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For a long time, I thought that someday I’d get things right and figure out how to have balance, work/life balance – all of it. And for some reason, I thought that once I’d figured it out, I would remain in this state of balance. And then finally, I found a new perspective. Balance isn’t a state of being but an ongoing process. Sometimes that means trying to balance one role off of another, other times it’s about balancing one idea off of another.  As a college financial educator, I try to stress this point to students, that it’s about striking a balance between livingRead More →

Half full cup

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In my previous post, I outlined the 3 reasons that you’re not happy and experiencing the metaphorical overflowing cup and I dove into not receiving as one of those 3 reasons. Today we continue by exposing the impact of feelings of unworthiness. In short, the feeling of ‘I’m not enough.’ I think we all deal with it and those who don’t deal with it, probably dealt with it in the past. I know that I used to, though I didn’t even realize it at the time. Thankfully, at just the right time I found videos from British therapist and author, Marisa Peer. She says thatRead More →

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I believe that when people aren’t happy, there are three main reasons: Having the wrong strategy. This happens because many don’t understand what happiness is and tend to look for it in the wrong places. More on this in future posts. Feelings of unworthiness, aka ‘I’m not enough’ this includes a multitude of ideas about being too old, too young, too tall, too short, too fat, too scrawny, not qualified, not educated, and so on. Not receiving. I believe that the saying that it’s better to give than to receive has created a misunderstanding in many that receiving is bad. That’s not what it says,Read More →

cow (decorative purposes)

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If money is an emotional subject for you, like it was for me, or if you think that money is bad, then I hope today’s post will help you to rethink things and change those feelings. I’m the type of person who likes to understand things and now that I’m a financial educator, there were a few things that I felt I needed to understand better.  One of those things was money.  We spend a lot of time trying to earn it, save it, learn about it, but rarely talk about what money is – so, here goes: Money is a tool for exchanging andRead More →