Say Goodbye to Survival Mode

Author:Crystal Paine
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: ebook
Publisher: Thomas Nelson
Published: 2013-10-31T16:00:00+00:00

KEEP ON KEEPING ON

While our marriage was in bad shape, we did make one good decision—to be as creative and resourceful as we could to avoid accessing our emergency fund (an account where we had saved up almost three months’ worth of expenses). The idea for MoneySavingMom.com was born during this time. I’d learned a lot about blogging and monetizing a blog over the past few years. I’d written quite a bit on supermarket savings on the site I had, and these articles had been popular. People were constantly asking me for practical money-saving advice, so I figured starting a frugal, money-saving blog might work well. Jesse was excited about this new venture, and we launched the site in the fall of 2007.

While it seemed like we were getting nowhere in the job search, God was doing some amazing things behind the scenes. In fact, our lives were about to be turned upside down—in a wonderful way!

With the downturn of the economy, MoneySavingMom.com took off with a bang. In fact, within three months, the site was getting twelve to fifteen thousand page views every day. And it kept growing! After a year (and countless hours of work and experimenting), MoneySavingMom.com began to bring in a steady full-time income.

It was one of those instances of being in the right place at the right time, persevering, and God wildly blessing a project. I’d started the blog hoping it would someday provide a steady source of side income for our family. I never could have imagined that six years later, it would be one of the highest trafficked personal finance blogs on the web, read by more than a million people each month! And that side income I’d hoped for? Well, that goal got blown out of the water as it provides more than a full-time income for our family, pays the salaries of all my team members, and allows us to give generously to needs in our community and around the world. The whole thing still amazes me!

I wasn’t the only one reaping the rewards from years of hard work and struggle. In October 2008, we moved back home to be near our extended families, and Jesse realized a long-term dream of opening his own law firm. By God’s blessings, it was profitable from the get-go. During the prior year, Jesse had gotten a contract position and had also used that year researching, listening to, and reading everything about leadership and running a business. It has been so much fun to see him work hard and succeed in this venture.

It wasn’t an easy journey. But we can definitely say that making short-term sacrifices in order to accomplish long-term goals can be very rewarding—especially if you’re willing to stick with it when the going gets tough.

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