by Karla Dennis | Nov 28, 2018 | Blog
Overcoming Financial Strain Financial strain is probably the biggest cause of stress, especially in today’s economy. With so many people losing their jobs, just trying to make ends meet can cause added stress to your already stressful lives. The good news is that there’s a way out! Map Out a Plan If you are not on a budget, you must get on one. I know the word budget seems like a bad word, and it does require effort and planning, but it is the best way to relieve financial stress. Living on a budget means you’re in control of your money, instead of your money controlling you. read...
by Karla Dennis | Nov 21, 2018 | Blog
Journaling to Increase Self-Understanding Do you feel like your emotions are complicated and confusing? If you struggle to understand why you feel or react the ways you do, you might benefit from using a journal. Journaling can help you appropriately identify and express your feelings to increase self-understanding. Once you learn to identify and deal with your feelings in acceptable ways, you have truly mastered self-understanding. By merely jotting down what’s going on with you and how you feel about it, you can get a handle on your emotions. Writing your feelings in a journal helps increase self-understanding in four ways: 1. Journaling compels you to think about and process a particular situation or occurrence. When you write about an event, you automatically process the event through words and description. Recording the situation in writing can lead you to notice details you hadn’t noticed when the event took place, thus increasing your insight about the situation. * While journaling, put aside other thoughts and just focus on the situation. 2. Journaling allows you time to identify feelings about the situation. Chances are you may not have time to analyze every event as it occurs throughout the day. However, if you pledge to journal, you know that you’ll later take the opportunity to reflect on important occurrences and consider how you felt about them. * Labeling your feelings leads to a better understanding of how you respond in certain situations. * Use “feeling” words when describing your emotions about a situation or event. Examples of feeling words are, “pumped,” “annoyed,” “ecstatic,” and “angry.” * A helpful sentence structure to use...
by Karla Dennis | Nov 13, 2018 | Blog
Some beliefs have the power to stop you in your tracks. If you believe that you could never run a marathon, you’d never try. Some toxic beliefs can permeate multiple areas of your life. These beliefs are more damaging than specific beliefs. Believing you can never learn to play the banjo doesn’t have the same negative impact as the belief that you’re too old to follow your dreams. Rid yourself of the toxic beliefs that limit your life: It’s too late, or I’m too old. Sometimes it is too late. You’re probably not going to start playing in the NBA if you’re 43 years old. But the number of things you can do is far greater than the number of things you can’t. Colonel Sanders didn’t settle on a chicken recipe until he was 49 years old. You know who he is, and you’ve eaten his chicken. There have been a few medical students that didn’t get started until their 60’s. Avoid jumping to conclusions regarding your age. You can do a lot more than you think. Failure is bad. Failure is normal. If you’re living, you’re also failing from time to time. The trick is to fail in the right way and make good use of it. Failure is nothing more than an undesired result. Take the opportunity to learn from your failures and adjust your approach. If one way doesn’t work, try another. If you continue to improve your method, how can you possibly fail over the long haul? The past equals the future. You have a fantastic ability to change and adapt. Just because you’ve...
by Karla Dennis | Nov 9, 2018 | Blog
How to Boost Your Income by Boosting Your Attitude Far too often, we allow our actions to be ruled by our emotions. It’s a fact: negative thoughts and feelings have a detrimental effect on every aspect of our lives, from family to our work and social lives. What would things be like if we transformed negative thoughts into positive ones? Changing how we feel about ourselves can truly change our direction in life! Living in the present and having a positive outlook about our future can help us reach goals we once thought were impossible. Having a brighter outlook on life can open our eyes to more possibilities and encourage us to move in new and exciting directions. read...
by Karla Dennis | Nov 2, 2018 | Blog
Can You Spot a Good Bookkeeping Service? It is a special kind of person that chooses the profession of bookkeeping. He or she has to revel in accuracy and details. A bookkeeper has to have a passion for numbers to really enjoy the job, but did you know that there are some qualities that many bookkeepers have in common? While you don’t want to ask too many personal questions to your bookkeeping service, you may enjoy hearing what many bookkeepers seems to have in common. First, a good bookkeeping service will be organized. Since bookkeepers love organization it is no wonder that their office space will be organized as well. There will be a place for everything on the desk. The computer files will all have appropriate names and jobs. It is the job of a bookkeeping service to be organized and that organization should stretch into their office as well. Another characteristic that a bookkeeping service will often have is that they are good with money. After all, you trust them with your money; they should be good with their own cash flow as well. In fact, many bookkeeping services find that their employees are good with their personal finances as well. They are notoriously good savers and seem to manage money well. Another funny quirk about a bookkeeping service is that many of the bookkeepers like to reconcile more than just money. In fact, the Tupperware drawer, the matching socks, and the organized lunch boxes are just the beginning. To really enjoy bookkeeping you have to enjoy the organization so much that enters all aspects of your...
