Photo by Stephan Kunze
Blogging has been on my to-do list for a long time now. As you’ll come to see, I fondly call my “bucket-list” my to-do list, since I have every intention of completing each and every thing on that list as soon as the opportunity arises. But more on that in another post (wow, that sounded so blog-like! I’m really doing this!!).
Aaanyway, back to my point. I’ve been wanting to create a blog for (let’s just estimate here) 8 years or so? Yeah, 15 year old Becky thought she was going to be a blogger just like 7 year old Becky thought she was going to be an author. Turns out, after dabbling in a few short-lived websites, 15 year old Becky was right. I have a hankering (wait, am I 23 or 73?), rather, a strong feeling that 7 year old Becky may just be right too. So now, this is really happening.
I have some things I want to write about that I feel can be of value to other young, hopeful, lost, confused, and yearning twenty-somethings with half(or fully!)-baked plans for the future who feel in their very bones that there has to be a different way of doing things. A different path in life besides the yellow-brick road everyone else is skipping along towards a gargantuan house, blindingly expensive car, miserable job and mediocre life.
Why did I choose to call this site TwentyFree? Well, besides the just awful pun I couldn’t help making (I’m currently twenty three and freedom is my over-arching goal in life… it’s a pretty bad pun) I think everyone’s twenties are the years in which they are figuring themselves out and are free to learn and grown and experiment. Around 22, many people will graduate college and find that they are free of constraint in some ways, such as school schedules and, if they’ve managed to move out, parental oversight. But they’ll also find they’ve graduated into a whole host of things that restrict their freedom more than they had ever anticipated, such as student debt, their new jobs, and if they’re living at home, parental oversight (sigh).
Sure, some of the tools I’ll use to achieve financial, personal and occupational freedom may be unorthodox or sound straight up wall-licking crazy. Regardless, I hope they can get you thinking about what you can change in your life, and how you can think outside the box, to achieve your own personal brand of freedom. I’ve spent countless hours creating my 5-year plan (more to come on that) and dedicating myself to self-education regarding all things financial. I read thousands of blog posts, and a whole bunch of books, and I’ve come to one conclusion: the thing that separates dreamers from doers is consistent, focused action. Conception is important, but action is essential.
Join me on my journey from dreaming to doing. Become TwentyFree with me.
Becky