Helping myself stay organized and future readers find related content — Follow my newsletter here! Up until recently, I didn’t utilize the list feature all that much. I will save stories and put them in private lists, like to-dos, inspiration, and to read. But, I didn’t have my own stories very organized. What do I mean by lists? Check out this…

A little serious, a little silly — Follow my newsletter here! I find writing about myself to be a daunting task sometimes. Who am I really? To my friends, I’m a little goofy, lots of fun, and a dreamer, always trying new things. On the serious side, I have a doctorate degree in education and am an…

Will this thing work for me? — I started my blog, www.tracydeetips.com, in February 2021. I started writing on Medium in May 2022. I’ve grown and evolved a lot since both of those dates. Yet, I’m still nowhere where I want to be with my writing and my online business. Just this week, I was reading a…

One of the age-old debates is how we view time vs. money — On a long drive with my brother two summers ago, we talked about my goals of starting a blog and YouTube channel. His primary concern was that I was giving up too much of my time to work on something that had yet to truly earn any money. …

5 Strategies to Combat Screen Addiction — Ding! Vibrate. Ring!! Notifications galore! Bored at night, scrolling through Tik Tok and Instagram. Where did the time go? Does this sound familiar? According to one source, the average person spends 3 hours and 15 minutes per day on their cell phone. Cross River Therapy notes the average American spends…

Accountability partner definition and encouragement — Rewind to 2019, when I was about halfway through my doctoral program. My progress was slowing, and the task of completing my comprehensive exams and beginning to think about a dissertation topic seemed insurmountable. While chatting about this wave of overwhelm, a colleague referred me to the National Center for…

My life as an education economist — The Challenged prompt: From Emma Vincent — The road not taken? Where would it have taken you? How might your life be different had you taken it? Every so often, a thought crosses my mind about how my life would be different had I continued in my doctoral program at…

Cats Nine Lives with images —

An introduction from my friend to this concept — Perhaps you’ve seen the advertisement on Netflix and wondered, “What is Blue Zone Living?” Last week, I was cooking homemade meals with one of my dear lifelong friends from graduate school. Juggling life, work, PureBarre classes, and 4 kids, and yet she makes dinner look like a piece of cake…