By: Kara Stevens
This time of year is filled with renewal, hope, and plans for 2016. We’re focused on the possibilities of the New Year and the chance to accomplish what we didn’t in 2015. But 92%* of people don’t keep their New Year’s resolutions. By mid-February the gyms aren’t as full and resolutions fall by the wayside.
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By: Kara Stevens
Now that we’re days into the New Year, those who set New Year’s Resolutions are in the thick of making their change. But before fully moving into the New Year, reviewing the past year – the good, bad, and ugly is necessary. Regardless of the ups and downs of 2015, how you understand them will directly
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By: Kara Stevens
For many women asking for help is foreign to them. They are so busy helping others that they don’t think to or even know how to ask for help themselves. Deborah Cohan (see video) gives us a wonderful example of asking for what we need. Moments before she goes into surgery for a double mastectomy
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By: Kara Stevens
How many times a day do you call yourself “lazy” or “stupid”? The words come into our minds without us even realizing it. Special K has a great commercial that shows how hurtful and damaging we can be to ourselves (see video). It shows women in a clothing store reading labels that say “Feeling disgusting”,
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By: Kara Stevens
Recently one of our consulting clients called me to ask a question about payment. My first thought was, “Oh no, I did something wrong!” In that moment I realized a pattern of defaulting to the thought that I made a mistake when it comes to money. In truth I have made mistakes in the past.
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By: Kara Stevens
Last week I talked about the Process of Change and taking two steps forward and one step backward. Mistakes and slip-ups are going to happen as we’re on this journey! Accepting this makes it much easier to keep going the course. If you’re like me what you want to change may be a long standing
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By: Kara Stevens
As human beings we get fantastic ideas, have the energy and excitement to implement them only to find ourselves struggling a few weeks or even days later. And such is my journey to financial freedom that I’m sharing with you. Understanding the five Stages of Change has been helpful for me to have compassion for myself when
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By: Kara Stevens
Change in inevitable. Change is necessary. Change is facilitates growth. As humans we are creatures of habit. Habits provide a sense of security and familiarity. But how do we handle life when we need or want to make a change, but we are afraid to do so? Many people say we can’t or won’t make
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By: Kara Stevens
“We can complain because rose bushes have thorns or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.” ~Abraham Lincoln The end of this month it will be 5 months since I walked away from a full-time job, without another to replace it. Two weeks later I relocated back to the town I grew up in, and 2
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By: Kara Stevens
If I could quit my job, buy a pick-up truck with a megaphone attached and spend the rest of my days shouting from the top of my lungs and paraphrase one of my favorite bell hooks quotes ” Strength is not the ability to overcome, but endure,” I would. It is such an important concept
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