Leaving Scare City for Sufficiency

We canceled the Parenting from Sufficiency tele-course. I feel sad, disappointed – defeated, even. I am sharing this because transparency is a practice of Sufficiency, telling the truth, exposing the shame to the light. I messed up.

I thought because I had designed great content and flow and lined up extraordinary guest speakers that it was an obvious “Yes”. I know a lot of people. I have a lot of friends. I thought it was an attractive offer. At least half of everyone would show up. I thought.

The law of attraction theory notwithstanding, I was forcing a solution to the problem of wanting to talk about parenting and sufficiency with other parents. I didn’t have this in my life. The course would solve it. The course was such a great idea, solving other problems as well by providing money, convenience, opportunity to practice.

So, when people were excited about the course, but not registering, it occurred to me something Mark Silver, business coach and healer, says about making contact through your love and passion with people about what you are about: I have been hiding my passion for the conversation about enough, scared that I will say the wrong thing and put people off forever to it, scared that I have nothing to offer.

Scare City, as parenting coach Scott Noelle says. “Scare City is a place a place where you’re always afraid of coming up short,” he writes in his Daily Groove newsletter. And I have been living in it, and not even knowing it, kind of like Truman (in the Truman Show).

I have a new plan and it is aligned with my intention and integrated with my passion and open to the law of attraction: To talk with people about what they care about. And because I love to write, to write about it when I feel moved to. Sometimes it will be about parenting, or their dog, or a new recipe (and I personally do not enjoy cooking). I will also have a gathering at my house for parents who are interested in parenting from the vantage point of enough. This sounds fun. This is enough.

I love and admire Scott’s work so much, I am going to end with more of his words of wisdom:

To live the Good Life, you have to leave Scare City and go to a *dance* — a joyful, magical, healingdance where you release your fears and *shake your booty* like nobody’s watching: a-BUN-dance!

Here’s to knowing we are enough and letting it flow in the path of our passions.

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