there is a complete disparity between the education they receive and that of a child in a high socioeconomic bracket.  But we’ve learned many lessons over the years and are now figuring out how to share that knowledge with educators around the country. That’s a critical first step to solving the education problem nationally.”

It’s so important that we teach our children that they are wise and capable. That we take the time to support their goals and dreams and let them know if they choose to pursue a dream and will take the necessary action steps to achieve it, they can make their dreams come true. Often times the outcome is beyond their wildest dreams.

You’ve heard of Abby Sunderland, the 16 year old Southern California girl who set out to go 25,000 miles and circle the globe alone in a sailboat. She was lost at sea for a period of time in an almost fateful journey, and thankfully returned home safely.

Jean Pierre Arabonis, A South African Oceanographer and meteorologist whose company OSIS advises the shipping industry on navigating safe passage around dangerous weather, said he admired Sunderland’s effort. He described the place where she’d run into trouble as “one of the nastiest pieces of ocean you can encounter,” with reported wind speeds as high as 115 MPH. Arabonis commends Sunderland on having sailed 12,000 miles before running afoul of the weather, and added that in his opinion, there was nothing she could have done to avoid having her boat’s mast cracked by a rogue wave. The vessel experienced a mechanical failure; it had nothing to do with her age.

When reporters asked her father, Laurence, about her journey and the ocean, he said:

“What do I think of the ocean? The ocean scares me and that’s a healthy sort of fear.” Laurence added that the rewards of Abby’s sailing expedition trumped the risks.  “Frankly life is unsafe,” he said, “Life has a 100 percent mortality rate. We’re all going to die, you know? I think the saddest things about living, is getting to a ripe old age and never having fulfilled a dream in your life.”

In the year 2010 alone:

·       a 13 year old American boy summated Mount Everest,

·       a 15-year old skied to the North Pole,

·       a 16-year old British boy completed the Marathon des Sables, a grueling 151-mile race across the Sahara,

·       and Jessica Watson sailed triumphantly into Sydney Harbor after 7-months alone at sea.

An old Iranian proverb goes:  Fire is smoldering beneath the ashes.

What fire is smoldering within you? Are you ready to take steps to start fulfilling your dream?

 

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Empower Yourself. Make Those Dreams Your Reality.

Fear vs. Courage

As actor Glen Ford once said, “If you do not the thing you fear, the fear controls your life.”

When you confront your fears and move toward what you are afraid of, your fears diminish while at the same time, your self-esteem and self-confidence increases.

The most important kind of courage is the courage to begin, to launch, to step out in faith. This is the courage to try something new or different, to move out of your comfort zone, with no guarantee of success.

With a commitment to acquire the habit of courage you will eventually reach the point where your fears no longer play a major role in your decision making.

You need to have self-discipline to respond positively and constructively in the face of discovery.


Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960 wrote: “Courage can't see around corners, but goes around them anyway.”

You need self-discipline to keep your thoughts on your goals and dreams and keep them –off – of your doubts and fears.


Successful people are those who visualize the kind of success they want in advance. Prior to a new experience the successful person visualizes a successful positive event. The subconscious is like a computer so be sure to input great information, positive pictures and make choices so your subconscious computer output is positive to reflect a great life experience.


You are What You Can Be.


Ambrose Redmoon said: “Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear. “


Courage is the power to let go of the familiar. ~Raymond Lindquist

Dare to dream - and make those dreams into your reality!
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