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Wednesday, November 3, 2010
Melaleuca's Article About Complete Wellness
What jumps to mind when you think about being healthy? For most people, something about their physical health comes to mind, like eating nutritious foods or getting regular exercise. A close second might be financial health—having enough money to meet your needs.
There’s no question that both physical and financial wellness are important. However, life is about more than just your body weight or your checkbook balance! Have you taken a look at the fitness of your family life, your social life, or your own inner self lately? These areas deserve your attention too. For example, if you’re so consumed with your job that you miss out on the simple joys of spending time with your family, you’re not completely well. Or if you’re consistently skipping time out with your friends to slave away at the gym, you’re not totally well either.
With this in mind, take some time to look over these ideas to help you focus a bit more on your family, social, and inner wellness.
Family Wellness
Your relationship with family members is crucial. Spending quality time with your spouse, children, brothers, sisters, and parents goes a long way toward strengthening family closeness. Closer families enjoy more peace and love in the home. And they form unbreakable bonds that will pass from this generation to the next.
1.Make family time a priority. Give each family member the opportunity to decide on a weekly family activity— it will keep everyone involved and help build togetherness.
2.Cook together. Decide on a “Treat of the Week” and let each family member help prepare it.
3.Play cards or board games. Have a regular family “Game Night.”
4.Garden together. Plant and nurture a family garden and grow everyone’s favorite fruit or vegetable.
5.Help others. Spend some family time doing charity work through your community service organization or church.
6.Get involved in school. Join the parent-teacher organization at your child’s school or volunteer to help out at your local school.
7.Read together. Read to your young children every night before they go to bed.
8.Limit television, video game, and computer time and get outside. Turn off, log off, and go wash the car or play in the yard.
9.Keep in touch. Make a home movie and send it to family members who are away from home.
10.Adopt a pet. Bring home a new family friend.
Social Wellness
You are socially well when you have friends, when your name is spoken with trust, when your home is a welcome stop, and when you are respected for your willingness to help others. Improving your social well-being often means placing others’ needs above your own. As you increase your respect for people—including coworkers and family members—others will naturally become more concerned about you in return.
1.Reconnect. Locate an old friend from high school or someone you’ve lost contact with and catch up.
2.Volunteer. Make time for community service or church committees to expand your social circle.
3.Reach beyond your current contacts. Get to know the parents of your children’s friends and meet the spouses of your coworkers.
4.Switch roles. Organize a revolving monthly dinner with your friends where you take turns playing host and guest.
5.Take to the streets. Have an old-fashioned block party with your neighbors.
6.Introduce people. Host a party where each guest brings a person no one else knows.
7.Take classes. Enroll in classes to meet others who share the same interests as you.
8.Do your civic duty. Get involved in local politics— perhaps even run for an office.
9.Be a team player. If you can’t join a team, sign up as a substitute player for community sports teams.
10.Keep an eye out for others. Organize a neighborhood Community Watch committee through your local police station.
Inner Wellness
You are most at peace with others and yourself when you live your life with integrity. Inner wellness—or living a life consistent with your values—brings you peace, helps keep you centered, and enables you to accomplish what you want most out of life.
1.Spend time alone. Devote some time every day to breathe deeply and focus on yourself.
2.Believe in yourself. Stay true to your values and beliefs—especially when they’re challenged.
3.Keep a clear conscience. Be honest and ethical in all your dealings.
4.Stay positive. Try to maintain a good attitude and outlook on life—especially during stressful times.
5.Expand your viewpoint. Have an open mind and listen to other points of view.
6.Own up. Take responsibility for your actions.
Total Wellness is within your control
Living a healthy, happy life is a day-to-day balancing act. And no one of us are perfect at it! However, these tips and ideas show that you can do small things every day that can have a big impact in the quality of your overall health. Try some of them and come up with a few of your own— you’ll enjoy your life more and be on the road to “well-rounded” wellness.
There’s no question that both physical and financial wellness are important. However, life is about more than just your body weight or your checkbook balance! Have you taken a look at the fitness of your family life, your social life, or your own inner self lately? These areas deserve your attention too. For example, if you’re so consumed with your job that you miss out on the simple joys of spending time with your family, you’re not completely well. Or if you’re consistently skipping time out with your friends to slave away at the gym, you’re not totally well either.
With this in mind, take some time to look over these ideas to help you focus a bit more on your family, social, and inner wellness.
Family Wellness
Your relationship with family members is crucial. Spending quality time with your spouse, children, brothers, sisters, and parents goes a long way toward strengthening family closeness. Closer families enjoy more peace and love in the home. And they form unbreakable bonds that will pass from this generation to the next.
1.Make family time a priority. Give each family member the opportunity to decide on a weekly family activity— it will keep everyone involved and help build togetherness.
2.Cook together. Decide on a “Treat of the Week” and let each family member help prepare it.
3.Play cards or board games. Have a regular family “Game Night.”
4.Garden together. Plant and nurture a family garden and grow everyone’s favorite fruit or vegetable.
5.Help others. Spend some family time doing charity work through your community service organization or church.
6.Get involved in school. Join the parent-teacher organization at your child’s school or volunteer to help out at your local school.
7.Read together. Read to your young children every night before they go to bed.
8.Limit television, video game, and computer time and get outside. Turn off, log off, and go wash the car or play in the yard.
9.Keep in touch. Make a home movie and send it to family members who are away from home.
10.Adopt a pet. Bring home a new family friend.
Social Wellness
You are socially well when you have friends, when your name is spoken with trust, when your home is a welcome stop, and when you are respected for your willingness to help others. Improving your social well-being often means placing others’ needs above your own. As you increase your respect for people—including coworkers and family members—others will naturally become more concerned about you in return.
1.Reconnect. Locate an old friend from high school or someone you’ve lost contact with and catch up.
2.Volunteer. Make time for community service or church committees to expand your social circle.
3.Reach beyond your current contacts. Get to know the parents of your children’s friends and meet the spouses of your coworkers.
4.Switch roles. Organize a revolving monthly dinner with your friends where you take turns playing host and guest.
5.Take to the streets. Have an old-fashioned block party with your neighbors.
6.Introduce people. Host a party where each guest brings a person no one else knows.
7.Take classes. Enroll in classes to meet others who share the same interests as you.
8.Do your civic duty. Get involved in local politics— perhaps even run for an office.
9.Be a team player. If you can’t join a team, sign up as a substitute player for community sports teams.
10.Keep an eye out for others. Organize a neighborhood Community Watch committee through your local police station.
Inner Wellness
You are most at peace with others and yourself when you live your life with integrity. Inner wellness—or living a life consistent with your values—brings you peace, helps keep you centered, and enables you to accomplish what you want most out of life.
1.Spend time alone. Devote some time every day to breathe deeply and focus on yourself.
2.Believe in yourself. Stay true to your values and beliefs—especially when they’re challenged.
3.Keep a clear conscience. Be honest and ethical in all your dealings.
4.Stay positive. Try to maintain a good attitude and outlook on life—especially during stressful times.
5.Expand your viewpoint. Have an open mind and listen to other points of view.
6.Own up. Take responsibility for your actions.
Total Wellness is within your control
Living a healthy, happy life is a day-to-day balancing act. And no one of us are perfect at it! However, these tips and ideas show that you can do small things every day that can have a big impact in the quality of your overall health. Try some of them and come up with a few of your own— you’ll enjoy your life more and be on the road to “well-rounded” wellness.
Thursday, October 28, 2010
Adding Value to Others by John C. Maxwell
How can you turn your focus from yourself and start adding value to others? You can do it by:
1. Putting Others First in Your Thinking
When you meet people, is your first thought about what they'll think of you or how you can make them feel more comfortable? At work, do you try to make your coworkers or employees look good, or are you more concerned about making sure that you receive your share of the credit? When you interact with family members, whose best interests do you have in mind? Your answers show where your heart is. To add value to others, you need to start putting others ahead of yourself in your mind and heart. If you can do it there, you will be able to put them first in your actions.
2. Finding Out What Others Need
How can anyone add value to others if he doesn't know what they care about? Listen to people. Ask them what matters to them. And observe them. If you can discover how people spend their time and money, you'll know what they value. And when you know people's value, you can add value to them.
3. Meeting That Need with Excellence and Generosity
The final step requires concrete action. Once you know what matters to people, do your best to meet their needs with excellence and generosity. Offer yor best with no thought toward what you might receive in return. President Calvin Coolidge believed that "no enterprise can exist for itself alone. It ministers to some great need, it performs some great service, not for itself, but for others; or failing therein it ceases to be profitable and ceases to exist."
Blogger Note: This is an excerpt from John C. Maxwell's book Failing Forward: Turning mistakes into Stepping Stones for Success. I highly recommend reading this book! It has opened my eyes to many things that I can change in the way I view myself, others around me, and the way I view working my business. No matter the phase of life you're in or how you choose to make a living, you can benefit from this book. It will definitely make you want to be a better person, and it encourages you to keep going no matter how many mistakes you make or how many times you fail.
1. Putting Others First in Your Thinking
When you meet people, is your first thought about what they'll think of you or how you can make them feel more comfortable? At work, do you try to make your coworkers or employees look good, or are you more concerned about making sure that you receive your share of the credit? When you interact with family members, whose best interests do you have in mind? Your answers show where your heart is. To add value to others, you need to start putting others ahead of yourself in your mind and heart. If you can do it there, you will be able to put them first in your actions.
2. Finding Out What Others Need
How can anyone add value to others if he doesn't know what they care about? Listen to people. Ask them what matters to them. And observe them. If you can discover how people spend their time and money, you'll know what they value. And when you know people's value, you can add value to them.
3. Meeting That Need with Excellence and Generosity
The final step requires concrete action. Once you know what matters to people, do your best to meet their needs with excellence and generosity. Offer yor best with no thought toward what you might receive in return. President Calvin Coolidge believed that "no enterprise can exist for itself alone. It ministers to some great need, it performs some great service, not for itself, but for others; or failing therein it ceases to be profitable and ceases to exist."
Blogger Note: This is an excerpt from John C. Maxwell's book Failing Forward: Turning mistakes into Stepping Stones for Success. I highly recommend reading this book! It has opened my eyes to many things that I can change in the way I view myself, others around me, and the way I view working my business. No matter the phase of life you're in or how you choose to make a living, you can benefit from this book. It will definitely make you want to be a better person, and it encourages you to keep going no matter how many mistakes you make or how many times you fail.
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