Becoming the Main Character in Your Life

Help Fund My Adventures and Get Yourself Something Nice Made by Me! It could be safe to say that most of us grow up playing a character in someone else’s story. If I may assume, it’s typically our parents’ story or script. From day one, they dress us in what they want us to wear, feed us what they decide, …

How to Embrace Being Socially Awkward

Buy Handcrafted Notecards from Me and Help Fund My TravelsBeing awkward is something that comes very naturally to me. Despite what many people think of me now, I am absolutely internally awkward to the core. Social norms are not my strength, and I’ve learned how to embrace being socially awkward because it wasn’t worth feeling like I was always the …

Traits of Charismatic People – Why Charisma Matters

Help Fund My Adventures and Get Yourself Something Nice Made by Me! I recently listened to this podcast episode that sparked me to write this. Until recently, I thought charisma was a negative thing to have. It’s too often interchanged with charm, and I think charm is possibly one element of charisma. However, charisma is a much deeper deep dive …

How to Throw a House Party: Why I’m Really Good at It

Help Fund My Adventures and Get Yourself Something Nice Made by Me! The evolution of how to throw a house party successfully has been just that: a journey, an evolution. It wasn’t something I saw modeled for me in my family almost at all, so I had no idea how to do it when I decided it was something I …

My Night Routine for Success: I Love Sleep

Help Fund My Adventures and Get Yourself Something Nice Made by Me! Sleeping is something that I was told on repeat by my mother that I did not enjoy as a baby and toddler. It was likely because I lived in a chaotic household and was stressed out, but naturally (in her opinion) I was simply the issue. Nowadays, sleep …

Ways to Feel More Confident

Help Fund My Work and Get Yourself Something Nice Made by Me! Being a confident person is something that I would imagine most people want to achieve. Some people naturally have more than others, so it seems, and we wonder how that happens. There are those whose parents did a good job with helping them build it, and there are …

The Benefits of Shopping Local

Help Fund My Adventures and Get Yourself Something Nice Made by Me! In today’s ease of convenience, it’s easy to hop online to purchase this, that, or the other. It’s something I find myself doing for certain items rather than calling around or making an effort to step into a store. Growing up in a small business, it was impressed …

Hiring a Coach: Business, Life, Clarity, Mental, Financial, Physical

This is a topic that I have been wanting to write about for a while, but also a little hesitant about because of the connotation about hiring a coach. It has lately felt like every woman who hated corporate went into the coaching business and is making more than all of us combined. Sometimes it also feels like a cult. …

Why to Love Social Media

Social media gets a lot of bad publicity in my opinion. The way people choose to use it can absolutely be toxic, but that’s their choice. For me, I use it to partake in more positive and fun interactions, as well as promote my small businesses that don’t have a large advertising budget. Since I also don’t have a very …

Inexpensive Ways to Improve Your Mental Acumen 

We are bombarded every single day with information. Whether it’s on the television, through social media, or by other humans, we are receiving news. I don’t know about you, but it gets overwhelming at times, so I’ve had to figure out how to best let it into my life. Over the years, I’ve filtered out things that have left me …