Tag Archives: life

A Colorful Visit to One Of My Favorite Cities

By Nicole K | Published October 26, 2012

I’m so excited to discover that I’m giving myself permission to be myself. To have fun and enjoy my life for me and not solely as a momma. I make plenty of memories with my little person. But the Color Run was for me. Every powdery, colorful, skin-staining minute of it!

Posted in All Posts, Inspiration, Mamahood, Nicole, Season 7, Travel/Adventure | Also tagged choosing happiness, family, happiness, Joyful Living, living in the present, love, mamahood, nicole, nicole stratejoy season 7 4 Comments

Learning to move forward even when life isn’t perfect

By Nicole K | Published October 12, 2012

I know, life isn’t always going to go perfectly. In fact, it will likely be filled with many unexpected challenges. My hope is that I can get to a point where those challenges don’t set off a negative mental spiral. A point where I can treat myself with the love and forgiveness that I would show to others.

Posted in All Posts, Life Lesson, Nicole, Season 7 | Also tagged big dreams, Clarity, goals, letting go, nicole, nicole season 7 stratejoy, self doubt, self love, self-awareness, writing 10 Comments

It’s Been Real

By Sarah | Published August 13, 2012

When I got Molly’s email notifying me I was a finalist in the Season 6 Stratejoy Blogger search, I was getting ready to board a plane to the Blissdom blogging conference. It was late February, and I was just starting to come down from a bad winter. I was down and out, depressed, anxious, and suffering from esphagitus.

Posted in Inspiration, Job/Career/Work, Life Lesson, Love/Relationships, Quarterlife Crisis, Sarah, Spirituality | Also tagged challenges, Final Post, goals, Molly Mahar, overcoming challenges, overcoming struggles, sarah bagley, stratejoy, struggles, sunny side up, What I've learned 4 Comments

Faith, Death, and Tough Questions

By Sarah | Published July 30, 2012

There’s something I think about a lot. But I never want to talk about it outloud. Something that sets my stomach churning in that I’m-about-to-vomit way. My mind goes into hyperoverdrive. I want to squeeze my eyes shut and pull myself into a ball and try not to move.

Posted in Family, Love/Relationships, Quarterlife Crisis, Sarah, Spirituality | Also tagged anxiety, death, Molly Mahar, nervousness, QLC, Quarterlife Crisis, religion, sarah bagley, stratejoy, uncertainty, unknown 4 Comments

So Unknown, Finding Home

By Rachel | Published June 14, 2012

I’m not waiting on his job anymore. I can’t wait for us to get into one city. It would be perfect if the stars would align, and we would end up in the same city, amazeball jobs, and found the perfect house…but life doesn’t work like that.

Posted in Life Lesson, Love/Relationships, Rachel, Season 6 | Also tagged find your self, Job, love, QLC, quarter life crisis, self love, struggle, unknown 2 Comments

How Do You Slice Your Life Pie?

By Rachel | Published May 31, 2012

I’ve felt like I’ve lost momentum in many aspects of my life, which has made me stop, and ask myself how the hell do you balance everything in your life?

Posted in Inspiration, Life Lesson, Quarterlife Crisis, Rachel, Season 6 | Also tagged balance, be present, fierce love, momentum, negativity, procrastination, QLC, quarter life crisis 10 Comments

The Easy Life…NOT!

By Rachel | Published March 22, 2012

I was waiting for the easier part of life. Waiting for the good stuff, waiting for the perfect conditions to start, I closed myself off, locked down like Fort Knox, and held steady, I suppose in the hopes that the good stuff would just slide down into perfect alignment. Business ownership, boyfriend, financial security, happiness, fitness.

Posted in Quarterlife Crisis, Rachel, Season 6 | Also tagged easy, life isn't easy, QLC, quarter life crisis, waiting 22 Comments

Life, Love, and Audacious Joy

By Ashley | Published September 6, 2011

Considering where I was two years ago, my life doesn’t seem so bad today. It’s perfectly fine by many standards, but it’s still not full of that audacious joy I’ve heard so much about.

My 22nd birthday was spent sipping hot chocolate in front of the Eiffel Tower. That evening I realized how alive I was. An unforgettable moment accented by the twinkling lights around and above. That moment.

Somewhere over the past two years, I lost sight of my dreams, my moments, and began to settle into a “normal” routine.

And that is not okay with me.

Posted in All Posts, Ashley, Job/Career/Work, Life Lesson, Quarterlife Crisis, Season 5, Travel/Adventure | Also tagged finding joy, Living Overseas, love, quarter life crisis 43 Comments

Confession: I’m Directionally Challenged

By Laura | Published May 3, 2011

These last couple of months, my road feels a little bit like the New Jersey Turnpike, where I once drove in complete circles for an hour. Do you ever go through those phases, where you know the destination and what it looks like, but your damn GPS keeps messing up and sending you down some side street, or veering off onto the wrong ramp? It sucks.

Posted in All Posts, Laura, Life Lesson, Season 4 | Also tagged Confusion, life direction 4 Comments

30 Tips for an Extraordinary Life

By Molly Mahar | Published December 27, 2010

You don’t have to be perfect. You don’t have to be right. You just have to be as fully YOU as you can be, because that is your gift to share with the rest of us. Just you. You all of the time: in celebration, in pain, in joy, in acceptance. And on that note, I’d like to share 30 tips to help you lead an extraordinary life by embracing YOU in all your glory. Get ready to glow, sunshine!