Safety is a delusion. There is no "safety." At any given moment--whether you take action in the name of your dreams, or not--things can go wrong. Spending a lot of time creating safety is not a road paved with guarantees. In fact, it just wastes time.

So what's the difference between sitting with your stuff as a presence practice, and wallowing? The difference is in the Story. Stories are those repeated, habitual assumptions that we make about life, to the point where those Stories might go unquestioned.

I first interviewed Danielle LaPorte when she was just launching the digital version of the Fire Starter Sessions. I contacted her about doing an interview for The Courageous Living Guide on the topic of Luck, Synchronicity and Magical Thinking.

We find the path to our happiness by noticing what is truly ours, what truly makes us happy. What someone else needs might be different than what you need.