Finding Purpose After Financial Freedom: My Life After 30

Lately I've been reflecting on something I've had a hard time articulating but I'll try.

Freedom is having the CHOICE on how and who you spend your time with.

In my teens and twenties, I rarely thought about what my life beyond 30 would look like.

I only knew that by age 30 I wanted to be retired or job optional. And I pushed hard!

What I rarely thought about was what I would do with my time if I was job optional. I only knew I wanted to travel. 😆

I'm at this phase in my life I never planned beyond. It feels strange and foreign. I've had so many thoughts this year asking myself, "is this life at 30? It's kind of boring" 🥴

I pushed hard to set myself up for that "job optional" life. I'm 34 and from age 30-32, I didn't work a day at a job because I didn't have to. 🙏 The freedom led to creating purposeful things with my husband and it was a really beautiful time while it lasted until I started to feel I needed a new challenge! I missed meeting new people and teaching startup founders. I craved a new learning environment.

Over the last decade, I've pivoted my career in a huge way. From dietitian to entrepreneurship educator, program strategist, to business owner, etc.... They've all impacted my learnings. And after achieving the goal I had for myself at age 30, I realized when I had so much free time, that what really matters is living out your purpose daily. Purpose is discovered. It looks different in different chapters of life.

Finding renewed purpose after achieving your goals is a journey nobody prepares you for or really talks about. But in my time with God, I'm realizing I can't rush into anything. There is so much peace in knowing He has me where I am now, for a reason. Ultimately, I'd be terrified and anxious to the bone, if I didn't know Jesus and it's really only by prayer and listening to His still soft voice, that I feel peace with where I am now. ♥️ I don't have it all figured out but I am creating goals for the next decade, this time, with an underlying purpose.