Some words of wisdom from Treasure Island writer Robert Louis Stevenson kick things off:

"To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive."

and this bit of positivity from Shakti Gawain:

"What I'm actually saying is that we need to be willing to let our intuition guide us, and then be willing to follow that guidance directly and fearlessly."

Put that in your pipe and smoke it. It's more for me than it is for you but sharing it makes me feel a little less like a hermit. No, I haven't started peeing in milk boxes or wearing kleenex boxes on my feet - yet.