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Blogging My Adventures

This past January I decided it was time to leave my full time job as a retail administrative assistant. After 13 years with the company and very little increase in pay, I knew it was time to move on. While I was grateful for my time with the company there was little opportunity for growth, personally, professionally or financially. I’ve been working online since January 2021 and right from the beginning, I was making more online than I was making at my full-time job often putting in as few hours as 15 to 20 per week online and almost doubling my salary of my full-time job. So the decision to leave was not a difficult one, at best all my dreams would come true at worst, I’d go back and get a similar job to what I was leaving. With a little to no risk involved I started my adventure and as part of that adventure I have decided to begin writing on my blog again. A couple of years ago I had this same blog it was monetized. It was beginning to earn money, and then it got demonetized the type of content I was creating violated some of the monetization policies. I tend to be a very all or nothing person and quickly became discouraged.

So here we are 2026 my fourth month of being self-employed and I’ve decided to pick up my virtual pen and begin sharing all of my scattered thoughts with you. I am keeping it in perspective. I don’t expect this to be award winning blog. I don’t expect to have a huge following, but what I am hoping to have is a small community of like-minded Gen Xers who may have found themselves in a similar position of starting over. Starting over with the original theme of the blog and I think it’s a good one when I started this blog as I was getting divorced or in the process of getting divorced, which took a really long time, thanks to Covid and now I’m restarting this blog to document starting my career over.
I am not claiming to be skilled in any way in blogging, computers, writing or even the ability tocommunicate my thoughts clearly I don’t know about spacing and double spacing. I wasn’t even good at typing when we had typewriter so I’m gonna do the best I can to put out a blog for you and I’m gonna try to do it every week and I hope you’ll stick around for a while.

Thank you for listening, Patsy.

7 Steps To Your Dream Life!

It’s time! The past few years have been about growth and change. Preparing for this moment. I’ve been doing a lot of work on myself. I’ve gotten sober! That was my step one for creating lasting change, eliminating my temptation to disappear into a bottle after a harsh defeat. Instead facing my fears and attacking them head on. Creating the life I want for myself for the rest of my life. This blog is about what I’m doing and how I’m doing it.

  1. I made a list of what wasn’t working . For me it was my heavy drinking, and poor sleep habits (partially caused by drinking) My periods of sinking into my problems through alcohol or sleeping away my weekends impacted my ability to earn and grow.
  2. Addressing the things I was avoiding. Really looking at my health, relationships, career and finances. I made appointments I’ve been putting off, medical, dental, vision etc. I looked at my earnings, and my debt. My assets and strengths and where I could improve.
  3. Eliminating or Detoxing parts of my life that didn’t benefit me but instead wasted time. This meant cutting out some people from my life that were having a negative impact on my mental health or were time wasters especially when it came to business.
  4. This kind of piggybacks number 3. Boundaries! I work full time outside of the home as well as about 30 plus hours a week at home. I was facing some serious burnout. Having my laptop, iPad or phone with me most of the time means I’m always getting messages, texts and emails. My day job is easier to unplug from but when working from home it’s hard for me to know when to take a day off. To further complicate matters I film a lot of what we do for digital content. I’m working to creat those boundaries of private and public.
  5. Accepting myself for who I am. That is not to say I won’t continue to grow as a person but it means being comfortable with who I am. Not everyone will like me . As a digital content creator on social media as well as on multiple adult platforms, everyone has their opinions about my nails, my hair and my body, what I show vs. what I should show, what camera angles they prefer and so on!
  6. New skills! Learning new things and listening to new voices, finding experts in the areas where I want to grow or change and seeking cousel. There are a lot of people willing to share how they got where they are. Sometimes for free and sometimes through a mentorship. There are so many resources, books, blogs, and YouTube channels offering advice on almost every topic from starting a million dollar business to creating a Tik Tok video! People are offering advice!
  7. New attitude! I’m learning a lot about mindfulness these days and how we think impacts every area of life including health and finance. How what we believe often informs what we do! What do you think about yourself? Your health, earning potential or ability to learn, grow and change? There are countless examples of people that achieved their dreams and goals by first believing they could!

    Connect with me! I’m always interested in getting to know people from all over the world, I believe we can learn something from everyone!