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: Diversify and Allocate. We live in a world full of diversity and choices. And nothing could be more true than in the world of finance; there are never-ending choices one can make towards their financial future. Ensuring diversification and allocation of your finances help to play crucial roles in helping you secure your financial future, not only for yourself but for your business. 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.

As we are approaching the end of the year, we are offering a bonus challenge this month!!

November Challenge #1: Practice 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.”.

November Challenge #2: Community Gratitude - I challenge you to establish one give-back event for this year.

→So long as your concept is assembled and completed by the end of this year, you’re on track. Take your time in considering what cause or organization you would like to give back to; choose something that is near and dear to your heart, and/or your brand.

→Events could include: volunteering, a community event, running a cross-promotion, or a non-profit fundraiser, to name a few.

Stretch of the month: Sage's Pose - this pose massages your abdominal organs, including your liver and kidneys. Additionally, this pose is a great way to relieve mild backaches and hip pain. Click the (external) link to learn more, or simply google "sage’s pose"!

Wellness tip of the month: Celebrate ALL wins, big or small. Too often we get caught up in disappointment around the productivity of our days. I know I am guilty of this. Picture it: you set up your day, get 15 minutes into your to-do list, and then immediately have to pivot for the next 3 hours. Then, you try to return to where you left off, but you can't find your rhythm again. So, you move onto another task. When you wrap up your day, you're left feeling unproductive, stressed out, even more behind than when you started your day. We've all been there. Yet, in reality, the day was quite productive. It simply did not look the way we wanted the productivity to look. In this scenario, you weren't lying in bed binge watching Netflix, or out on some lavish excursion. You were, in fact, being productive and executing the tasks that were required of you at that moment. Had you chosen to ignore the catalyst for the pivot, that would have been unproductive. But, you didn't. You adapted and adjusted and executed the task at hand. In those moments, challenge your perspective, and celebrate those wins...even if they weren't the wins you were after that day, they're still wins. Celebrate them.

"Success is not a goal, it's a byproduct." -Friday Night Lights

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.