Balanced Life Weekly #39

Hey everyone and welcome to another edition of Balanced Life Weekly. Quite a bit I want to share this week so let’s dive right in.

Healthy

First let’s get this weeks number out of the way, I am now down a total of 12 pounds! I am 20 away from making my drivers license honest again and then make it a liar again after that. I have struggled with food this past week, not badly but I am just eating enough to just stay under my cap instead of being like 500 calories under I am more like 25-50 calories under so I need to re-focus on this area.

Wealthy & Wise

So I am going to combine these 2 things this week to explain what I have been focusing on over the last several days. I have come to realize that if I want to truly find a job that I am excited to go to everyday, it is not here in Mississippi. The jobs that are here are the ones I just settle for because I see them as a paycheck more than anything.

With this in mind, I am studying the Austin, TX area as a place to live at some point. It may not be in the next year or 2, but I see it as a place I want to live in 5 years. It is a city that seems to have tons of tech jobs both with big companies like Apple and Google, but also a lot of startups are there. It carries the nickname “Silicon Hills” as a matter of fact because of all the tech companies it attracts.

So why are we still here you ask? Well, quite simply there are family considerations here, both my wife’s folks and mine as well as our siblings live here in MS. We know that living in Austin we would be further away from them, not terribly it would be a 12 hour drive to my folks and a 10 hour drive to see her family. But with the possibility of us adopting a baby out of the blue one day, it helps to have family nearby. So we are torn quite a bit here as you can imagine. I definitely see it as a place I want to live in after we retire either there or San Antonio. Anyhow that has been what is on my mind this week. My wife and I thought over the same thing 8 years ago when we decided to leave Los Angeles and head to Nashville. Any insight would be appreciated.

Well, that is going to do it for this week’s Balanced Life Weekly. See you next week for another update!