Tag: Money
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Living Without Expectation
There is the five year plan, the ten year plan. It is all well to plan if we find joy in it, but what if we did so without expectation? What if we lived altogether without expectation? What does that look like? It means joy in the action-taking, not in the preconceived idea of […]
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What a Bike Ride Taught Me (or How I Am Learning To Stop Making Excuses and Live the Life I Want)
I rode my daughter’s bike to the post office today. Why is this even a big deal, you might ask? Okay, it’s not a big deal. It’s actually a really small act. I will share with you why I am so pumped up about it, though. When we moved to our small farm, we moved […]
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Where your treasure is…
Living with intention. Living in the present. Your authentic life. Living your best life. Thanks mostly to Oprah, these phrases have become a central part of our culture. I admit, though, that these phrases just all seemed kind of abstract to me, not sure how to really apply them in a way that could actually […]
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Saving Instead
Money. I think it really all changed for me when the paycheck stopped being directly deposited. No more magical appearance of funds into my checking account twice a month. I say ‘magical’ – it wasn’t like I didn’t work for the money that appeared, but it was abstract. I would go to my sales job, […]