What comes naturally to you?

Where do you seem to get lucky?

What events in your life just “fell into place?”

What were the incredible synchronicities that led you to…

Slam dunk. Piece of Cake. Pure joy. Your absolute pleasure.

No matter where I am, on the airplane or in the park, people just tell me stuff. I hear this a lot: “Wow, I’ve never told anybody that. I can’t believe I just told you that.” That’s been happening to me since high school.

(No wonder I make my living by, essentially, listening.)

My route to landing one of the most powerful, hard-to-get-to literary agents in the publishing business was as buttery as 1-2-3. It was an incredibly charmed process that Changed My Life. (Really good things happen when I write.)

I love to wrap presents. Invite me to your house at Christmastime, and I’ll wrap your gifts for you. Something about the folding, the giving, the tape…I guess that makes me a wrap-a-phile. (Confucius say, “Good packaging bring happiness.”)

Pay Attention to What’s Easy for You

Those unremarkable happinesses, those second-nature ways that feel like you’re casually following Easy, those almost unbelievably easy breakthroughs…that is where your divinity lies. Go there, often. More often. Your essence is always waiting for you.

Happiness wants to come easy.

Danielle LaPorte is the outspoken creator of The Desire Map, author of The Fire Starter Sessions (Random House/Crown), co-creator of Your Big Beautiful Book Plan and soon-to-be publisher of Danielle Magazine, launching this September. An inspirational speaker, former think tank exec and business strategist, she writes weekly at DanielleLaPorte.com, where over a million visitors have gone for her straight-up advice — a site that’s been deemed “the best place on-line for kick-ass spirituality”, and was named one of the “Top 100 Websites for Women” by Forbes.

You can also find her on Facebook, Pinterest and Twitter @daniellelaporte.

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