To live a well balanced, rewarding life of our dreams by day and sleep restfully at night.
If you love social media, join me!
Published April 29, 2013 | 
We are each gifted in a unique and important way. It is our privilege and our adventure to discover our own special light. ~Evelyn Dunbar
Dear Friends:
I embarked on this Warm Milk Journal journey over three years ago now. In this process I have met so many great new people, shared ideas, and most importantly: found my voice.
I found my voice here at The Warm Milk Journal and on various social media sites such as Twitter, Facebook, Google+. LinkedIn, and Pinterest.
I have found social media to be so much fun and very powerful. My Tweet others the way you want to be tweeted: 15 lessons I’ve learned on Twitter
post is one of the most visited posts of all time.
With that I wish to share with you my new business. At the end of this school year, I will be working full time on my social media management business and continue to create and grow The Warm Milk Journal.
Here is my invitation.
If you:
1. love social media like I do,
2. wish to improve your financial situation or change careers into something more fulfilling for you (that has unlimited and residual income potential),
3. have experience with sales (especially B2B) or you are willing to learn…
Then I would like you on my team.
If this sounds like you, I invite you to go to my business page, fill out your basic information (at no cost or obligation to you), look at the site, and register for the live conference call with Joe Grushkin and George Gillas. These guys are great. I have already learned so much from them about doing business (the right way)!
Please tell them that Debra DiPietro from The Warm Milk Journal sent you.
You will always be able to call me or email me personally too. I am busy growing this business here in Jacksonville, Florida. It doesn’t matter where you are in the USA or in the world for that matter. You can do this business no matter where you live.
Click on my business link and check this out.
We have been supporting each other in so many ways, why not take it to the next level and join me in this business opportunity that has no limits?
Go to Debra’s business page
now.
If this opportunity is not right for you (and it won’t be for everybody), please just be happy for me. I have found something I am very passionate about (along with The Warm Milk Journal, of course)! 
In peace (and to our living the life of our dreams)!
Debra
Don’t aim for success if you want it; just do what you love and believe in, and it will come naturally. ~ David Frost
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Today was a great day! Tonight’s journal writing exercise.
Published May 16, 2012 | 
As the day ends, and we ease ourselves into the mellowness of the night, it is wonderful when we can sit back and think:
Today was a great day!
I guarantee you that if we end our days feeling this way our chances of getting a good night sleep improve tremendously.
I invite you during your journal writing time tonight to write on the top of the page: “Today was a great day!”.
Then list as many things as you can think of that affirm your declaration.
I challenge you friends, to do this even if you do not think you had a good day at all. Reach and see if you can think of some good that came of this day…
Shall we give this a go?
Let’s see….
Today was a great day!
These are the reasons why:
1. I found out today that I get to remain at the same grade level (next school year) with the same teaching partner and subjects (I am a fifth grade language arts teacher and I love it and I have a great partner to work with)!
2. Although storms were forecasted, we had no rain for our annual outdoor play day at school.
3. We have smoked salmon, bagels, cream cheese, and tabouli ready to eat for dinner tonight (with pina colada sherbet for dessert)
4. I had a great talk with my husband this afternoon when I got home from work.
5. We are enjoying some prosperity! Yes, checks are coming in (always a good thing)!
Your turn, sweet friends. How was your day great?
In Peace,
Debra
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How can you keep your eye on the prize if you don’t know what the prize is?
Published March 30, 2012 | 
Are you dreamy? Do you drift? Do you ever want something more or different for your life?
How can we live the life of our dreams if we are not sure what we want?
To get clear on what you want I offer you this morning these five ideas:
1. In your journal or on a piece of paper, write down 100 things that you want to be, 100 things that you want to have, and 100 things that you want to do.
2. Imagine that you only had a few months left to life. What would be most important to you then?
3. Read about and talk to people who are doing what you want.
4. Express your desires to the people closest to you. Ask for their support (there is also the element of accountability when you share your dreams and goals with others).
5. Keep trying new things and be persistent. It is easy to give up quickly. If you believe in something, stick with it.
If you always do what you’ve always done, you’ll always get what you’ve always got.
Have a blessed day,
Debra
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Five things to list in my gratitude journal this morning- what are you thankful for?
Published June 23, 2011 | 
Five things to be thankful for right now:
1. Another day of life above the ground- that’s a good thing!
2. A day with purpose and promise.
3. A chance to create for each time I focus my mind I create a new beginning.
4. All of the supportive people in my life.
5. The full shelves in my pantry and refrigerator which represent food that will nourish me throughout the day.
Your turn- what are you thankful for today? Write it down in your journal.
Have a blessed day.
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This morning’s gratitude list and dream list: a journal writing session
Published June 8, 2011 | 
Good Morning.
One powerful exercise we can do in our journal writing is cultivate a sense of gratitude for everything we have presently in our lives. We do this by writing down what we are thankful for NOW.
Next, what we focus on grows. Therefore, what do you truly want for your life? What are your dreams? We so often get caught up in the busy-ness of daily life that we can lose sight of our dreams. Before we know it, years have passed by and we are not living the lives that we really want for ourselves.
This morning’s exercise has two parts and it is simple.
1. Write down what you are thankful for this morning. Really feel that sense of gratitude well up within you. Feelings are important. If you can get into that feel-good appreciative state- you will be blessed with more good things in your life.
2. Write down a list of your dreams. What do you really want for your life? Imagine..feel… then develop a feeling of gratitude for these things now as if they have manifested already. You have to believe that your dreams can come true!
I will model just a few notes for you. My journal entry this morning would look like this:
Gratitude List
I am very thankful right now for:
1. My sweet husband who is sleeping peacefully as I write this.
2. My health.
3. The fact that there are only a few days left of this school year.
4. The Warm Milk Journal is growing and flourishing.
5. My beautiful home here in North Florida.
My dreams are:
1. To prosper as a full time writer
2. To be free and have the money to travel and take adventures with my husband as often as we want.
3. To live closer to the ocean.
4. To have a home with more room to garden, a nice deck or balcony, and a large shop/garage in the back for my husband to enjoy his woodworking hobby.
5. For my teenage son to get on a healthy and productive path and begin his life as a responsible, happy young man.
Your turn!
Have a blessed day,
Debra
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Leave a commentFour ways to Call the pity party off and Bless and love what you want
Published April 12, 2011 | 
Rather than whining and feeling sorry about ourselves for all the things we don’t like about our lives, why not focus on what we do want?
I am human and I do from time to time catch myself in a negative state. When the pity party threatens to overtake me, here are some things that help:
1. Find something (anything!) to appreciate about my life.
2. Look around me and if I see others enjoying something I would like to have more myself I bless them and feel happy for them.
3. Remember that I am in charge of my life. I am bigger than my circumstances.
4. Having faith and KNOWING that I am working to create the life of my dreams TODAY.
A good resource that I recommend is Rhonda Byrne’s (Author of The Secret) latest book: The Power. The message is a simple but powerful one:
Love what you want. If you don’t like something about your life, don’t worry about changing the negative thing. Instead, focus love on what you want. By doing that you will create something (wonderfully) new.
Have a blessed day,
Debra
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Three lists for our journal writing, including my list to Santa
Published December 18, 2010 | 
I love to write lists. It is an enjoyable and relaxing activity. If you are having difficulty sleeping I recommend getting up and writing some lists in your journal. While you are writing your mind will be so focused on your lists that you will forget that you were struggling with insomnia. Soon enough you will get sleepy again.
Three list ideas for today: your favorite places, places you would like to visit for the first time, and a list for Santa
My ten favorite places in the whole world:
- My home
- Atlantic Beach, Florida
- The island of Oahu, my childhood home
- Seattle, Washington
- Switzerland
- British Columbia
- Stockholm, Sweden
- San Diego, California
- Disney World
- Universal Islands of Adventure
Ten places I look forward to visiting one day:
- Asheville, North Carolina
- Italy
- Spain
- Africa
- Washington, D.C.
- Kauai
- Maui
- Paris, France
- The Netherlands
- Turkey
Ten things for my list to Santa this year.
Dear Santa, I have been good this year. Here are my wishes. I thank you in advance for your consideration:
- I wish for my work life to be creative and financially rewarding.
- My wedding in March to be a beautiful day so that we can marry outside in the park like we want.
- For my fiance and I have to have a long and happy life together.
- Great health
- Time with good friends and family
- Adventure
- Inspiration
- The real estate market to pick up
- Frequent smiles,hugs, and laughter
- Restful sleep every night.
Thank you, Santa.
Much love always,
Debra
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Five Morning coffee affirmations
Published October 27, 2010 | 
Good morning world! During your morning quiet time you may get out your journals and write down any of these affirmations that resonate with you today….
- I enjoy work that rewards me financially.
- I view challenging situations or people in my life as important lessons for me to learn.
- I am thankful for……(you complete this).
- Today I will look for the divine in all living things.
- I am above the ground. I am alive. Each step I take today, I will breathe and think, “thank you”.
Have a blessed day.
Debra
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Flying to greater heights
Published October 10, 2010 | 
I wish to fly above it all, to soar to a much higher level where I :
- No longer judge my partner or others
- I choose to focus on loving and serving others rather than worrying about being loved enough myself
- stop worrying about things that have not happened (and probably never will) or things that are not in my control.
- See the innocence in people I feel challenged with.
- no longer identify with my job, the amount in my bank account, or my credit score.
- know with absolute certainty that anything is possible and that I can live the life I am intended to live starting now.
Debra : )
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Posted in Affirmations, finances, Love, Prosperity, Self-empowerment | acceptance, agape love, free, life's purpose, positive affirmations | Leave a commentWhat’s possible?
Published September 20, 2010 | 
If failure was not an option, what’s possible?
What’s possible….
- for your career?
- for your family?
- for your love life?
- for your health?
- for your community?
- for your spiritual life?
- for adventures and fun?
- for your bank account?
- for your living the life of your dreams?
What’s possible?
Debra : )
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