you’re in the driver’s seat

I’m about to ask a question that’s completely overused. Stick with me, there’s something to it.

How can you grow… if you don’t invest in yourself?

Intentionally investing in yourself is making a conscious choice to commit your time/money/energy into improving yourself; current & future.

Story time.

When I chose to leave my job as a Nutritionist for the local school system to stay home with Charlotte in 2020, I had no fucking clue what I was doing.

My career meant a lot to me. So did Charlotte.

I had spent years in college to earn a bachelor’s in Nutrition & Dietetics for a REASON.

Then again, I could only see her grow up once. I had to make a choice.

I decided that being home with her until she at least entered public school was the move.

Fast forward 2 years.

I felt a nagging pull starting to develop (which, spoiler alert, ended up leading to the founding of my company)!

The pull…to help those that needed what I knew. What I knew I could offer to them—and successfully.

I signed up for nutrition coaching certification courses to get the morale up even higher.

Just one teeny, tiny problem…

I had ZERO time to get anything done. Y’all. You know what I mean if you have a kid under 3 😅

But the internal nagging pull wouldn’t stop. I HAD to do this. And anyone who knows me, once my mind is made up—that’s it.

So I made another choice.

I enrolled Charlotte in a part-time daycare. She gets the social interaction with other peers her age and is thrilled to go to “school” when she wakes up in the morning. In turn, I get the time to do what calls me (other than motherhood).

The point of this I’m trying to say — you make shit work for the shit you want.

Yes yes, there are a million other variables and situations that might not apply, don’t @ me 😂 (is that still a thing?)

Could I have accomplished this with Charlotte at home full-time? Maybe. Probably would have been hell, but maybe.

To the moms that CAN do that, kudos. For real. That shit’s hard.

I want my daughter to look at me someday and think “Mom chased her dreams. Mom took care of herself, too. Mom prioritized herself, too.”

I want her to know she can do anything she wants, unapologetically.

Obstacles are going to happen.

You can let it stop you right then and there. Or you can find a way to work around it & keep trucking forward.

Invest in yourself, no matter how big or small.

You’re in the driver’s seat. Where are you headed?