Last night at dinner we started talking finance. The moment I think about us being on one income, I start to panic and I start thinking of ways to make money, all of them involving precisely what I want to get away from. He stopped me. He said I needed to first make room for the things that will ultimately make me happy, and those things that are just temporary band-aids to me, if I keep doing them, I’m going to suddenly wake up one day to find that my whole life has passed me by and that I never did what my heart wanted me to do. He said the freelancing only fits in after I’ve made the space for the things I really want to do with my life. He is right and I need to remember this. Getting my degree was the best thing I ever did and I wouldn’t have been able to do it if I hadn’t given up corporate web developing. Now it’s two years down the road, I’ve paid a lot of my student loans down, we bought a house, and baby is on the way. The job has helped me accomplish these things and now it’s time for the next stage. Now I need to take some chances. I need to be brave. We are good at living frugally.<\/p>\n
Thank you Tom. Please keep reminding me of this, I’m sure I’ll forget again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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