When I committed to starting my debt free journey and setting my future self up for financial success, I had to change a lot of behaviors. Making these changes are the essential first step in changing habits around money. Success with money tends to be more about mindset than math. Behavior plays a huge factor…
Author: Coley Cole
How I’m Budgeting My Monthly Income
I’m living the budgeting dream I think I’m addicted to budgeting. You will have to pry my spreadsheets out of my cold, carpal tunnel syndrome-riddled hands before I stop. The addiction started about 4 years ago, innocently enough. As a college student I wanted to keep track of the limited funds deposited into my bank…
Creating a Relaxing Nighttime Routine
Here’s how I spend my evenings to wind down after busy days. Bedtime should be for relaxing and taking time to yourself after a long day. I highly value this time to myself and I’m grateful that I can make the space for this kind of self care at this point in my life. Sleep…
My Debt-Free Journey So Far
How I Started and My Plan to Pay Off Everything I’m no financial guru. I don’t have millions stashed away, nor the secret to getting those millions. What I do have are mistakes and the lessons I’ve learned from them. I want to explore those mistakes and my plan to rectify them in order to…
10 Journal Prompts to Start off 2024
Reflect on 2023 and prepare yourself to achieve your vision for 2024. We’re about halfway through the first month of the new year already! For me, these initial two weeks of 2024 have been crazy hectic with both a vacation and a death in the family happening just as the year began. For the past…
Designing My New Morning Routine
When life changes, your routine should too Life is anything but static. Through routine we can find stability in the chaotic, the unknown, the stressful. Routine can ground us with consistency, the daily rituals becoming like a prayer performed by our bodies. But even the most comforting of routines can become stale or not fit…
Packing Tips to Stay Organized
What I do to make travel prep easier Lately I’ve been traveling a lot for work. In the past four days I’ve been to about as many cities. I left for Indianapolis on Friday, Saturday I was back in New York, Sunday I left for Milwaukee, yesterday I was on my way to Cincinnati, and…
How to Find Peace (Hint: You Create It)
My tips on how to avoid burnout, maintain balance, and achieve inner peace Being stressed out, overwhelmed, and overworked with no time to yourself is not the vibe. Not only is it not healthy, it’s not how we’re meant to live. We are surrounded by a culture that demands our attention, pressures us to hustle,…
How to Create a Cleaning Routine
Stay organized and stress less with a squeaky clean system. If you’re anything like me, a clean home brings you inner peace and calms the anxieties that typically swirl inside your head. But if you’re also like me, you’re busy; between work, having a social life, pursuing hobbies, and dealing with basic life-admin tasks, cleaning…
Resetting After a Weekend Away
How I get back into my routine and organize myself for the week ahead… Click the pic to check out this video on how I pack for a weekend away! I absolutely love getting away for the weekend. It helps break up the monotony from my day-to-day life during the week. It also gives me…