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A Single Mother Struggling to Budget Weighs the Balance Between Just Surviving and Really Living

Success

And fantasy, I’ve learned, is important, especially when your default setting is a fiscally stressful reality and “hobbies” that include devouring articles on finance, budgeting, inflation and retirement. I do have retirement accounts and 529s, though both have tanked, while my grocery bill (like everyone else’s) has crept up.

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What Being Pregnant During the Pandemic Taught Me About Cultivating Contentment

Success

And I’m not on speaking terms with my own mother, which adds an additional, often stomach-turning layer of stress and sadness to an already trying time. This article originally appeared in the September/October 2020 issue of SUCCESS magazine and has been updated. I have trouble going with the flow.

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Planning your job search

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An entirely new role or lifestyle. ALTERNATIVE LIFESTYLE (CHARITY WORK, VOLUNTARY WORK, RETIREMENT). A new lifestyle Stress and pressure of relocating your life. Firstly, it’s important to think about why you’ve decided to look for a job. Which of these roles are you looking for? What matters to you the most?

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29 Beautiful Stories That Will Restore Your Faith in Humanity

Success

With the support of generous sponsors, volunteers and donors, the couple has overseen a multitude of makeovers, giving families under incredible stress a huge home blessing and a new reason to smile. This article originally appeared in the July 2017 issue of SUCCESS magazine and has been updated. Mary Carlomagno. Secret Santa.

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What I Learned From Wearing the Same Outfit for 2 Weeks

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In a July 2016 profile , The New York Times wrote that President Barack Obama—who wore only blue and gray suits—daydreamed about retiring to Hawaii to “open a T-shirt shack that sold only one size (medium) and one color (white)” with Rahm Emanuel, the U.S. ambassador to Japan and his former chief of staff. The experiment was working!

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