Trusting Your Gut: Is It Enough?

Trusting Your Gut: Is It Enough?
Before I get into this week’s topic, you might have read last week’s post on how I feel seven months out from quitting my job. Yet here I am writing about my career experience this week. Why am I doing...

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Life After Quitting

Life After Quitting
At the time of this post, it’s been seven months since I walked away from my corporate career and quit my job. In some ways it’s gone by quickly. In other ways, it feels like it was so long ago...

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Everything Is Fixable

Everything Is Fixable
I’m an overthinker…maybe you can relate? I will replay a conversation, situation, or incident in my head over and over. I will obsess about how I could have handled it better, wonder what the other person(s) involved are thinking about...

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Finances, Part IV

Finances, Part IV
In this post, I’ll break down the four things we are doing right now to improve our finances. I’ve spent the last few weeks looking back on some of the lowest parts of my own personal story, and then how...

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Finances, Part III

Finances, Part III
Last week, I shared the nine things we started doing to dig ourselves out of debt. Yes, we had decided to get our finances in order. Yes, we researched ways to accomplish getting out of debt. Yes, we tried things...

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Finances, Part II

Finances, Part II
Old habits die hard. Even though we looked great on paper (healthy young couple, in love, recently married, baby on the way, able to buy our first home), we were still behaving like messed up college kids in terms of...

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Finances, Part I

Finances, Part I
It might seem like because I quit my job and am staying home now that we have had an easy path. Yes, we are very lucky and grateful for our current situation. I truly do realize that raising a family...

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You're not stuck.

You're not stuck.
You’re not stuck. When you feel like you’re at rock bottom and are so far off track from where you thought you’d be in life, please know that you’re not stuck. Things will shift; you are in charge of your...

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Momentum Matters

Momentum Matters
Momentum is real. I love the feeling of making progress on something – when you start something thinking it will be hard, and then feel yourself moving through it easily and efficiently. Maybe you can relate. Even though I love...

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