Clarity & Courage Gained From Almost Dying A near-death experience changes you. It challenges your whole perspective. On September 22nd, 2019, I was blind-sighted by Sepsis, a deadly immune response to infection. I’ve never heard of it, and so I hadn’t recognized the symptoms when it struck me. As far as I know, what got […]
Rethinking What’s Essential
When Your Current Goals Are Reduced to Zero I’m the type of person that plans and writes things down. Every quarter, I draw and re-draw by hand my goals to internalize what my short-term and long-term goals look like. I allot time for brainstorming to set my annual goals, which feeds into my quarterly goals. […]
Slow Down the Pace
Pause to Conquer Bigger Goals In a world that demands fast, live slow. If you told me that a month ago, I would repel the idea. All I knew was how to keep at pace, if not how to keep ahead with an environment that keeps moving. I’ve only known to have a full calendar […]
Living Intentionally Daily
Questions for Self-Reflection on When to Make a Change Moving to a new place has shifted my priorities. Like hitting the reset button, it allowed me to start from a clean slate. It felt freeing to walk into an open space of an empty apartment. We notice all the angles of our new abode, and […]
Attitude for Traveling Long Roads
Checkpoints for When You Want to Get There Already I learned an important lesson traveling about 2,000 miles by car over 6 days driving from Delaware to Texas. You cannot hyper-fixate on a destination; instead you must make the most of your journey. Relocating across the country has so many moving parts to it. Exhausted […]
Expectation vs. Reality
Sifting 4 Life Lessons from Our Big Move After many months of laborious effort waking up at dawn to pack-up a couple of boxes each day, I wanted nothing more than to wake-up to the day of our move. So I did… and yet it wasn’t how imagined it would be. I held a vivid […]
Savor Some Quiet Time
Calibrate the tone of your day before all the craziness When the alarm clock rings and you wake up to a brand new day, do you get a moment’s peace to internalize how great this day might turn out for you? Perhaps you belong to the other end of the spectrum where there’s just no […]
7 Self Care Ideas You Need To Do This Week
Stop Martyring Yourself Most moms can’t help but be selfless. It’s in the DNA of motherhood to cater to the needs of her family first. A mom’s love is sourced from what seems like an intrinsic deep well that never runs out. But this love must be expressed inwardly too so that we don’t deplete […]
How Much Savings is Enough?
It Pays-off to Pay Yourself First Haven’t we heard it one too many times that we need to put away savings? It’s true – and you and I need to hear it over and over again to remind us that it is the right thing to do. Whatever income that’s paid to us through our […]
5 Unconventional Ways to Save Money
Go Have Fun with These You want to save money, but how? What creative ways are there that won’t make you feel like your world is too rigid while you’re strapped for cash? It’s easy to sulk over every sacrifice that you need to make while in this dark spot. But that wouldn’t help your […]