January 25, 2024 – For the past year, this website has been just sitting here as “coming soon”. I had all these ideas of what it would be like and how it would succeed in helping me overcome a shocking event.
You see this time last year before I started the webpage, I was working this great job. It was a small company, hours were great, pay was decent, been there for over 6 years and we had become a family. So when we were all called into the office we just assumed it was updated news on our boss who had been sick the year before. Instead it was us being notified that the company was closing…..in just 2 weeks.
I guess I had, we all had, ignored all the little signs that we needed to make some changes in our life. We had become too comfortable in what we were doing and the only way for us all to wake up was to give us a really good shove….this was that shove.
Luckily through a coworker I found another job (so did she) and the two of us started on a new adventure within a month. Similar work but a different workplace, different hours, no more commuting all over the country and definitely better pay and benefits.
The website I had started in the month of unemployment just continued to sit there. The idea of becoming a notary happened, but I didn’t do anything beyond that. Ideas I had had before about blogging on the books I was reading, the products I was testing, just sat in my head as well……I just became too comfortable again.
But added to that comfort was stress, more stress than I had before. While I was making more money, I seemed to have more bills, or the bills I had seemed higher now. One day off I took a good long look at everything and realized I had blown the first chance I had to fix it all. When trying to figure things out, I looked at this website and decided to give it up, just take the loss of money. But then I got a little nudge or two saying keep it but just go in a slightly different direction.
First nudge was books. For several years now I have been honored to get advanced copies of books before they are published to review. Some are romance, some are fiction, some are historical fiction. But in the last few months I have actually been getting more opportunities for this even though I do not have a website or social media account to promote them on. I had done a blog account years ago on books but just let it slip away. So now I have decided that it is time to start again, they will be talked about on here and I have started an Instagram account specifically for books and reviews. I will post links for that shortly.
Second one was my daughter who is married to a guy in the military and they are about to PCS. She had little information and some of it was wrong. Luckily for her she had me. She knew that as a former military spouse I knew stuff, she knew I still had friends that knew stuff and she knew that I worked for a large military website for years helping others. So I sent her all the links that I had and gave her advice on where to go. She said she wished that she had groups like I had when married, because she knew of lots of other spouses out there who needed help. As I get some more time I will actually be having a page on this website with information for military families, including links to locations and other websites that can help them. I will also be offering my own help when I have the time to make sure they are going in the right direction.
There were some other small nudges that I just won’t go into right now but just know that they were definitely clear on what I need to do. If I want to make a difference in my life and help others make some difference in their own, then this is one way it might possibly be done.
The website will now be up and running. Please excuse any mistakes and things I have made because well I am still working on it. Just know that I am an email away.
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