Welcome Back

Welcome back to my blog. I haven't posted in a while for a couple of reasons. One a perfectly good reason. The other...NOT so much!

The first reason is the horrible experience of "Sudden Death". No, not sudden death in a sports sense, but actually the sudden death of someone I knew and worked with everyday. It was a shocking and devastating loss to my company, and to me on a personal level. No, I wasn't best friends with Sherry, and didn't see her outside the office, but we worked together everyday and interacted in some way on a daily basis. Then one day she's gone! It was something I couldn't wrap my mind around, and quite a shock to deal with. I can't even imagine what her husband and family must be going through. I'm finally able to lay down and close my eyes without seeing her face.

The second reason (the NOT so much reason) I haven't posted is I just didn't know where to begin, or how to start sharing this journey with you. I'm not sure if my situation is unique or not. I'm thinking it's pretty unique. How many people are 47 years old with a teenage son, no money for retirement, no money for their child's college education, no emergency fund, no vacation fund and no home? I have a funny feeling there aren't many in this exclusive club I belong to. And dammit I've been way too embarrassed to totally put my business out there for everyone to see. Who wants everyone to know when they've a made total and complete mess of things?

But now I realize that the only thing that's going to save me and put me on the right path is total honesty and transparency. Creating this blog to share my story and my experiences with you is the only way to come out of this. I realized that in order to move forward and to do away with my bad habits, my misconceptions about money and to begin the process of healing I had to come back to this blog.

So here I am. It will be a window to my feelings, it will be how I remain accountable and it will be my therapy as I make the transition from Fabulously Broke to Financially Fabulous. More than anything else, I'm hoping my story will help some others as well, so please join me as I begin to reposition my life!

What are you willing to do to reposition your life and move to a better place?