Taking the Leap to Living on Less
Lisa Duncan
Internal thoughts after taking the big, scary leap of leaving my successful career for small-town living:
Money and titles and awards and peer respect and things like that. My future planning was as American as it could be .. I valued promotions .. titles .. respect from peers … money .. and continuous upward movement in organizations I worked within.
There were times over the years I thought my husband just didn’t get me. Or maybe he just didn’t ‘get’ my professional life and all that came with it. It is really only now I truly realize he ‘got it’ better than anyone else.
While he certainly was proud of me over the years for my omnipotent like titles and wizardly like business skills and increasing income, he loved me for something else — the person whose only title was wife and life partner and whose income was better valued as ‘time together’.
He married the me without a title and the income and the professional accolades and with the strong ambition to be successful .. well .. maybe better said .. to be good at what I do. I am still ambitious (just for something else other than what it was – whatever that was) and he still loves the “title-less, less income” me. I gotta say I love this man for that.
I also have to admit (the professional competitive ambitious side of me) it feels good to know he knew something I didn’t know. I admit I am still trying to learn about me from him. Thank god he is a good teacher and that he has the patience (and always has). I’m grateful he still loves me for all the same reasons he did in the beginning.
And maybe I have finally recognized all the things he saw in me all those years ago really are the most important things to make me successful in the next stage of my life.
I’m living proof that living on less, gives your more.
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You are the perfect person to write this blog! Can’t wait to follow it and learn how to live more frugal!
Kim,
Thanks for taking time out of your busy day to not only check out my blog but to write such a thoughtful and encouraging comment. Please do check back often as I post several new articles weekly. You too can be a Frugal Gal!
Lisa, I look forward to reading your blog and getting tips from you! This just may be what I have been looking for to change things in our daily life.
Cristine, I sure hope I can provide useful tips that can help you. It’s really about being mindful and making good choices — spending on things that appreciate versus depreciate. As a society we waste so much it’s amazing. My life change/income change was huge, but the quality of my life is tremendous now in comparison. You can’t put a price on that. Good luck to you in making the daily life changes and please let me know if I can ever be of assistance or offer up any advice.
Hi Lisa … I think we might have worked together years ago, as I found your blog thru a mutual friend.
What a wonderful message you are putting out there – and I’m very happy for you and your new lifestyle. I’ll be checking it regularly – CONGRATULATIONS!! 
Carol
Hi Carol,
Thanks so much for your interest and very kind words regarding my site. I am so glad that you discovered it through a mutual friend and I am excited to hear that you like it and plan to come back often.
Much Thanks,
Lisa