Hi, I'm Erica Douglass. I sold my business and "temporarily retired" at age 26. I write here about investing, setting goals, and entrepreneurship. Most importantly, I share lessons I have learned that can help you on your quest for financial freedom!
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Archive for the 'Health' Category
My experience and review: Laser Hair Removal, San Jose, California
I promised I would update some earlier blog entries that I had posted. Since it’s been several months since I first started laser hair removal, I figured now would be a good time to update.
I’ve had 7 treatments on my legs and stomach, and I added in underarms and my bikini area a couple months [...]
More time than I thought!
For the past week, I’ve been exploring some new techniques to rearrange my time so that it is used most effectively. This follows my realization in What’s Most Important? (my previous entry) that time will become my most valuable resource.
I have several goals:
1) Make my time at the office of maximum effectiveness, as I want [...]
Eliminating high-fructose corn syrup
One of the toughest parts of my new diet is eliminating high-fructose corn syrup (HFCS). Sugar is fairly easy to spot and eliminate, but high-fructose corn syrup shows up in the strangest places — even in some supposedly “healthy” foods. Here is my (growing) list of foods that, surprisingly, contain high-fructose corn syrup:
Ritz crackers, Wheat [...]
[Read More]And, on a completely different note…
Okay. Enough silly blog entries lately. Time for something more serious (and hopefully interesting.)
By now, most of you know that I have mood swings. Sometimes they are serious (crushing depression) and sometimes they are manageable. As I’ve grown older and gotten various therapy/help and read more about the subject, I’ve gotten them under control and [...]
