Sometimes You Have to take a Chance & a Linkup

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As y’all know, I made a huge life change and moved to Florida.  In today’s post I wanted to talk about how sometimes you need to take a chance.  Several years ago I took the chance of moving to Texas, unfortunately, it didn’t work out and I ended up coming back home to NJ.  I know that it didn’t work out for a reason.  I wouldn’t have reconnected with my (now) fiance, and we would have never ended up wanting to spend the rest of our lives together.  If I didn’t come back home, I would have never worked at the one company I was at for over 5 years.  I learned SOOOOOO MANY things from that job that I will forever be grateful for.  I made lifelong friends.  I would have never started this blog again and met all of you.  I’ve met some of you in person and we are real life friends.

When I graduated college with my Bachelor’s in 2009, I was so lost.  I was in the real world, and because of the economy crashing in 2008, I was one of the college grads affected.  I ended up making a huge life decision and taking a chance on furthering my education.  In 2012, I obtained my MBA.  College isn’t for everyone, and I’ve talked about that here on my blog before, and a degree does not make you better than something without a college education, however this was a huge chance that I took.  I wasn’t sure what to expect and I was scared of failing because everyone always told me about how you should have some experience first before getting your Masters degree.  I’m stuck with a large sum of student loans now, BUT, I’m glad I still did it.

In 2014, I had reconnected with my (now) fiance.  I took a huge chance on him.  I had been in extremely toxic relationships prior to him, that completely broke me.  I had been single for many years before he came along and I had come to really love being single.  I loved how independent I was, and how I didn’t have the hassle of a relationship and having to always answer to someone or dress a certain way because I was “showing too much skin” even though I was wearing basically what I’m wearing in the photos above.  I didn’t know what a healthy relationship was, so I took a chance on my fiance.  I told him that I liked being independent and the second I would see anything with him being controlling or anything like my past relationships I would leave.  I was very broken in the begining of our relationship, and I wasn’t used to how he was with me.  He was too good to be true.  Here we are, many years later, engaged (yes I know we’ve been engaged for almost 2 years, I’m following my own timeline thank you very much), in a new state, we have two dogs, we have a house, and we are doing great.  I finally got my happily ever after.

Fast forward to today.  I moved to Florida, a state where I honestly never thought I’d end up in, I am more drawn to Texas (obviously).  However, Florida was a great choice.  We moved out of a small 1 bedroom apartment, into a beautiful house.  Our neighborhood is right across from the water, we have resorts not too far from us.  We are near some major tourist cities, but it’s not like any other city I’m used to.  The weather is beautiful, I’m sorry Floridians, but 40/50 degrees during winter time is NOT cold haha.  That’s bikini weather in the northeast this time of year hahahaha!

The moral of the story, is sometimes you have to do what scares you.  You have to take that chance.  It may backfire in your face, or it may be the best decision of your life, but everything happens for a reason.  Don’t forget to link up with my mom and me today, and check out her blog post today, she has some cute DIY Easter decorations on her blog today!

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