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title: Back to School and Freedom Plan Blog Challenge
description: When Natalie Sisson, The Suitcase Entreprenuer, emailed me about her new 10-day Freedom Plan blog challenge, it sounded like a great idea to jump start creating content for this site ...
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# [Back to School and Freedom Plan Blog Challenge](https://www.jenbergren.com/blog/back-school-freedom-plan-blog-challenge)

 Written by [Jen Bergren](https://www.jenbergren.com/blog/author/jen-bergren) | Sep 10, 2016 11:01:00 PM

 Photo credit: ForCreativepreneurs Stock, Creative Market

When [Natalie Sisson, The Suitcase Entreprenuer,](http://suitcaseentrepreneur.com/10-day-blog-challenge/) emailed me about her new 10-day Freedom Plan blog challenge, it sounded like a great idea to jump start creating content for this site again after concentrating on[my other business](http://fetchlight.com)…with a chance to win some great prizes including travel to a coaching retreat! Traveling has been one of my dreams for many years, so this program was right up my alley!

Today’s challenge is about [finding your focus](http://suitcaseentrepreneur.com/10-day-blog-challenge/10dbc-day-1?inf_contact_key=9877c421698a3fb4e761b5eb891339b36ba3826ccde53f97d60129d9a717b40a). Natalie spoke about the things preventing people from working toward their dream life and said that she most often hears people mention:

- *I don’t have the time*
- *I don’t have the money*
- *I don’t have the freedom to do that*

The challenges I personally have been facing are about a lack of both time and money, and I have been doing a lot of deep thinking and long-term planning this year to solve those problems. It’s been five years since I left a full-time corporate job to start my own business, which unfortunately means five years of not having money to live the life I want. My business is still in debt with start-up expenses, and I was working 24/7 for years to make it successful while still working a part-time magazine design director job to pay basic living expenses.

<http://thefreedomplan.rocks/ten>

This year I started working on changes with help from the experts who inspired me to start my business, beginning with a business coaching bootcamp January-March. Most recently, and after much research, I made the big decision to go back to school to get an MBA in digital marketing in order to eventually find a job I both enjoy and that will pay for the life of traveling and style that I have always imagined for myself. I have a plan to shift/pivot my other business to take up less of my time and still keep the parts of it I enjoy. And this post is supposed to be 300 words max, so this is the end for today!

*This blog post is in response to Natalie’s [10 Day Freedom Plan Blog Challenge Day 1](http://suitcaseentrepreneur.com/10-day-blog-challenge/10dbc-day-1)*

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