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  • Direction of the blog and my J.O.B., redundancy?

    This journal blog of mine might be good for me with potential significant changes coming up in my life. Allows me a place to write out my thoughts.

    Let’s talk the blog, I am not sure what direction I am taking it – in terms of topics – but I have always been drawn to being an aggregator of topics. I don’t have a desire to make Frugal to FI a ‘finance only’ site. Budgeting, yes. But I want to mix in some DIY, coffee, buddha bowl making, gardening of some sort (might be tough as I no longer have a yard or a garden to tend), adventuring; enjoy life with or towards ‘financial freedom’. Sounds all the more fun, right? I also think I want to remove the exact personal monetary figures from my site. Or at least not hone in on my downfalls (like my savings struggle). But that is still to be determined.

    All that to say, in the beginning, you may see a rambling of a bunch of different topics as I grow the site. But in time, it will begin to take shape.

    Now for my job, there is a possibility of being made redundant. We all know the unnerving changes are coming. Well, I have an early morning call with my new CEO tomorrow. It will be the first time I am talking to/with him. Will HR be attached to the call last minute or is this a genuine call to figure out what is going on with my group? We shall find out. Wish me luck tomorrow morning.

    That to say, how would I handle the redundancy? One, take in some meditation and yoga for some deep breathing. Two, try not to freak out because it will mean changes in lifestyle. Moving or not moving. Take out a 72t or not. What type of job to interview next? I really don’t want to do corporate. Maybe Home Depot or a Lowes. What kind of hustling am I going to need to do. And do I have the energy for all this.

    But here is the deeper thought. Confidence in myself that I can create the life I want and use it as a platform for the blog and any socials. Like, what about moving to some land to build a place and document it on socials so you all can cheer me on as I grow my new life both with joy and frustration? That sounds kind of cool to me. But also sounds nerve wracking to put myself out in the world in that way; even though a tiny minute section of the social world.

    Life. One thing is for certain – it is always changing. The question is, can I handle this change with grace? That is to be seen.

    (we might just take the freak out route, lol).

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  • To Begin Again

    I forgot how much work it is to start a new blog for business emphasis. But I also remember how much fun it is! And while things have changed, a lot of it is still the same.

    Here are some of the tasks I am doing (so I can remember when I write a “how to”):

    • This personal blog for backlinks. Plus it will help to mitigate the real personal stuff off my main site
    • I need to get headshots
    • Setting up the main website + 2-3 subdomains. Why the subdomains? It helps to keep the core site running quickly.
    • keyword searches (done)

    I have all the basics set. Now to get to the meaty stuff – content writing. Not my favorite thing to do, but maybe eventually I will hire a writer for the core site. In time, as limited by budgets or not.

    I used to make to make a decent sum running a few sites. It was a lot of work, but I was my own boss. And it seems time that I need to make money for myself. But I have plans to try new ventures that will be a learning curve to me. I hope it makes a dollar difference and pads my semi-retirement fund.

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