Unrequited love, mirror imaged (magic mirror maybe, Narnia-ish) to Oh! Falling deeply in love in a mutually loving and supportive relationship that was always available, I just couldn't see it, yet.
I’ve come to realize I’ll simply never be able to retire, and will have to accept that. I’ve never made enough money to be able to afford to put aside as much as one is “supposed” to, despite living a thrifty life of deprivation.
What strikes me here, what I love, is her "stupid tax". Well, more honestly, I love the idea, the structure she's built into her system. The thing is, if you want to. teach your brain avoidant behaviours, call yourself 'stupid' and put it on repeat. What if instead we stop expecting ourselves to know everything before we learn it, before it pops up on our radar? Think of it as being a pilot. It's complicated (I haven't flown a plane, yet, so I'm just guessing). There are all these things to read on the dashboard. Are you stupid because you can't read them and you haven't learned how, yet?
Sounds to me like she's getting her systems in place. We live in a world that has become so incredibly complicate. We live on these websites that have infinite directions to go in and when you get something "wrong" it can be, well, disastrous. Really kudos to her for recognizing she didn't read the fine print and that she cannot possibly know everything and she's doing her best to invest in her own well being. I'd say, maybe, a "I GOT THIS, bonus bundle". or something like that. We'll never be able to anticipate everything. Life just doesn't work that way. You do your best! In the same vein, I wonder if she reads this article she will see she answers her own make up/beauty question? Why invest in other people's "pension" or "holiday fund" or whatever by buying overpricing, highly marketed "self-care, beauty, blabla culture" product when clearly she has plans for her own success? The best "beauty" product? Love. Do you look in the mirror and say, "I love you!" "What do you need today"? Work from the inside out. Water, good food shared with people you love, movement that feels good. Then go for the basics. Then think of the cash you're putting towards your personal investments, pensions or whatever. As women, I think we're often sold that taking care of others is what we are here for. I want to read that Good Mother book that's come out. We are all mothers, even if we have no children, because then we are "non-Mothers".
I love every bit of this! I don’t know the Good Mother book. Going to look that up. (I think even if we don’t have children, we are mothering ourselves.)
Unrequited love, mirror imaged (magic mirror maybe, Narnia-ish) to Oh! Falling deeply in love in a mutually loving and supportive relationship that was always available, I just couldn't see it, yet.
I love this, Corrine!
I’ve come to realize I’ll simply never be able to retire, and will have to accept that. I’ve never made enough money to be able to afford to put aside as much as one is “supposed” to, despite living a thrifty life of deprivation.
I think a lot of people are in the same position, Michelle.
Most of them just don’t know it yet :(
What strikes me here, what I love, is her "stupid tax". Well, more honestly, I love the idea, the structure she's built into her system. The thing is, if you want to. teach your brain avoidant behaviours, call yourself 'stupid' and put it on repeat. What if instead we stop expecting ourselves to know everything before we learn it, before it pops up on our radar? Think of it as being a pilot. It's complicated (I haven't flown a plane, yet, so I'm just guessing). There are all these things to read on the dashboard. Are you stupid because you can't read them and you haven't learned how, yet?
Sounds to me like she's getting her systems in place. We live in a world that has become so incredibly complicate. We live on these websites that have infinite directions to go in and when you get something "wrong" it can be, well, disastrous. Really kudos to her for recognizing she didn't read the fine print and that she cannot possibly know everything and she's doing her best to invest in her own well being. I'd say, maybe, a "I GOT THIS, bonus bundle". or something like that. We'll never be able to anticipate everything. Life just doesn't work that way. You do your best! In the same vein, I wonder if she reads this article she will see she answers her own make up/beauty question? Why invest in other people's "pension" or "holiday fund" or whatever by buying overpricing, highly marketed "self-care, beauty, blabla culture" product when clearly she has plans for her own success? The best "beauty" product? Love. Do you look in the mirror and say, "I love you!" "What do you need today"? Work from the inside out. Water, good food shared with people you love, movement that feels good. Then go for the basics. Then think of the cash you're putting towards your personal investments, pensions or whatever. As women, I think we're often sold that taking care of others is what we are here for. I want to read that Good Mother book that's come out. We are all mothers, even if we have no children, because then we are "non-Mothers".
Woah, Corrine!
I love every bit of this! I don’t know the Good Mother book. Going to look that up. (I think even if we don’t have children, we are mothering ourselves.)