Communicating Money

Money can be hard to talk about. I know it can be for me. As I have looked at my own relationship with money, I have started to notice something about myself. When money gets tight, uncertain, or uncomfortable, I can become defensive. And when I get defensive, I don’t always communicate the whole picture. […]

The Money Box

What Do You Believe? I have been thinking a lot about money lately. Not just how much money I want to make or what my financial goals are. I have been thinking about what I actually believe about money. There is a big difference. For a long time, I carried a belief that I wasn’t […]

Empowering Confrontation

Today I choose… A while ago, I woke up in the middle of the night knowing I had to have a difficult conversation the next day. And I was dreading it. I laid there for hours having the conversation before the conversation ever happened. What was I going to say? What were they going to […]

Stress and Money

Being an entrepreneur has taught me a lot about money. Maybe more accurately, it has forced me to learn a lot about my relationship with money. When I stepped more fully into building my own business, I carried a scarcity mindset with me. I didn’t necessarily recognize it at first. I just knew money would […]

Exhaustion

Do you ever notice that after a stressful day at work you’re exhausted? Well I had one of those days. It all started out that my morning routine got messed up and I didn’t have a chance to journal. Then everything with my nicely laid out calendar fell off the rails. It was one of […]

What’s Possible?

Today I walked into a field of canola. If you’ve ever tried walking through a thick canola crop, you know it isn’t exactly easy. The plants grab at you. Every step takes effort. You push forward, make a little progress, and pretty soon you start wondering if it’s worth continuing. Today, I didn’t get very […]

In the moment

Last night my wife and I wandered through the garden picking raspberries. Our cat followed us, weaving between my legs as if he was helping with the harvest. We laughed. We talked. We picked berries. Nothing extraordinary. Yet somehow, it felt like everything. As I stood there, I couldn’t help but think… These are the […]