How much time do you spend thinking about your investments? If you are like most people probably not a lot. To take it further how much time do you spend thinking about how you invest in your self. Probably even less time. And yet every moment of every day is spent investing in ourselves in different ways.
Dry January…Is it worth the sacrifice?
To start out my year, I jumped on the dry January bandwagon. I wanted to see if not drinking for a month would increase my energy, health, happiness, or anything else. I have more than a few friends who have talked about how much better they feel by not drinking, so thought it would be worth trying.
So how did it go, you may ask?
I love new year’s resolutions. I feel like it is a fun excuse to try some new habit, challenge myself in a small way. But, let’s face it, resolutions are made to be broken. Less than 50% of people last 6 months with their resolution, with 30% not even lasting one month. What if instead of resolutions we set goals for the year…would they be as easy to break? Would they be 10x more inspiring? Would we really change our lives?
As a working parent, it is hard not to have stress…there is so much to do and not enough time in the day. It reminded me of why I left the corporate world in the first place…there was too much stress in my life and for our family and it landed me in the hospital. Now it won’t land everyone in the hospital, but it still affects your health. In thinking about this issues, I was looking back at old blog posts from Hope Post Kids and found this one that I wrote about stress. It applied 3 years ago and applies today, especially with the holidays coming up and stress naturally increasing during this busy time period.
There is an incredible number of things that we tolerate every day and don’t even notice. Some are a big deal (poor friendships) and some are less of big deal (clutter), but they all suck our energy and happiness just a little. Some tolerations suck more energy than others. But imagine, if you could free up the brain space and energy you waste thinking about these tolerations and how much freer you could feel?!
As the kids return to school, routines get started, new activities are enrolled in, is September the new January? Our kids are starting their “new resolutions” for the school year, now is a great time for us adults to also start new resolutions. New routines for families give more time and impetus to create new individual habits for us adults or also to have a little more time to make a change in our lives with anything we are unhappy with.
Summer has arrived and it brings with it all the good, the bad, and the ugly. I love summer. The long days, the walks to the ice cream store, trips to the beach, lazy mornings. There are so many wonderful things about summer, but as a parent there is also a lot of bad and ugly of summer. Without a regular routine, or just a different one kids behaviors can be erratic and not in a good way.
