Don’t be motivated by money, or safety, or comfort. Don’t do what you think others want or will like, what you think will earn you love and belonging, what will make you seem cool or help you to fit in.
Be motivated by love.
Be love, embodied and manifested.
This is who you are: wise, compassionate, and awake.
Open Space Practice, (AKA: A Thousand Shades of Gray) 
Thanks Jill. I needed that today. Now I can get out of bed and do the things that need to be done because I know they are only temporary. In two weeks plan B becomes plan A. It was when he talked about training our children to live the same miserable lives we are living that it clicked for me. I’m living like my father did–doing a stupid job just for the money and security–and I definitely don’t want Lucia to do that. I want her to be a circus clown if that’s what makes her happy.
We just need to keep reminding each other, supporting each other (you tell me I’m not crazy, I’ll tell you that you are the most awesome kind of weird, and that neither of us are jackass whisperers) and I swear we are going to look back on this and laugh about how worried and angsty we were about it working out.
Right now Lucia is watching the old Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer that we used to watch on TV as kids and Rudolph and the Elf that wants to be a dentist are singing the “misfits” song. “I’m just a misfit. It’s strange that I don’t fit in. They can’t fire me, I quit!” 🙂
Misfit! 🙂