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Jill McCormick

Jill McCormick is the writer behind jillemccormick.com, a blog where she shares common-sense grace with the try-hard girl. Jill’s married to her high school sweetheart Ryan. They live in South Texas with their two daughters, born 18 months apart. Most days you’ll find her with a book in her hand or a podcast in her ears. She starts and ends every day with sprinkles: on oatmeal for breakfast and on ice cream for dessert.

The One Flaw That I Don’t Want You to Know About

It’s so much easier to ignore our calling and chase what everyone else is doing. It’s easier to push away our gifts when they don’t seem to be on trend. It’s easier to not be passionate about certain causes because no one else is. We don’t want to be the outlier.

The High Cost of Being Low Maintenance

This low maintenance perspective isn’t right, and it isn’t sustainable—there is a high cost to being low maintenance.