Simple H.E.A.L.T.H.Y. Habits for Next-Level Performance, Mind, and Body Results

This is the season that once it concludes, a grand list of WISHES for the upcoming New Year follows. The greatest resolution of all is for better health.

Let’s look at being H.E.A.L.T.H.Y. in a different way today.

Happiness.

In her 2007 book?“The How of Happiness”, positive psychology researcher Sonja Lyubomirsky elaborates, describing happiness as “the experience of joy, contentment, or positive well-being, combined with a sense that one’s life is good, meaningful, and worthwhile.”

On a scale of 1 to 10 with ONE being the least and TEN being the best, how would you score your overall happiness level in 2023? If you are somewhere around the middle, what needs to be done to bring that up a few points? If it is below midline, I am saying this with kindness and love, WHO has the skills to assist you to feel better about your life and what is going on inside it?

Inconsistent levels of happiness have an inverse relationship with the quality of your life, health, professional or business advancement. No one can apply 100% of themselves in those areas without this basic human need. ?

Energy.

Energy is not just how fast you can run around the block (or to the front door of the gym when I am late for class!). Rather, it is the strength and vitality needed to sustain a high level of engagement in your life including physical or mental activity and work.

When experiencing a Zen moment, your full focus has all inner cylinders firing effortlessly as you progress easily on the task at hand. Such great energy radiates during a performance review or when selling your product or services. There is no faking it!

Abundance.

To have real abundance is to have more than you need of something. To many people, the term defaults to how much money you do (or don’t) have. It’s positive inference relates to health, love, faith, relationships, career satisfaction, personal possessions, and wealth.

You have more to be grateful for than you might realize. Notice whenever you hear or use the word “Abundance”, it creates fulfilling emotions, thoughts, and memories.

Love.

What this world needs more of. Love is an intense feeling of affection toward a person, another living thing, or anything. It also applies to being in a state of deep enjoyment for something. We all need to give and receive Love. It creates bonds for belonging, being accepted, understood, and valued within the community of human beings.

There is a poem based on this verse in the Bible that simply sums of the Meaning of Love. Not being formally religious, I find completeness in how this scripture reveals the ways Love can show up in everyday life.

1 Corinthians 13:4–8a (ESV) Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing but rejoices with the truth.

Time.

Time waits for no one. It is an un-replenishable commodity. Once it is used, it is gone forever. There is no turning back the clock for a do over. It moves at a speed that can seem too slow in certain life stages or lighting fast in others.

Your own timeline is marked by Quantum Moments, those events whose impact forever changed you. ?

For at least the past 20 years, I felt time evaporates. The day begins. In a blink, the bedtime routine is underway. There is more I want to do, places to visit, and people to help before my time is up. How about you?

Days are expensive, actively choose to spend them wisely.

Heart.

What is your Heart telling you??

According to Rollin McCraty PhD of HeartMath, who focuses his work on the Heart:

“The heart is the largest electromagnetic field in the body.

Its electrical field is 60 times greater in amplitude than brain waves.

The magnetic component of the heart’s field, which is 100 times stronger than that produced by the brain, ……. can be measured several feet away from the body.”

The latest research has shown the impact of the Heart’s electromagnetic field can be measured even further away.

The power of your Heart (essentially a second brain) helps you to define your WHY, encourages you to listen to its voice, and to be aware of how your field is unconsciously felt by others. That might explain the feeling of seamlessly connecting or repelled by someone newly met.

Youth.

Is youth only wasted in the young? Why must age be associated with lack of youth? To those who are young at heart (and I am a member of that club!), the secret is to never neglect your inner child. Stay curious, seek out fun, and don’t allow fears or unconscious biases to divert open-mindedness.

The assumption in adulthood is wisdom has accrued over the years. That implies learning from life’s lessons for better discernment of choices and actions, while being mindful of their consequences or impact on self and others.

My other idea is to be born old and grow young! That way we would all waste less time making (and recovering from) mistakes and hurts.

In summary, H.E.A.L.T.H.Y. can be interpreted as:

??????????? Happiness, actively seeking and finding it.

??????????? Energy, building and retaining it.

??????????? Abundance, expressing and appreciating it.

??????????? Love, feeling and giving it.

??????????? Time, using it wisely.

??????????? Heart, developing and sharing it.

??????????? Youth, redefine it.

To achieve your best at home, at work, or in your business, everything starts with how the inner you shows up in the outer world.

"Your mind is your world. Your heart is your nature. Your soul is your universe. Your life is your creation." Unknown

Refining or redefining those for yourself can be a daunting task in which I am happy to help!

What a complete Lucky 7 letter 2024 resolution!

FOCUSING Leaders forward with success,

Donna

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