Apr 13, 2021
Three days ago, I finished, I think my sixth, maybe my seventh Contentment Challenge, where I give up shopping completely for three months at a time. Of course I buy food, I get gas, I get the necessities, but I quit my addiction to Target. I quit Amazon Prime. I quit impulse buys and I focus my heart on living, on...
Feb 11, 2020
The first time I tracked my time was back in 2014 I think. I just finished reading 168 Hours by Laura Vanderkam (In case you didn't know, that's how many hours there are in a week.). At the time, I was juggling a growing photography business, and I was married to a youth pastor and training for a half marathon.
To be...
Feb 4, 2020
I think you're really going to enjoy this conversation I had with my friend Jess Connolly, who is the author of You Are the Girl for the Job, which is the first book in the Nancy Ray Book Club of 2020. I'm really excited. We talked about a lot of different things, and I'm just going to let you jump into the episode and...
Jan 28, 2020
Switch On Your Brain by Dr. Caroline Leaf is one of the most interesting and impactful books I've read. Of all the books I read last year, this one is probably my favorite simply because it's full of scientific knowledge about the brain and how it works, which is something I really know nothing about, and how...
Jan 21, 2020
For the last 12 years I've worked my tail off. I've built a business, Nancy Ray Photography, and I closed the doors at that business last year. I went from working six or seven days a week, no joke in the early years, especially with weddings and double wedding weekends, it's just crazy, to working four days a week...