I am curious about the stories people tell themselves about money. I have been gaining self-awareness about how my stories have majorly impacted my life and so I was interested to learn if other's stories have had the same impact on their own lives. A friend kindly offered to share her story with me. She already [...]
The stories that play in our head are often put there by what is happening in the world around us as we grow up. We hear the stories from our parents, friends and society and depending on how loud and prevalent they are, we tend to adopt them as our world view. When I was [...]
I think our beliefs and the stories we tell ourselves drive our lives. It is what your head is telling you that determines if you will have a good day or bad day. Yes, I believe we manifest our destiny by our beliefs. I came to this realization after a lot of self-reflection. What is it that makes [...]
Do you have your own business? Are you contemplating starting your own business? I recommend you think about putting structures into place to maintain work-life balance. Or not. Yeah, I'm conflicted about this. I love my job. I love it so much that other things have basically flown out the window. Today someone asked me [...]
When I think back on my life when my first born was in his first year, I recall thinking that I was soooo glad that I wasn't a single parent. I was in awe of people that were living as single parents. Fast forward a number of years and I find myself living as a [...]
I have a good friend who is very insightful, and she has done it again. She has inspired this week's post. We hadn't talked in a while and started discussing how we were each doing. She has Lupus - a chronic inflammatory disease that occurs when your body's immune system attacks your tissues and organs, [...]
I've been getting some very strong reminders lately about the importance of planning. Very strong. The main reminder I have been getting is that if you don't plan adequately for certain stuff in life, things can go very wrong, On the flip side, by doing just a little work upfront, life can go [...]
Last's week's post is missing. Where did it go? It got decimated by the negative internal chatter and negative future focus that was going on in my brain for the last two weeks. When I finally got out from it, this week's blog post presented itself: Your victimhood perspective is making you stuck. You know [...]
I have a friend and she has two sets of what look like playing cards, called Life Cards and Angel Cards. Every once in awhile, she drags them out of the cupboard and we pick one of each (without looking). It's something that takes about 10 minutes but it is an exercise that drags us back [...]
I recently did a set of spending plans for a couple that is separated. They are trying to sort of the how they are going to share parenting arrangements going forward. Their individual financial situations depend on what they decide. Are they going to share parenting or is one parent going to be designated the [...]