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HOPE. Hope is... Hope is the difference between the joy of being alive and the burden of being the walking dead. Practice patience. Cultivate a steadfast expectation and then surrender to the possibility that - maybe, just maybe, "tomorrow" will come today. Dana DANA DELIVERED! User's Guide: 1) Open up your Dana Delivered! email. 2) Choose an article from the menu on the left hand side or just start from the beginning and read all the way through. 3) If you are reading an article and want to finish, Click on "Read More..." and you will be taken to our website. You can finish reading and while there, have a look around. Note: Dana's Dailies changes, well, daily so come back often. 4) Click on any of the words highlighted in red and you will be taken right to our site, DanaRoc.com. In INSPIRING PEOPLE: Dana talks with Public Relations Guru and Author, Terrie Williams. Terrie Williams is a successful Public Relations Agent, and her book, and the work that she has been doing as a result, is gaining ground breaking notoriety. Read Dana's EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW with Terrie Williams and fine out what she's up to now! Take a minute to read DANA'S WEEKLY INSIGHT and make sure that you listen to the AUDIO VERSION as well. There may be someone who needs you to pass that along. Check out DANA'S DAILIES for no other reason than to hopefully smile. And come back and visit the blog all week at www.danaroc.com/dailies. The special article FROM DANA'S GUESTS: this week is Dalai Lama: Timeless Remarks. Read this speech, delivered in 1989 by Nobel Prize winner and spiritual leader the Dalai Lama. His words ring louder today than ever before and beckon a response... Check out AUGUSTE ROC'S MY TWO CENTS (For Whatever It Is Worth). There is something in it for YOU! While it may be "Two Cents" but you'll find it's worth a whole lot more. Feel free to email your comments to Auguste at auguste@danaroc.com. This week's THE GOOD LIFE : BOOKS selection is Letters to a Young Artist : Straight-up Advice on Making a Life in the Arts-For Actors, Performers, Writers, and Artists of Every Kind by Anna Deavere Smith. This book provides a uniquely entertaining approach to mentoring and offering useful, sage advice. Whether you or an actor, an artist, an engineer, doesn't matter. The message transcends. Something useful in THE GOOD LIFE : WEB SITES this week. Check it out! And there's more so sit back, grab a cup of coffee, relax and enjoy. As always, thanks for reading! Stay cool. Be hungry. Never look back. Always reach back. Fear not. Believe always, Dana Great Expectations
Have you ever noticed that the sun rises in the east, the sun sets in the west -- everyday? Everyday the sun comes up and everyday the sun eventually goes down again. Day follows night, night follows day. And have you ever noticed that you expect daylight to eventually come every morning and darkness to come with the night? We expect that with certainty, don't we? But, have you also noticed that when you have habitually expected something -- assumed or took for granted that a thing would happen -- it happens over and over just as you expect? Never any doubt and never entertaining that it would be any other way. So that is the way that it goes. What if, in the same way that we expect that the lights will go on when we flip the switch, we could expect, simply expect to be happy. What if, in the same way that we take for granted the seasons will change, we took for granted our own personal success? What if? What if we just expected we'd have what we want? Imagine. Now, consider that -- What we expect is what we set ourselves up to receive? I almost never ever ever lose anything. However: Several years ago -- I lost four very crisp one hundred dollar bills as I was working out at the gym. I was even more frustrated than I would have been because this happened at Christmas time; right in the middle of my holiday shopping. I searched high and low and as I left the gym, I can recall that I mentioned to the manager that if anyone should find four crisp one hundred dollar bills -- "please, just give me a call". A week went by and I received the call informing me that someone had found those hundreds, returned them to the manager and I went to pick them up and just in time for Christmas. I expected to get my money back, and I did! Many months ago -- I was visiting a friend who lives in New Hampshire. I realized, as I was getting ready to travel back home to New York, that I had lost my favorite black cardigan. I love that black cardigan! I had had it for years. I retraced my steps back to all of the shops and the restaurants that we had visited over the course of my visit and -- no black cardigan. A few days after I returned home, I remembered that I had ridden a bus during my stay. I called the bus company and the person who answered the phone was holding my black cardigan at her desk. She put it in an envelope and two days later I was wearing it again. I expected to get my sweater back, and I did! Not too long ago -- my husband and daughter and I took a trip down to South Beach. We changed hotel rooms our first day there. It dawned on me a few days later that I left my gold chain with it's three beautiful gold crosses hanging on the closet door of the first room that we were in. Irritated at myself for forgetting my chain, I phoned hotel housekeeping and asked them if they had it. They assured me that they had not. Each time that we would return to the hotel at the end of the day, I would ask if my chain had been found. Each time the answer was "no". On our last day we returned to our room to find an envelope waiting on the desk. The envelope contained my gold chain with a very nice note from the General Manager letting me know that they had found my chain and in a very unlikely place. I expected to get my necklace back, and I did! Just a few days ago -- I uncharacteristically invested in a monthly metro pass to ride the subway train -- you pay more in advance but you save in the long run as a result. As I reached in my back pocket to grab my new and barely used metro pass, I realized it was gone. I had just put it in my pocket as I left home so that it would be easy to grab. I was sure that it must have slipped out of my pocket and onto the busy streets as I walked from home to the train. I walked back up the subway stairs and back onto the streets, heading back in the direction toward home. About a block away, in the middle of a crowded street, I looked down and spotted my metro pass, rushed back to the station and I was able to still make my train. I expected to get my subway pass back, and I did! What you expect is what you are setting yourself up to receive. I almost never ever, ever lose anything. However: when I do, I always expect to get it back and I always do! I take it for granted like the stars hanging in the sky that the things that I lose will always find there way back to me. You see, expecting that my things will be found or returned when I lose or misplace them is not even something that I have to think too much about. I just know that it will happen. I expect. And so it goes. The conversations that I have, the actions that I take, the way that I am being, aligns with, and therefore allows for, that which I am expecting. I just kind of know that it will be that way. And you? What if you expected to win like I expect to get back the things that I lose? And, what if you just took it for granted that you could be overwhelmingly happy, successful and expressed like turning on the faucet and expecting the water will run? Your reality, whether you realize it or not, is often a direct result of what you are expecting to happen. Your thoughts, your words, your actions, your feelings are all connected to what it is that you expect. Like a magnet, you attract your reality to you by attracting what you need in order to fulfill on what it is that you are expecting. As you feed and indulge in your expectations in life -- for bad or for good, for better or worse -- life will unfold in ways that support that expectation. Imagine. Aren't there certain people that you expect certain things from,-good or bad, and they never seem to let you down? And aren't there certain days that you expect to feel a certain way -- Monday morning, Friday night -- and you end up in that exact particular frame of mind? Don't you make requests that you expect to be accepted or extend invitations that you expect will be rejected and aren't you almost always right? What you expect is what you are setting yourself up to receive. Expecting something increases the likelihood that it will happen so be careful, be very careful that you: Empower yourself to expect what you want. Then be empowered by whatever it is you expect. When you are empowered by your expectations, you are free, aligned and moving with purpose to make "it" happen. People that you don't expect to support you will just show up, events that you would never have dreamed of will occur, and resources that were beyond your grasp will suddenly become available. So, stop expecting to get what you don't want, and resolve your personal doubts because, like it or not, believe it or not you set yourself up to have your expectations be fulfilled. Today, ground your expectations in a healthy optimistic view of yourself, your life and of what is possible for you. Expect with certainty! And then notice your thoughts, conversations, your feelings and actions line up with what you expect! Today, just as the sun will rise and the birds will fly, just as the fish will swim and night time will fall -- expect to win and then watch it all come together! Today, expect that what is lost will be found and what is broken can be fixed. Expect the "people to show up" and the "resources to suddenly become available". The events will unfold today because you have empowered yourself to expect what you want! Attract what it is that you need and indulge yourself in the idea that Today is the day of your Greatest Expectation -- FULFILLED! Dana Have a great week!   Public Relations Guru, Community Leader and Author, Terrie Williams
Terrie is a social worker by training who became a successful public relations pro by her own design, inscribed her prominence as an author of the successful business and inspirational story, and has now emerged as an advocate for youth and those who battle depression. Terrie Williams is a pioneer in more ways than one. She left a career as a social worker and transformed herself into a powerful Public Relations Agent. Now, she has written a groundbreaking book about a subject that she is fiercely passionate about, and her commitment to people healing the broken places is --
DR: Tell me about your life and your work. DR: Tell me about your new book. TW: Black Pain is really my way of issuing a wake up call to the African American community in particular.
DR: How have you personally benefited from writing this book? TW: I understand what I am here to do. At fifty three it is finally been made clear to me what I am supposed to do.
 The Dalai Lama - December 10, 1989, Nobel Peace Prize Acceptance Speech
War and more war is the unsettling topic of many conversations these days, providing an opportunity for the world to reconsider –
His Holiness the Dalai Lama's Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech Your Majesty, Members of the Nobel Committee, Brothers and Sisters: I am very happy to be here with you today to receive the Nobel Prize for Peace. I feel honoured, humbled and deeply moved that you should give this important prize to a simple monk from Tibet. I am no one special. But, I believe the prize is a recognition of the true values of altruism, love, compassion and nonviolence which I try to practise, in accordance with the teachings of the Buddha and the great sages of India and Tibet. I accept the prize with profound gratitude on behalf of the oppressed everywhere and for all those who struggle for freedom and work for world peace. I accept it as a tribute to the man who founded the modern tradition of nonviolent action for change - Mahatma Gandhi - whose life taught and inspired me. And, of course, I accept it on behalf of the six million Tibetan people, my brave countrymen and women inside Tibet, who have suffered and continue to suffer so much. They confront a calculated and systematic strategy aimed at the destruction of their national and cultural identities. The prize reaffirms our conviction that with truth, courage and determination as our weapons, Tibet will be liberated. No matter what part of the world we come from, we are all...
 Harmony
When Gussie was eleven years old and attending a summer arts camp in the Midwest, she played the violin as a member of the Junior Orchestra. One of the primary objectives of her conductor that summer was to strengthen the ability in each of the students to play well, and to play beyond the level of each one as an individual; to expand their capacity of each one to play as a team. For the entire four weeks of camp the kids focused on, not only the compositions they learned to play, but also on seeking to appreciate the significance of the role and the responsibility of the other members of the group. And, At the final concert, when the conductor, after introducing the kids and the piece that they were about to play, announced that she would leave the stage and that the kids would play without a conductor as a demonstration of what they had learned about working as a team, we all held our breath and we listened, as a group of eleven year old kids played Brandenburg's Concerto as beautifully as it has ever been performed anywhere and - they played as one. I hope you'll take a moment to listen: Everything just works better when every player, not only plays his part well, but plays in full consideration of all of the other parts that every other player has to play. That's my two cents (for whatever it's worth), Auguste Roc
 Go With The Flow
I just realized suddenly this week that I really enjoy - the music of Mexico... That surprised me and made me laugh because it doesn’t fit my idea of what I think I am supposed to like but, for whatever reason, I really like it. Anyway, this discovery has made me just a little bit more interesting to myself...  Chow.com
Why I am recommending this website: When the world of food intersects with cutting edge technology the result is FHOD -"foodie" heaven on demand! From the Website:
 Letters to a Young Artist : Straight-up Advice on Making a Life in the Arts-For Actors, Performers, Writers, and Artists of Every Kind
Why I am recommending this book: Because Anna Deavere Smith is a true artist who possesses the rare ability to cut through the fluff and effectively communicate passionately. Her wisdom inspires. Click here to purchase this book. Amazon.com: Click here to purchase this book.
 
The best way to suffocate your dream is to - keep it a secret. If you want to realize a dream, talk about it - a lot!
 
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