Happy November! Each month we strive to provide you with a variety of helpful resources, tips, and practices to support your continued success, both personally and professionally. Because we work with a diverse demographic of clients, industries, and backgrounds, we aim to provide content equally as diverse. If a particular section doesn't resonate with you, that's okay! Our hope is that everyone can find at least one gold nugget per issue. 

Below, you will find information on this month's article from Crum Consulting, this month's development challenge, as well as general wellness reminders. We have a number of knowledge-forward articles available that explore a variety of professional and personal topics, all of which will challenge your current perspective, and push your continued growth. Each month, we aim to provide you with a new challenge to help facilitate your ongoing growth. These challenges will range in topics and applications, in an effort to focus on a variety of aspects of your life. If you are a recurring client with us, we will be following up on this month's challenge with you in session. If you don't currently have any sessions set up with us, and would like to discuss this challenge and others like it, please feel free to reach out to schedule a session with us! You can reply directly here if we have worked together in the past. If you are a new client, please click here to fill out a consultation form, and we will be in touch to schedule a session with you. We also provide new wellness reminders in the form of our stretch of the month, and wellness tip. Regardless of your background, these reminders will help improve your day to day health and wellness.

November Article: This month's article is: Leading vs. Bossing. Are you a leader, or a boss? While most people in management roles these days will identify themselves as a leader, how much of that identity is true, and how much has been cultivated by the persona we are expected to embody? If you have any questions surrounding this month's article, or would like to further explore opportunities, please feel free to reach out to schedule a session with us! You can reply directly here if we have worked together in the past. If you are a new client, please click here to fill out a consultation form, and we will be in touch to schedule a session with you.

November Challenge: I challenge you to practice daily gratitude!
→To start, determine a method to express your gratitude daily. If you’d like to tackle this challenge as an individual, you can implement a gratitude journal, whiteboard, chalk board, or some kind of artistic adaptation. If you’re interested in approaching this challenge as a group or community, you can create a social media movement (FB page, media campaign, etc.), partner with local businesses for a 30 day gratitude challenge, or create a meet-up group that actively spreads gratitude to others.
→Once you determine your method, from there it is just a matter of engaging with your platform daily to acknowledge and celebrate one thing you’re grateful for each day. Make the experience your own. You can extend this challenge as long as you find happiness in the experience. When your challenge has ended, you can retain all of your gratitude moments to look back on during hard times, or moments of reflection. “When I started my journey of gratitude, I used a chalkboard to write down at least one thing I was grateful for each day, and took a picture of what I’d written down. I often look back on those fondly.” - Cole, Crum Consulting Founder.

Stretch of the month: Big Toe pose - this stretch calms the brain and helps relieve stress, anxiety and mild, stimulates the liver and kidneys, stretches the hamstrings and calves, strengthens the thighs, improves digestion, helps relieve the symptoms of menopause, and helps relieve headache and insomnia. Click the (external) link to learn more, or simply google "big toe pose"!

Wellness tip of the month: A number of my clients ask me about task and time management struggles, and the truest answer here is one that every business owner finds to be counterintuitive. In the moments of overwhelm, task paralysis, hypersensitivity, or sensory overload, that is your nervous system talking to you. Your body is telling you that you have not been taking care of yourself, so your self is struggling to take care of you. Those periods cause us to feel like we are behind, or unproductive, or lazy, or whatever other label we’ve been assigned in our lives. These labels are a dramatic over exaggeration of the true reality of the situation; these labels are the symptoms, not the root. The root is simple; a lack of self care and love. When you take care of yourself, you will be able to pay attention more easily, focus more, be more efficient, make less mistakes, and have more ambition and energy.

"I have a deep appreciation for life." - Cole Crum, Crum Consulting Founder

Thank you for being a pivotal part of our journey here at Crum Consulting. We would be nothing without you, and your continued support. Please feel free to share our content with others to pay it forward. We relish in receiving feedback, so if you have any suggestions or if you'd like to share your opinion on any of the content we have provided here, please let us know! If you have any questions about anything we covered here, or if you'd like to explore potential opportunities with Crum Consulting, we are here for you! Reach out anytime!

Until we meet again, take care of yourself, and others. Thank you.