Audacious HEALTH and WEALTH

This month in A PEACE of WORK, I offer up on audacious HEALTH and WEALTH. In Motive Eight, I suggested 8 considerations around Motivation. Before that, I offered 44 posts in Reflect and Project. Since that time, I also posted on 4 Horses of Health and The Brickwork Matters. That said, and amidst The Baha'i Fast, a prayerful thought came to mind and heart that is galvanizing my own walk towards Health, and more. I humbly offer it here.

A Thought on HEALTH and WEALTH

I have long said that W.E.A.L.T.H. is When Excellence and Love Take Hold.

When we Love what we do, and bring our best... W.E.A.L.T.H. unfolds. I suggest that LP Jacks spoke to that thusly...

That said, the afore noted prayerful insight came amongst both prayers and working out today. As someone who loves plays on words and acronyms, I simply offer that HEALTH is when we HEAL The Heart. It needs to be noted that I am talking both the literal and, dare I say, spiritual Heart. And I offer that it is served by being real; with Audacity in practice.

Audacity and Health

The card above includes a picture of friends and myself once climbing Hollyburn Peak outside of Vancouver. As an asthmatic, it was an audacious endeavour lol. I think it needs to be said that, in some circles, Audacity has a bad rap... and is even misunderstood. It is not aggressive, but assertive.

It knows its well discerned, decided and devoted voice.

It executes on that with both Composure and Confidence. In the practice of Leadership and Character, it knows what it soulfully intends and goes after it.

It is not about the "grind and hustle". It is about audacious Patience and Commitment towards something that truly matters. Audacity does not need to prove itself. With it, we simply are ... in our being and doing. Indeed, at its best, it manifests Meekness... as Strength.

Indeed, nothing to prove. We simply live our best Truth, in the NOW. The physical and spiritual Hearts are well served by same. Undue stress and anxiety have no place in such audacious Hearts. With Audacity, we are less vulnerable to unreasonable doubt and fear. "When the swords flash", we go forward. We are less concerned with what others are doing and more focused on what matters most deeply and meaningfully to us.

As I walk towards better and optimal Health... I am reminded that in my Faith and in all realms of Health... it is about healing the Heart... it is about healing the Hearts. As a Baha'i, a believer in both Faith and Science... I am ever better Understanding that taking care of my Hearts ... matters.. I am ever better Understanding that the healing of our Hearts... it matters... individually and collectively. With that in mind...

I offer up our 4 TUGtv shows from February, including:

• BroadCAST Live with Tessie Balilo on community, immigration and more.
• TUGtalks with Collective Interchange on their noble work.
• Talk Reel in conversation with Michel Neray, around self care.
• #hUmaNITY in conversation with Joanne Zehtab-Jadid around business, community and being human in the world.

These conversations are good for my Hearts. They fill me. They help fulfill me. Finding that which brings us smiles of the Hearts... is important, nay vital.

Audacious Joy

‘Abdu’l-Baha said...

• "Joy gives us wings! In times of joy our strength is more vital, our intellect keener, and our understanding less clouded. We seem better able to cope with the world and to find our sphere of usefulness."

This does not deny the importance of our emotions. All emotions are vital as signposts as to how we are doing. But, Joyfulness is less an emotion, and more a spirit that can carry us through the good, the bad and the ugly. And Audacity, being true to ourselves... can magnificently help in same.

Indeed, as I continue to evolve The LECturn and Aim High and A PEACE of Work and reintroduce "Sharpen the Blades" as my personal blog in April, I am ever reminded and aware of same. Through the trails, trials and triumphs, practicing our Audacity ensures we focus on what we have control over and less on what we do not.

Closing Thought this Month

And so, my thought to each of us this month is in the form of a Question.

• How might Audacity help you advance on HEALTH and WEALTH as noted above? What would it look like on the ground, real time and real world?

Get clear and specific on that countenance and gait. Then, do that. I intend to... and be that audacious healthy and wealthy Simple Man. To that end, I will be taking a "blog" break" for the balance of The Fast until March 20.

Justice, Peace and Unity...

Barry Lewis Green, aka The Unity Guy with Epic Engage

• My work and Service is that I am a Leadership Educator, Speaker, Coach and Creator helping Educators, Entrepreneurs and Emerging Leaders working to build a better world at school, work, business and community... through the advancement of Character, Purpose and Unity. I help nobilize leadership, mobilize mission and humanize culture. I hold conversation around same, and advance action towards. It is what unites us... and I am The Unity Guy. Let us Aim High.

• The LECturn is a more random initiative offering up thought for Leaducators, Emergents and Communitrepreneurs around Character, Purpose and Unity as 3 fundamental forces for leadership at home, school, work, business and community. The articles are relatively shorter, surgical and value-driven for real time and the real-world.... drawing on 44 years in leadership training and development.

• Through my work, I offer what I call Free Thought, including random and regular blog articles, two newsletters, and TUGtv... all free and ad free. They serve who I call Leaducators, Emergents and Communitrepreneurs.

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