Please note: This is a guest post by Amanda Farough, from VioletMinded.

For some of us, finding that one true passion is just not an option. We want to do it all.

I’ve never really been able to concentrate on one thing at a time. I’m a notorious multitasker with an apparent inability to focus. In university, people kept telling me to slow down, pick something, decide on a path. Academic advisers would preach that my future (and future earnings) depended on my finding a niche and sticking with it, at least until my mid-thirties.

I can’t tell you how many times that gave me borderline anxiety attacks.

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I was once a bit OCD. I don’t mean that my house was neat and tidy (though it probably was), or that I was a control freak (though I definitely was); but rather, I had obsessive thoughts that I compulsively acted on, even when I knew I shouldn’t. I would tell myself NOT to act on those thoughts… but, when they arose, it was like I was on autopilot. I absolutely, compulsively, had to follow through, no matter what.

When I was dealing with this issue, I learned that OCD people live in an imaginary world that is Beyond Reasonable Doubt. Some doubts, of course, are reasonable and prudent.

For instance:

I just cut raw chicken on the counter, so I should disinfect it. (Reasonable)

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I’ve seen a few posts around lately about women’s liberation, feminism, empowered women, and all that Mary Wollstonecraft kind of talk. I like that stuff alright. I got my Pilot’s License and MBA, worked in Corporate Finance and International Sales, drove a stick-shift 4×4 truck even before I moved to Georgia… I can hang with the big boys when needed, or desired.

I get it. I really do.

What I don’t get is why “empowered women” look down on stay-at-home wives and mothers as if we’re single-handedly responsible for undoing all the progress the feminist movement fought so hard to achieve.

See, to me, a “liberated woman” has the right to CHOOSE whatever she wants.

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