Running Scared and Getting Gutsy

At the start of 2014, I vowed to spenda littlelesstime outside of my comfort zone. Since leaving Wisconsin and taking The Leap in 2011, I had been pushing the boundaries of that zone pretty much constantly, from moving across the country, to starting a new career, to building a community, to self-promotion, to near-constant traveling on the stringiest of shoestring budgets.

It became exhausting and started to work against me. In 2014, I finally slowed down . . . and ended up doing some of my g...