Something I learned About Long Term Health and Well Being

I recently had the pleasure to be an attendee at a workshop hosted by my friend Linda Easton, owner of Linda Easton Coaching and Extraordinary Organizing. During this "Women Mean Business" workshop, many profound ideas and information were shared. As I listened and participated, my mind began to link some of the ideas she was teaching us. I began to connect some of what she was sharing with lasting health and well being strategies. 

I often encourage our clients to plan and track. You only have to read some of my blogs to get the idea that I consider planning and tracking great strategies. Planning and tracking are important for business and for health and well being as well. Linda shared a short tip about making the day count, rather than counting the days and I immediately thought, "Now that is a great point to make for health and well being."

Each and every single day we have available to us is an extraordinary opportunity to rock our health and well being actions. For instance, rather than focusing on how many months it would take to lose 20 lbs of the excess weight you're lugging around, focus on what you can do each day to get you closer to your ideal weight and then do those things. Several years ago, when I was 45 lbs over weight, I worried about the length of time it would take to get all that weight off my body. Then I decided to apply visioning techniques to my health desires and thus shifted my thoughts about losing weight to how I would look, feel, be, at my desired weight. In a short while, I was not trying to lose weight, I becoming my desired weight and person. I shed the excess weight and didn't sweat how long it took because my focus was on my health and well being and the actions I needed to take to get and stay healthy. 

Several years later, my focus has not changed. It is still about staying well and healthy and each day is focused on the actions supporting my health and well being goals. By focusing on what I can do each day, I make each day count and over 5000 days later, every day's actions has culminated in tremendous life giving benefits I may not have had if I were only thinking about how long it would take to reach my health goals. By making each day count, I have netted years of true health and well being. 

If you are new to the journey, take my friend Linda Easton's advice and begin to make each day count and start today. Wake up tomorrow and start today again.       

HALF ASS IS BETTER THAN NO ASS!

Those were the words I said to Petra, a new client at our clinic when she was contemplating how long it may take for her to regain optimal health. She had plethora of questions and as I was answering each one of her questions, I told her about another client.

Fernando, had been dealing with very high cholesterol levels that refused to respond to prescribed medications from his conventional medical practitioner. Two separate cholesterol medicines had only put a dimple in the levels and he sought out other ways to improve his health. When he found us, at the recommendation from another client who has found success with her health concerns with our multimodal natural health approach, we recommended specific dietary and targeted supplementation and exercise protocols that will support the medications and help him get the results he desired.

Perturbed by the changes he would need to make, Fernando exclaimed, “How on earth am I going to be able to keep all of this together and do everything every day!”

It’s not a statement we haven’t heard before. As a matter of course, it is a regular utterance from many people we see as they realize the changes they need in order to truly get well. I had said to Fernando, “I only want you to add one thing for now and do this one thing every day.” Rather than focusing on the changes, I encouraged Fernando to follow the “Add To” principle and continue to do everything he was already doing and just add one thing to it. Within a short time, Fernando had consistently replaced one artery clogging meal with artery opening meal and he did it daily. He also did minimal exercises two times a week and took his supplements and drank more water.

In one year, after retesting, Fernando’s cholesterol dropped by 60 points and he weighed 12 pounds less! He was astonished!! Surprised by the results, he said, “Wow! I probably would have dropped double the points if I had done everything you recommended.” I agreed and said, “Well sir, half ass is better than no ass! You can now see how small changes can be significant. So let’s kick it up by half a notch for the next year, what do you say?”

Fernando agreed; you see, he didn’t just lose 12 pounds and 60 points off the cholesterol that was silently and quietly snuffing out his life. He reported he was less stressed, he felt happier and more content, and he was more productive at work. The second year that he kicked it up just a notch, he lost an additional 15 pounds of excess weight, dropped another 30 points off his cholesterol, greatly reduced the small density lipoprotein particles in his blood stream, and was taken off one of the cholesterol medicines. He is still gradually achieving his goals and getting better every day.

When Petra heard this story, she thanked me and informed me she is now ready to get her results. Although she laughed a lot as I answered her questions and told her about Fernando, she reflected she understood my intentions and was grateful for letting her know she needn’t be perfect on her way to optimal health. Working together, Petra has joined the ranks of many of our clients who are adopting my philosophy of living perfectly flawed and normally dysfunctional in the achievement of our goals in all areas of our lives.