I spent years accumulating a life, and then I spent years quietly letting pieces of it go — without ever calling it that. I started as a secretary. Moved through accounting, became a controller, and then — gradually, for reasons that made sense at the time — stepped back. Part-time. Assistant work. Full charge bookkeeping. … Read more
This is part of Building It Live — a weekly dispatch from inside the Fully Lived Framework as we run it on ourselves before the September beta. Week 2. The question the workbook kept circling back to this week was simple and not simple at all: Is this week yours, or is it just what … Read more
For most of my adult life, I thought having goals meant I had direction. I always had a list — career goals, health goals, financial goals, trips we kept saying we’d take someday. Some years I hit them. Some years I didn’t. Either way, January would arrive and I’d start over, because that’s what you’re … Read more
May feels like the right month to talk about what’s been on the nightstand — and these four books for midlife readers landed at exactly the right time. Not because I have a reading program or a books-per-month goal. Just because these four have been sitting with me lately and each one hit differently — … Read more
What we decided to do differently this summer — and why we started last night. We Sat Down at the Kitchen Table and Began Not planning to start. Not talking about starting. Actually opening the pages and doing Day 1. The manuals have been sitting on the desk for a week. I’ve been working on … Read more
I don’t find motivation in the morning. I don’t look for it, I don’t wait for it, and I’ve stopped expecting it to show up on its own. What I do instead is remove every possible reason not to move — the night before, while I still have the energy and the intention to do … Read more
I wasn’t in crisis. That’s the thing that made it hard to name. There was no rock bottom, no dramatic moment, no morning I woke up and knew something had to change. Just a quiet, persistent dissatisfaction that I kept moving past — too busy to stop, too uncertain to look directly at it. I … Read more
May is the month the backyard actually becomes part of the house again. Here’s are out outdoor living favorites – everything we’re using to make the most of it — from the garden we skipped last year to the backyard movie nights we’re not skipping this summer. If you’ve been following along here, you know … Read more
There’s a version of your life you keep meaning to get to. Not some fantasy version. Not a different city or a different job or a completely overhauled schedule. Just the one you already have, actually used. On purpose. On a Tuesday. I’ve been sitting with how easy it is to keep waiting to use … Read more
It’s one night. You pack a bag.Drive somewhere close.Check in. Nothing dramatic. And still — something shifts almost immediately. Your House Is Not Neutral Your house holds everything. Not just your things — your responsibility. Even when you sit down to rest, part of you is still tracking what needs doing, what’s waiting, and what … Read more