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Glennon Doyle

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
2155 total appearances

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We Can Do Hard Things
Your Nervous System Needs This

What was the question?

We Can Do Hard Things
Your Nervous System Needs This

So I will tell you a particular familial story that just happened a few days ago that I know is tied to this.

We Can Do Hard Things
Your Nervous System Needs This

And I know that Abby would give me permission based on a lot of the other things that we just, that I've talked about here, what we're going to do to get our

We Can Do Hard Things
Your Nervous System Needs This

the sacredness of our relationship back, to get capitalism out of our love, to get work dynamics out of our, anyway, a lot of that.

We Can Do Hard Things
Your Nervous System Needs This

And Avi was talking about a project she wanted to do which had nothing to do with like relevance or attention or money or any of those metrics that we are taught to strive for and think that the only things that we do are worthy if they win those things.

We Can Do Hard Things
Your Nervous System Needs This

Basically, she was like, so is it okay if I make no money, right?

We Can Do Hard Things
Your Nervous System Needs This

She said it more flowery, but that's what she was asking.

We Can Do Hard Things
Your Nervous System Needs This

Now, when you hear the story, I want you to keep the context of the story, which is that we have a lot of money, like way too, like it's just enough.

We Can Do Hard Things
Your Nervous System Needs This

So this is different for like, and I'm telling you that so you can see the insanity that is there even when there is no scarcity.

We Can Do Hard Things
Your Nervous System Needs This

So I said, yeah, I think it's okay.

We Can Do Hard Things
Your Nervous System Needs This

beautiful if you want to remove money as a metric from what we do but that if we're gonna remove that then I also need to remove the metric of wanting more needing more the next thing the next thing because we have arranged our life to only be aimed at what's next

We Can Do Hard Things
Your Nervous System Needs This

So what are we like?

We Can Do Hard Things
Your Nervous System Needs This

We need a grandma retirement house.

We Can Do Hard Things
Your Nervous System Needs This

This is the thing we've made up in our head.

We Can Do Hard Things
Your Nervous System Needs This

Now our kids are 23 and have no partners.

We Can Do Hard Things
Your Nervous System Needs This

So what we need is a lake house where lesbian grandmas live that we're going to call the homostead that...

We Can Do Hard Things
Your Nervous System Needs This

Kids will play corn hole in, I don't know.