Just a few months from now in the start of 2023, that will mark 10 years since I did my first

contentment challenge where I give up shopping for three months straight to pursue a more

content life and a closer walk with the Lord.

Ten years!

That's a long time.

And you may or may not know this, but it had such a great impact on my life that I have

done the contentment challenge almost every

year since then. I think I skipped one year, maybe two. So today I'm going to share the lessons

that I have learned through the last 10 years of doing the contentment challenge. And I'm going to

invite you to pray about doing it with me again in the beginning of

2023.

You're listening to Work and Play with Nancy Ray, episode 177.

Much of our daily lives can be divided into two categories, work and play.

Simply put, that is where our life and

our legacy take place. This is a podcast all about learning to work and play well, which leads to a

healthy soul and a fulfilling life. Listen to them. Okay, a little backstory.

You may or may not know this.

But Will and I paid off our house at a weirdly early age.

We got into Dave Ramsey.

We followed his plan really intensely the first few years of our marriage.

We put all of my income towards our house.

And we paid off our town home that we bought for 160,000 at ages, I think we were 25 and 26 years old. We're

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