Leading With Love 💕

Hello, Cadresphere. It is Anila from Habit aware here to lead with love. Lead us into bedtime with love. I hope everyone is having a beautiful night. I think someone's at my door. Who's coming? Coming quickly. Hi. You want to come sit? Hi, Rachel. Tell me where you're hanging out with me from and if it's almost bedtime, it's bedtime for us. And I'm really liking the switch to the evening time, the night time for leading with love. Hi, Stephanie. Welcome, welcome, welcome. So I'm liking this idea of leading with love into the night.

What's our PJ masks into the night. We save the day, right? So when we lead with love, we save the day. When we lead with love at night, we save the day. What does that mean? That means that when we end our day with love, then it allows us to start our day with love, hopefully with those same feelings. So let me know where you're hanging out with me from what city, what time it is for you. For me, it's 9pm Chamber of Secrets. The Chamber of Secrets. And I had two things that I wanted to do tonight.

One is I wanted to just share this book, the Joy youy Make. It's written by Stephen Petro, who is a Washington Post contributor. I actually had the chance to meet him here in Minneapolis a couple of weeks ago at Comma Bookshop. The book is new, and so he's on his book tour and. Minneapolis, 9:00pm Same for me. So we are neighbors. And this book that Stephen wrote is about the joy you make finding the silver linings, even on your darkest days. And this is really. It was a really interesting conversation he.

That he had with a psychologist that was. That lives here that kind of interviewed him in person. I'm only. Oh, I don't have my bookmark. Oh, no, that bookmark doesn't count. I think I'm only like a chapter or two in. But one of the things that he says is to create joy in your life. Gratitude is a key ingredient. It is really about finding the goodness in the littlest things of your life because it primes your brain to continue focusing on finding good things. That challenge of, even if. Oh, even if the day is terrible, that we challenge ourselves to find one good thing.

And that really is about leading with love. Right. And I'm sitting here thinking about how at our dinners, what do we do sometimes when we have dinner together? What do we talk about? Uh, nothing. Nothing. We talk about our peaches and our pits. So a lot of some folks Call it their roses and their thorns. We. Oh, actually, it was plums, right? Our plums in our pits. We had plums. One day we were sitting and eating, so we said, we're gonna do plums in pits. So something sweet that happened and then something that may not have been so great, but that idea really helps prime the brain to look for the love, look for the joy, look for the things that are beautiful in our lives, look for the magic that's happening in our lives.

And with that in mind, that idea of magic, I wanted to share a new guess. I won't. I guess it's kind of a toy, a new toy that I got, and it is these. The Wisdom of Oracle Tarot cards by Colette Baron Reid. I have been on Colette Baron Reid's newsletter for a while, and she used to have this awesome digital tarot card website where you could shuffle this deck and click a card. And I swear, every single time I got the card that I needed. So I thought as we round out leading with love tonight, we can get a bedtime message from the wisdom of the oracle and.

Hi, Jules. I see you. It's been a while. I hope you're doing good. Hope you're all doing good. All right, well, since I have my sweet buddy here who should be in bed but is not, why don't you pick first? I need to see every card. No, just pick quick. Okay, can you tell me the number? 15. 15. All right. No, no, I need to see it. Okay. Oh, it's 14. He always teases me. Oh. So the card that was chosen for us as we head to bed is card number 14. Truth be told. So let's see what type of leading with love message this has.

I will just read. There's a couple of different interpretations, but I will read the essential meanings and the relationship message. Oh, and the oracles message. I'll read those two. So truth be told. Truth be told. Essential meanings. Honesty. Accepting things at face value, coming out of denial. The willingness to be transparent. Clarity of communication. The oracle's message. There is the truth, which is at the essence of a thing, and then there is a truth, subjective, according to the philosophy of the believer.

This is not a time for debate about which truth is truer. This is a time when you are called to proclaim your truth out loud and be willing to be transparent, honest, and open in your communication with others and with yourself. Nothing less than surrender to what is peeling off. The layers of denial that kept you tied to an illusion will set you free. Be authentic and gloriously flawed and spirit will answer with miracles. Whoa, that's pretty, pretty deep. Don't hold back. Speak your truth and listen.

So let's see. Truth be told. So tell your truth. And here we're also talking about the joy that you make and how do you make that joy by telling your truths of the day in terms of a perspective of gratitude, of wow, of thanks and awe for the cool stuff that's going on. Right. So it's is this idea of to create joy in our lives, we have to have this perspective of our truth in a light of goodness. And my puppy is ready for bed, so I'll leave you with that. Two different messages for tonight. To lead with love, taking gratitude and making joy by finding the goodness in every day despite us knowing that life is up and down, but then also claiming that goodness as your truth.

Right, because as it says, I think the key part for me here was there is the truth which is the essence of a thing, and then there is a truth which is subjective. So two people can go through the same day and have two different, like two completely different truths of that day based on the glasses they're wearing. Are they wearing, you know, dark shades that are showing them all the negative stuff or are they wearing rose colored glasses showing them all the positive stuff? And so we get to choose our truth and if we choose a truth of gratitude, we make joy.

So truth be told, you can make joy simply by looking for the goodness everywhere. And that formula is leading with love. So I'll leave you with that. Have a good night. Do you want to say good night? Good night, sleep well, bye. Or good morning? Or good morning.