Love Your Life, Not Theirs

If you are looking for a way to move past paycheck-to-paycheck living and become more content with your life, this is a must read! My husband and I finished baby steps 1-3 in a little less than 2 years, which was fantastic! But, I have still been struggling with comparisons. It is the perfect book for this season of my life! 

I can relate to Rachel in that we’re both natural spenders and similar in age - young professional women, building our careers. She takes into account the added pressure of social media in keeping up with the Joneses, living #blessed (the ultimate humble brag) vs. blessed, and the marketing directed toward new moms, among other distractions that seek to throw us financially off course today. Love Your Life, Not Theirs is the perfect gift for a recent college graduate, a young woman new to financial planning, or as a Financial Peace University refresher.

I expected the book to be good, but thought that it would be targeted mainly at millennials. As I read it, I saw myself throughout and I didn't expect that since I am a 58 year old who is retired and has a great financial situation. You'd think that this book would not be as applicable to us as it is to younger people, but guess what? It is for EVERYONE! Everyone who reads this will find life-changing opportunities throughout and they will feel like their "friend" Rachel is cheering them on.

After reading Rachel’s new book, Love Your Life, Not Theirs, I am completely ready to fall in love with my life all over again! This book was just the motivation I needed to hear as we continue to push through our own journey to debt-free living. It reminded me to focus on building up my own life and values, and not to gaze on what someone else appears to have. Rachel writes like a friend who is not afraid to show you some tough love and tell you the truth when you need to hear it.

I am no avid reader, but I knocked out this book in one weekend because I could not put it down! Being 27 years old, single, in the midst of baby step two, and a social media aficionado, the book laid heavy on my heart and is very applicable to my life. It is a real eyeopener into how our perception can get foggy, we can lose intensity on achieving our goals, and sometimes we just need a little bit of tough love to push us along. Rachel gives us that tough love with this book in such a humbling way!