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Making Money Moves This Year

Maybe it’s just tax season, but around this time of year, I always start looking at my finances and really honing in on how I want to succeed financially in the months to come. While I’ve been blessed to escape the last year financially sound, I know many who haven’t. This got me thinking about the critical first steps I took, financially, when starting out. I’m sharing everything today in the hope that if someone…
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How to Deal With the Winter Blues

When short days and cold temperatures become the norm, it totally makes sense that we see changes in our body as a result. We are experiencing less naturally sourced vitamin D, we are getting less fresh air, and we’re isolated a bit more. The “Winter Blues” or in the more extreme sense, Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) is pretty commonly talked about in the north east. Whether it’s your neighbor’s annual trip down south or your…
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Finding Motivation Within Yourself

Finding motivation within yourself is hard. I feel like I’ve mentioned this on the blog a lot recently, but if you haven’t read Gretchen Rubin’s work on the Four Tendencies, I highly suggest it. Take the quiz, while you’re at it! Unless you’re an upholder or a questioner, you might struggle, like me, with meeting inner expectations. Fun fact: most of the world does! As we enter the New Year, the pressure to do better…
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My One Word Vision For 2021

I recently read “One Word That Will Change Your Life,” and was amazed to realize that I utilized this process in 2020. In January, I posted that 2020 was my year of joy. Joy. One word to drive my focus, intention, and action within the year ahead. Now, I’m making it a practice to selecting a one word vision for the year ahead. My One Word Vision for 2021 – Grace In selecting my word…
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My Personal Manifesto for 2021

Gretchen Rubin inspired this post with her Personal Commandments. However, I don’t feel I’m in the right place, at this point in my life, to select statements that embody my whole existence. Instead, I’m picking five statements to embody the year I envision having in 2021. This is my personal manifesto for 2021. They are words to live by. We’ve all got them- but making sure we remember them when we need them is what’s…
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My 21 Things For 2021

I always make new year’s resolutions and for the most part, I’m always good about keeping one or two. However, after reading Gretchen Rubin’s book “The Four Tendencies” and realizing I’m an obliger, I understand why I might not see them all through until the end. Furthermore, taking a page from Rachel Hollis’ book, I know that I need to start small if I want to grow positive habits in my life.  These years, in…
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Check-In for 2020

I was listening to episode 146 of Rachel Hollis’ “Rise” podcast on my drive home the other day and she was speaking to this crazy quarantine time we’ve all found ourselves in. She was speaking to the idea that, we need to reset our goals for ourselves, for this year. Whatever plans you had, long term plans/dreams/goals- they need to be put on hold. This year is going to look different than any other and…
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A Twenty-Something’s Guide to Living Through a Pandemic

Ah, COVID-19. The experience none of us ever wanted or anticipated. The other day, I was thinking back to when this all started: there were whispers circulating around school, I was asking Ryan to go out and stock up on a few extra rolls of toilet paper. “Just in case!” I said, and he laughed. Even after two months of news, the way COVID-19 came in and upended our lives was shocking. The world fell…
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A Twenty-Something’s Guide to Self Care

I feel like self care is a term thrown around so frequently that it’s starting to get a bit of an eye-roll response. Be honest, what’s the first thing you thought of when you read the term in that last sentence. Bubble baths? Face masks? There is so much more to self care than treating yourself to the occasional luxury. We live in a day and age where we are constantly connected, constantly bombarded with…
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Sharing My JOY List

Rachel Hollis recently published a challenge on her blog: make a JOY list! Her advice was to sit down and make a list of things that bring you joy and contentment. I published a post back in January about how I want this to be my year of JOY, so this activity feels very appropriate. One way to psych yourself out of the winter blues? Remember all the great things that bring you JOY. Here…

Finding beauty in everyday moments and figuring out the rest as I go along

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