Handling The Hard Stuff

Category: Future

  • Set It and Forget It Finances

    It’s easy to get overwhelmed by budgets and financial decisions and paying off debt and saving for retirement and all the things you’re supposed to be doing when you’re in the throes of adulting. But when you filter it down just a little there are a few simple things you can set up and take…

  • Free up your free time

    In a world where we are supposed to be immediately accessible at all times because of email and texts and social media, it is easy to get overwhelmed by the noise technology brings to our lives. The flip side is that technology and automation can bring a lot of freedom to our lives if we…

  • Kill Your Ego

    We are socially programmed to want new/better/special things. We want to “keep up with the Jones’s”. We want everyone on social media to know how happy and fun and special our lives are. But when you stop and ask yourself, do you really want these things? Why? What need is it fulfilling? I remember when…

  • Seasons of Life

    We are not meant to be achieving at the same level forever. So many parts of nature have seasons of productivity and seasons of dormancy, why wouldn’t we be meant for the same? I am my own worst critic when it comes to my productivity. I must be doing something, making something, contributing something, achieving…

  • The Best Revenge is None

    They say the opposite of love is not hate, the opposite of love is indifference. The truest test of your progress or closure about the end of a relationship is whether you can truly just nothing them. The ends of relationships can be so emotionally hurtful. When you’ve been together for awhile, you know what…

  • Find Your People

    There are people in this world that will never support you. They will decide not to like you for their own reasons. There are only so many things you can do to change their mind and you will expend boat loads of energy trying to get them on your team. Only you can decide if…

  • Stop Breaking Your Own Heart

    Only you can choose who you let into your life. There are so many studies that talk about how you are influenced most by the six or so people you spend the most time with. Whether this is your family, your co-workers, your running buddies, friends, or neighbors, this shapes who and how you are.…

  • Build Your Budget

    Being responsible with your money is tough – for a bunch of reasons. Sometimes it’s because we just don’t have enough to go around. Sometimes it’s because the basics are taken care of so you’re not paying attention. Sometimes it’s because it is hard to think about the future and thinking about tomorrow tomorrow is…

  • Define Your Own “Rich Life”

    Breaking News: We don’t all care about the same things. My closest friends and I value things so incredibly differently. I do NOT care about having a nice car, I care that I don’t have a car payment. My closest friends have brand new cars – a few of them even lease them just so…

  • Legacy Building

    A lot of us are the first in our family to do a thing. For some it’s to complete a certain level of education. For others it’s to have a certain type of job or comfort level. Regardless, you and your ancestors have worked hard to get where you are. Once you have achieved a…