Kathryn Hope
Invest in Yourself...Selfish or Necessary?

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.

Invest in Yourself...Selfish or Necessary?
Kathryn Hope
Dry January…Is It Worth it?

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?

Dry January…Is It Worth it?
Kathryn Hope
Ditch the New Year's Resolutions and Transform ...

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?

Ditch the New Year's Resolutions and Transform Your Life
Work Life Balance
Kathryn Hope
STRESS...Don't Ignore It Do Something About It

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.

STRESS...Don't Ignore It Do Something About It
Life, Happiness
Kathryn Hope
How to Get More Energy and Be Happy in One ...

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?!

How to Get More Energy and Be Happy in One (Sometimes) Easy Step

Why Finding Balance is Important

Why Finding Balance is Important

After big D arrived and I went back to work, I had the typical mommy guilt.  The feeling of not having enough balance in my life, not enough time with my kid (then it was only 1).  Big D was always one of the first kids at daycare and one the last kids to get picked up.  Ten to eleven hours at day care, a long day; I felt so bad.  I started the conversation with my manager then.  “I want more time with my kid”, “I want a more flexible schedule”  “I want to work part time”.  Although there was no one in our company doing it, my manager was totally open to the conversation (surprising) and totally supportive (even though she didn’t have kids herself).  AMAZING!  I told her I could be patient, but I wanted to start the conversation now.