Hi! I'm

• My Challenge
• My Limiting Belief
• My New Belief
• My Back Story
• My New Story (to be completed during the challenge)

My Challenge:

Picking one thing is a challenge. I have a bunch of things I am working on but they all have one common goal. That is reducing stress in my life. So my challenge will be try try and reduce stress in my life.

My Limiting Belief: 

I think what is limiting me is the belief that things have been the same for so long that change is not possible. that for better or worse this is the way things are.

My New Belief:

When I am done I want to feel that change is possible. That through hard work and perseverance real change and be made and that the quality of my life can be improved.

My Jump for Joy Goal:

My goal over the next 90 days to get a better understanding of my finances and how best to manage them to reduce stress in my life.

My Background Story:

I grew up in a home where things ran very smoothly. Everything was always in order clean, and money was never a problem for our family. Since I have grown up and graduated from school things have not been that easy. My home is often a mess for several reasons. First, I run an in home daycare so some mess has to be expected throughout the day, but that is no big deal. Second, my wife doesn't share my desire to have things orderly. Third, I have ADD which makes it hard for me to maintain things the way I would like. I felt that things were stacked against me I gave up on trying. Also about 10 years back my wife's mother passed away and we went to home to Wisconsin for attend the funeral.  At the same time I lost many clients in my daycare and her time off wasn't paid. Our finances went into free fall and we were going to food banks for food and were very close to having our home foreclosed on. We barely pulled through. This happened again about 3 years later. Since then I have had a tremendous fear of not having enough money to pay bills. Which leads to me avoiding paying bills because I worry I won't have enough money left for other things. So it is important to me to fix these problems in my life so I am better able to enjoy the time I have with my wife, and boys that are 15 and 17 now before they move away.

My Results!

Will be added at the end of the challenge and updates throughout the challenge. Thanks!