Do I Stay or Do I Go Now??

How many times have I dreamed of taking a trip to a beautiful place and sitting on the white sand?  A lot!  But how many times have I actual done something like that?  

I never thought I would be agonizing over whether to go on a FREE trip or not, but here I am, doing just that!

I am not a traveler. I have been to like 10 states, and that’s it. I went to Hawaii once with my family in 2001. I loved it, had a ton of fun, but haven’t done much since. We didn’t even go far on our honeymoon. We went to Big Bear, which is like an hour away.
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I’m not saying this to complain, but to seek advice. I have the opportunity to go to the Hard Rock in Punta Cana in 2017(gorgeous right?). As a Beachbody coach, I could earn this trip and have it completely paid for. My problem is, since I haven’t ever traveled that much, I am kinda nervous about going that far. I wouldn’t want to take the kids, so it would be a cool 10 year anniversary trip(if you just pictured Charlie in shorts, don’t laugh-you know he would still be in Wranglers, haha!), but I would be worried about leaving the kids too.
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I don’t leave my kids anywhere, the farthest away I have been from Boston is when he went to Disneyland and I didn’t.
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So, I guess my question is, If you had this opportunity what would you do?

*My husband and I talked for a little while weighing our options and guess what?  We decided not to go.  Since I have started coaching we are actually going to have money to go on vacation(like a real one) this year.  We would LOVE to go somewhere like this in the future, but for now, we are perfectly happy planning our trip to visit family. *

While we were agonizing over this it got me thinking about passports and all that fun stuff that we don't have.  I decided to travel to our library and finally pick up little boys birth certificate.

While we were there, I couldn't help but stop by the personal development section, I used to spend a lot of time there.   

I  have a growing obsession with the books about bettering yourself and your situation.  In the last few years I have read countless financial books like the Total Money Makeover,  Rich Dad, Poor Dad and Think and Grow Rich.

I even bought a few about real estate investing a few years ago. Too bad that takes money to get into, and now those books are gathering dust on a bookshelf.

I put allot of the Dave Ramsey advice into play,  but not much has changed over the years, because well, life happens, emergencies happen and baby step #2 is hard to get through. Heck, it's hard sometimes to not to revert back to baby step #1!

A few years ago, we were actually making progress.  We had our credit cards ALMOST paid off. Then my a few things happened including my car dying. We had to use all our savings, our emergency fund and our tax return to buy another one.  We were going to buy a used car, and even looked at a few lots and found a few nice cars, but nothing ever FELT right. You know that feeling?

Well, we found a car.  My old lady car!  It has 4 doors and that is all I cared about(if you've ever put an infant carseat into a two door Honda, I feel your pain!)  We had to borrow a little money to pay for it, but it was done and completely paid for in 3 months.  

Then we had to build that emergency fund back up and that is when Charlie had is hypoglycemic attack and that oh so expensive ambulance ride.  Those medical bills started flooding in again and from there it felt like we would never be able to catch back up.  

Until 6 months ago we were ok.  We were making it by, we were still struggling, but the minimums were being made and that was good.  We had big dreams of being debt free and they seemed like just dreams until coaching came into my life.  I have done every “job” you can think of to legitimately earn money from home and save money by couponing and all that craziness!  

It just got too hard to coupon with kids.  Since Charlie works all the time, it wasn’t feasible to leave the kids with him and go by myself.

None of the free lance, survey taking or blogging was paying off.  I was without a plan and would stay up nearly every night worrying about what we would do if I had to work out of the home. I didn't want to pay for daycare, or drop my kids off at Grandmas, I just couldn't do that to them!  I prayed for guidance every night to help me figure this out.

Along with all of that, I was also starting to have huge guilt come over me about my eating habits.

<< Emotional eater right here>>

I had fallen off the wagon during my last pregnancy and I just could see myself spiraling out of control if I didn't take action.

I knew nothing about coaching when I started.  I joined a group like this one---That was all about coaching.  I joined 3 days into this 5 day group and I was hooked.   It was a true answer to my prayers. I didn't know exactly what I was getting into and was truly surprised by the love and friendships of my team that I didn't even know I would be getting.

I have never been part of a team.  I never played sports or joined a club, but I always saw the amazing friendships that team mates had and I gotta say, it made me a little jealous.  

This time last week I was preparing to lead my team call where we connect and help each other, I was super nervous, but excited at the same time.  

Was I always a leader, no, but I always knew I could be.  

I heard a saying the other day, and I can’t tell you where from, but it went something like...

“the more value you add to your team, the more valuable you become”

And guess what??  I have only been doing this for 6 months and I had people tell me that they learned something from me!!! You know how awesome that made me feel?  It made all the jitters completely worth it!  

That goes to show that you are capable of so much more than you will ever know.  You just have to take the chance and let yourself grow!

I never would have thought that in just 6 months, I would be making enough money to finally pay extra on our credit cards and see the balances diminish. I never thought I would be able to be part of a team and change lives!!

I am co hosting a FREE "What is a Beachbody Coach?" group on Facebook. It will be one week long and will give you a glimpse of what I do on a day to day basis. There is absolutely no obligation to becomes a coach after! It will simply give you an idea if it would be a good fit for you.

It will answer questions like "How do you get paid?" "How much money do you make?" "Is this a pyramid scam?" "How many hours a day do you work?" "Do I have to be a health and fitness expert?" "Do I have to already be at my target weight?"

If you are interested, fill out the application below or send me a message through Facebook.  I want to pay it forward and help any mom that is struggling with those same things I have been through.  I am not out of the debt cycle yet, but I can FINALLY see daylight again!

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