Before success frequently comes failure. Frequently, in fact, before success comes many failures, as in Edison’s oft-quoted 1,000 failed attempts at inventing the lightbulb. If you are anywhere on the journey of paying off debt, know that you learn from each and every mistake. Oddly, failing is good news – growing, and changing, requires failing […]
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Last month, I started working my way through Elite Blog Academy 3.0 by Ruth Soukup – a course which, admittedly, I had signed up for back in July. However, between getting married and a subsequent move (more on that later), I hadn’t had a chance to really dig in yet. As I work my way […]
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We haven’t written about it much, but let’s just say our dream wedding, underwater in Key Largo, FL, didn’t quite go as planned. The weather made going out on the boat impossible, so we last-minute changed to have our wedding on the beach (which was, admittedly, gorgeous). Our truck, which needed a new engine before […]
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Over the weekend, Don and I had a chance to sit down and really take a look at what we want to accomplish in 2017. It was an amazing process – and I’m happy to welcome Don as he kicks off a new blog series here on fishing, and outboard boat motor repair. More exciting, […]
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Sometime this summer, Don and I realized that life could continue plodding along indefinitely with only marginal happiness (okay – we’re actually pretty happy, we’re very blessed, but we were NOT living the life we wanted to live!). Unless we did something about it. For most of our relationship, we’d been escaping down to the […]
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Where were we? Oh, right – maybe work WAS the problem. After Don’s second heart attack, he didn’t go back to work. Instead, we started revisiting all of the ways that he might be able to assist with income without actually having a job. We’d both been self-employed previously, so we knew it took a […]
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We’re sick. Seriously. It took TWO HEART ATTACKS (his, not mine) – a direct result of crazy stress, crazy hours, crazy finances (and yes, smoking…ahem!), before my fiance Don and I realized that something about our lives was seriously broken. Probably, I should have figured that out long before….perhaps when I started having weekly anxiety […]
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