Dare to Dream

Do you feel like a hamster, on a spin wheel that just goes around and around? Are you stuck in a life where each and every day is the same thing? Where what takes the bulk of your time and energy is draining you, bleeding you, and making you more tired than ever? Do you ever wonder where your passion went? How can you ever find time again to do the things that used to bring you joy, when each and every day just seems to be getting busier and busier?

If this is you, you’ve come to the right place.

Maybe you work out of the home, and a typical day looks like this: Get up, shower, pack the kids, drop off kids at daycare, grab breakfast and a coffee, sit in traffic and worry about being late, work on someone else’s agenda for 8 hours, agree silently when the boss adds even more to your already over-tasked plate, leave, sit in more traffic, pick up the kids, get everyone fed and ready for bed and when all that is done and over with you fall onto the couch in a blissful break, ignoring the piles of dishes and laundry, insisting it’s impossible to ever keep up when your day is as draining and exhausting as it is?

Or maybe you are a stay at home mom who spends her day dealing with toddlers refusing to use the potty, separation anxiety and clinginess, teething, growth spurts, messed up sleep schedules, little ears that don’t listen, a thousand and one “moms” all day, and rainy days where no one can go outside. Or you run around doing errands all day with your kids, who are going crazy, because what kid likes to be running around doing errands? You may have even had fun, and I know you love your children, but by the time they go to bed, you’re exhausted, the attention seeking means you neglected the vacuuming and laundry, yet again, and you’re constantly wondering if this choice to stay home and raise your kids will mean you can’t pay the bills this week.

Maybe neither of these situations is you, but you feel like in some way or form your daily life is sucking the soul right out of you. You end the day exhausted, with a to-do list seemingly a thousand miles high, and your body becomes a dead weight the minute you let your brain even think about trying to tackle it. It’s overwhelming, it’s depressing, and so you put it off, again and again, until its been 6 months, or a year, and the pile of paperwork you meant to file over a year ago is now a mountain so high you aren’t even sure if you’ve paid all the bills this month.

I can promise you this: you’re not alone. I’ve been there. I am there, and am determined to find my way out.

Imagine instead: your home is under control, not perfect, but under control; the bills are paid, the emergency fund is in place, and there is leftover for fun, or even travel; you decide where your time goes, and are intentional about it. You’re intentional about volunteering to the organizations that are important to you. You’re intentional about where your money goes, and how your actions are affecting the environment. You’re intentional about getting outside and self-care. You not only know what your values and passions are, but you live them. The kids don’t get too much screen time anymore, because instead they play outside, or games, or even with you. Your life is simple, your stress is low, you are pursuing your passions and feel like your life has purpose.

Does this sound like a life you can love?

This is what I’m on a mission to find. I want to help you, by helping myself. We will be on this journey together. I will share my passions, my knowledge, and what I know deep in my heart is possible. And as I learn to implement it, I will share everything I learn with you. We’ll talk finances, home, stress, family, passion, finding simplicity and contentment, and reducing overwhelm. I’ll answer how to find the joy, to end the day exhausted but excited, sore but happy, with a feeling of a passion and purpose in life, and knowing you aren’t on that hamster wheel anymore, but making a true impact in your small area of the world. Let this blog be a source of inspiration, of acknowledgement that you aren’t alone, and that things can be different.

Come on this journey with me, and I will teach you everything I know and learn.