Let's all wish our member, @Scott Cohen a happy birthday!

The perfect day begins by waking up with 2 women who love me, somewhere that's sunny with a high of 82. I wake at 6:30, spending an hour on my fitness outdoors. I stay outdoors to unwind, topless in the sun reading and meditating, before relocating to a café with good pastries and outdoor seating to continue reading. Around midday I meet up with one friend for lunch and conversation, something heady and material. I spend afternoon inta early eve engaged in some sort of flow state labor, physical or mental, remaining engaged the whole time. In the evening I reconvene with my loves for a steak dinner followed by a disco nap, then we go out to a techno club, dancing with friends and socializing until 3:30am (which is early). We head home for a threesome and fall asleep holding each other.

One of the peculiar things I've noticed about exercising courage in one area is that it doesn't necessarily translate to every other area. I've been deeply courageous in my social life and fitness, putting myself in embarrassing, uncomfortable situations repeatedly for years until I sorted it out. But I'm still sort of terrified to do this in my career.

Self-compassion is always something I have struggled with. I'm very demanding and hard on myself because I know I'm capable of a lot. But I have a decent bit of trouble separating that drive from the shame that comes with not living up to it.

I'm just beginning this course and already I am beginning to see the work that needs to be done to be set free from those attitudes that held me down over the years.