Justin,

I am proud of you, my brother!

Thank you for sharing, and for the challenge to all of us to break out of a "socially-defined" life.

Very cool!

rick

-----Original Message-----
From: list-manager@stagen.simplelists.com [mailto:list-manager@stagen.simplelists.com] On Behalf Of Justin Abernathy
Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2015 9:40 PM
To: buffett@stagen.simplelists.com
Subject: Missing you tomorrow

Good evening, I hope most of you where able to gather for a great dinner and conversation before the workshop.

This is my first time missing a workshop in the three years of being part of a class.  I wanted to share that the reason I am out is that my family and I are starting one of the goals we set when I first took part in Stagen.  This was to move somewhere else for a year.  This has since modified and we wanted to move somewhere that would allow our daughter to be in a language immersion program.

This goal came about from the theme that came out of Stagen for me of proactively creating the future we want while Lisa was coaching me.  It would have been much simpler sticking with the easy path of routines we have in DC which by all accounts as socially defined are quite good.  Yet in the back of our mind I have had an unsettled feeling knowing we should be living into what we want beyond where we are.

Yesterday we took a giant step in this direction when we landed in Puerto Rico and are starting what we have titled "Our Family Adventure".  I am proud of us for the mindset we have held gearing up for the move since this has been all self imposed and during several points we could have changed our view to the drama triangle mind sets.

Instead this has brought Lorna and I closer together and focused around a common goal.  And as Lorna shared with me yesterday our daughter Tenley danced thru our new home from room to room with excitement when we arrived.

The bonus is this also looks like it will have a great benefit to us from the economic incentives for our business of being here.

Please come down for a visit we would love to host you.

I will miss being with you all and look forward to hearing your reflections on the e-journal and teleclass.

A couple things to remember to prepare for tomorrow.  Dig deep for yourself and the others in the room.  Be vulnerable.

With gratitude,

Justin

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