I Don't Know What I'm Doing... But Who Really Does?
I have been told a lot over my life that by a certain point you will just 'figure it out' and that 'everything will just fall into place'. Honestly, I don't believe it. I don't think I ever did. I certainly hoped I would be able to 'figure it out' and that 'everything will just fall into place'. I spent my 20's struggling financially and well... just struggling all round. My mid-twenties shadowed by a health diagnosis that will follow me for the rest of my life, depression abounds. I spent time in therapy, learnt about setting boundaries and accepting situations, and emotions that come from them (highly recommend). It took a lot of work and I spent a lot of time working through guilt, feelings of failure, expectation, resentment, etc. I sat down with financial planners to look at how to structure my in vs. out flow of cash and tried to rein in my bad habits all round (still a work in progress but it is progressing). Essentially I took sto...
