This week we’re continuing our Creating Margin series by talking about Personal Growth and Development. I don’t know when I first started focusing on Personal Growth and Development. It may have been in high school, when I’d take an hour long walk in the evening with my 60-something neighbor and she’d ask questions about what …
One of the most stressful parts of our lives is dealing with finances. Many people grow up without solid financial role models in the home, and without schools teaching personal finance. Debt has become the new normal. The “Perfect Credit Score” the thing to pursue. If you don’t know what you’re doing, it can be …
The Art of Frugal Hedonism: A Guide to Spending Less While Enjoying Everything More When I first started reading this, we’d just gotten our patio set out back. I sat in the sun, and ate very slowly. I savored every bite and every word on the page. This book made me think about what my …
This week in the Creating Margin series, we’re going to talk about relationships. Specifically, how to curate relationships so that they have room or margin, to become inspiring, nurturing, loving lifelines with other people instead of anchors that weigh you down, stress you out and cause drama. “You are the average of the five people …
This month I’m talking a lot about create white space, or margin, in different areas of our lives. When you fill every inch of your life with something, what you’re left with is a stressed, trapped, busy feeling with little to no room for actual living. Overly-scheduled lives have become the new normal and here …
In recent years, there’s been lots of articles around this particular subject. In our go, go, go world, how do you stop busy from taking over your life? Sometimes, it’s not even about busy-ness, but also about the constant pressure of doing more, better and faster. All of this pressure just serves to add more …
March is nearly done already and I can’t believe it! I’ve been busy, busy, busy this month. I’ve found little ways to slow down and relax. Here are a few comforts I’ve been enjoying this month. The Cavendon Hall Book Series If you are a lover of Downton Abbey, like me, then you need …
ZuzkaLight.com – The Zgym The past couple years I’ve struggled with getting enough daily exercise. I’d try to wake up early, or workout after I finished working 8 hours and driving 1.5 hours in my commute (45 min there and back, if I was lucky). Then I moved to Montana and started working from home. …
I once heard Kevin Michael Geary of RebootedBody.com compare modern society, from a hormonal standpoint, to being chased by a bear, constantly, every day. You’re dealing with traffic, with loaded schedules, a dreaded commute, bills to pay, family to care for and somehow, you’re supposed to take care of yourself too. Your flight-or-fight response flares …
When my husband and I bought our first home, I struggled to keep up with the housework. It makes me anxious to come home from work and have a living room strewn with used dishes across the coffee table; mail, opened and unopened scattered about; halfhearted cooking attempts still lingering in the kitchen; piles of …
Sometimes the way to someone’s heart isn’t through expensive gestures, fighting other consumers for the same goods just so you can remind the person you love how you feel. Why not spending your time and energy creating an experience instead? Instead of going to an expensive, crowded restaurant… Eat at home Spend some time at …
GoodReads This handy website and app lets the avid reader (or wannabe avid reader) track their book consumption, rate and recommend books to their friends. I find this especially helpful since I read a lot and more than once I’ve found myself part way through a book I’ve read already! One of my favorite parts …
My first house, we hardly ever had people over because we lived so far away from family and outside of the city, so not much of a friend’s destination. One of our intentions with moving closer to family (45 minutes, 4 hours, 12 hours for the family we see the most) was to be able …
Grief is a funny thing. It hits each person differently. We may have shared experiences, but that doesn’t mean we all process it in the same way. My husband and I had a wonderful little Rottweiler pup in 2015-2016 named Lavender (Lavi for short). We took her to training classes for over a year. She …
Remember Gilmore Girls? Any time Lorelai and Rory would visit Richard and Emily, the first thing they would do is walk over to the bar cart in the living room and fix themselves a refreshment. No disappearing into the kitchen for a drink. Just a simple DIY set-up nearby allows the conversation to continue while …