Finding the Balance
I have been in my current business for twelve years, and I am ready to make some changes. I have owned a private optometry practice for the past ten years. I am one of those people who always knew what they wanted to do. I finished my undergraduate work a year early so I could get into optometry school sooner. I assumed I would do this forever. I have not had multiple careers, reinvented myself, found my inner goddess, etc. Optometry school taught me how to be a good eye doctor, but nothing about running a business or managing money. My husband and I have seen our income grow, while, unfortunately, watching our debt rise as well. When you start making money after never having any, you feel like you deserve “stuff. ” We have made some realy smart AND some really dumb financial decisions.
I’m not sure if I am having a mid-life crisis. I don’t want to go buy a Corvette or study yoga in India, but I have come to a point where I want to work less and spend more time with my family. I am not ready or able to give up my income though, so how do you find the balance?
I began following personal financial blogs about a year ago and have found many bloggers who share my ideas and goals. I decided to start my own blog to so I will be more likely to stick to our goals. I hope to tell you about those in the upoming weeks. Maybe you can learn from the smart and dumb things we have done. Hopefully, I can entertain you enough to keep coming back. I know close to nothing about blogging. This is an excellent challenge for me. If I break some cardinal rule of blogger etiquette or if my site is not set up correctly, please know it isn’t on purpose.
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