Chelsea Fagan

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Author · Born Jan 26, 2000 · American · Female

After nearly four years as a writer and eventual Creative Director of Branded Content at Thought Catalog, one of the most-visited publishers on the web, in late 2014 I launched my own site about personal finance, The Financial Diet, which has since grown to over a million pageviews a month.

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From “21 Uncommon Romantic Gestures That Would Make Any Girl Melt”

“Get the ingredients to make her favorite cocktail and have them waiting for her when she gets home.”

Tagged: Spoil Your Girlfriend, Alcohol, Drinks

“If she’s wearing really nice heels for a night out, offer to grab a taxi as you’re about to head home so she doesn’t have to navigate the treacherous stairs of the metro after a long night.”

Tagged: Spoil Your Girlfriend, Taxi, Heels

“Play with her hair while the two of you are watching TV. It doesn’t have to be complex, just a little light head touching/hair-messing-with will put her into a near-meditative state.”

Tagged: Spoil Your Girlfriend, hair, Relaxing

From “How You Will Know When Someone Loves You”

“You don’t have to worry if they’ll like your friends, because you know they will. You don’t have to avoid the subject of your family, because they hope to meet them someday. Everything will be honest, and you won’t worry that the inconvenience of your real life will get between the very precarious…”

Tagged: Love

“You will know they love you when you are lying in bed and go to get up to start your day — don’t want to miss a sunny Saturday, there aren’t enough of those — and they pull you in closer to them. ‘Don’t go,’ they will tell you, ‘let’s just stay here together.’”

Tagged: Love

“You won’t be waiting by your phone, hoping that they will text you back, wondering if you weren’t aloof enough last time for them to remain interested. With them, it won’t be some race for who can seem to care less. The silence of your phone will no longer torment you with questions of what you did…”

Tagged: Love

From “6 Dumb Quotes You Should Never Listen To”

“Most of life means being a part of a greater society. Whether that's your friend groups, your relationships, your office; we all have to get along and share the same spaces, and that means, whether or not we like it, we have to be concerned with how we're impacting other people.”

Tagged: Money Advice, Caring About Other People

“Sometimes spend on experiences, sometimes spend on things, and sometimes stop fucking spending money.”

Tagged: Money Advice

“There are so many reasons why living each day like it’s your last day is a terrible idea.”

Tagged: It's Very Unlikely You're Going Die Soon

From “7 Questions to Ask Yourself Before Accepting a Job”

“You should know when it’s really important to put in really concentrated effort, and the rest of the time you should be focused on not burning yourself out or spreading yourself too thin.”

“Your job performance will be judged on a few well-timed sprints throughout the year, and the rest of the time you should be walking.”

“If they’re not worthy of your respect, they’re not worthy of your hard work.”

From “How to Better Yourself Without Hating Who You Already Are”

“Everything seems way blown out of proportion when you're the only one thinking about it.”

Tagged: Community

“If you can't find the reason for the change that is tied to your own well-being, and your own mental health, you probably shouldn't be doing it.”

Tagged: Being Enough, Meaning

“Motivation that depends on other people will never give us what we need to continue. Because even if we do get other's approval, it will never feel nearly as good as our own quality of life.”

Tagged: Being Enough, Meaning

From “22 Simple Things You Can Do Today to Make Your Life Easier”

“The more mindlessly accessible your money is to you, the likelier you are to mindlessly spend it.”

Tagged: Adulthood, Spending

“You don't have to come up with an excuse for something you don't want to do or can't afford to do.”

Tagged: Adulthood, Saying No

From “Things You Should Never Say About Money in a Relationship”

“Secrets kill a couple rarely more so than when it comes to money.”

Tagged: Money & Realtionships, Relationships

“One of the most dangerous things in any relationship is a power imbalance.”

Tagged: Money & Realtionships, Relationships

“In a good team, there is no such thing as shame.”

Tagged: Money & Realtionships

Chelsea Fagan

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