Why does setting mental wellness goals matter?

While workplaces and businesses set clear business goals, wellness is often ignored as a fundamentally important goal. Wellbeing, and especially mental wellness, is something that intentionally sets the workplace culture.?

When people have fit and healthy minds they properly focus on your business goals. Also, a fit mind is keen to keep a healthy body.

A fit mind equipped with practical intrapersonal skills is capable of leading others. A trained mind knows what to focus on at any given moment to achieve actual business goals.

Setting individual?mental wellness?goals and obtaining proper intrapersonal skills for securing mind health will allow your team to thrive.

When there is mental wealth, actual wealth can be created and good personal relations will also follow.

Lack of mental wellness as a reason for low productivity

As I have explained in many Wellness Orbit blog posts, lack of mental wellness leads to?low productivity and employee engagement?levels.?

A systematic proactive mental wellness approach for everyone in your team is one of the most sensible investments.

According to Deloitte, such investments bring up to tenfold returns.?Most of this?tenfold ROI?arrives from improved productivity and the removal of presenteeism.

What is important here is the fact that reduction of work-related stress prevents employee burnout, mental health issues, and even physical health related diseases (including cardiovascular problems, tensions in the body, etc).

Investment into the mental wellness of your staff thus makes a great business case.

Setting mental wellness goals

The question is,?have you and your team set clear mental wellness goals?

Often mental health approach at work is either a short time activity in case of existing problems or campaign based. For example, during a global mental health day, a short discussion of the problems happens and then the whole topic is forgotten until the next problem or campaign day arrives. What if this would be the case for physical health?

What if we talked about the importance of physical health only once a year? Or focused on keeping our body well just once a year? It would sound unreasonable!

That is why we push the?mental wellness revolution with the Wellness Orbit team.

The current path isn't sustainable

Neglecting (y)our mind health always leads to business loss.

It also leads to a toxic workplace culture. Most of the bullying and bad (work) relations get have roots in our automatic inner reactivity.

When your mind is reactive, it is open to stress, burnout, anxiousness, depression, anxiety, and other mental health issues.

When an average mind meets a stressful event, it often reacts and thus suffers.

Only a fit and trained mind can meet challenges with inner peace and even deal with traumatic events without individual emotional suffering.?For an untrained mind post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a result of such a sudden event.

We as people and team leaders tend to overlook the importance of a trained mind and the personal sustainability it brings along.?

Removing inner reactivity is possible

When you are unaware of your inner triggers, you always will get triggered.

Read that again.

Only when you become aware of your inner triggers and replace reactivity with an aware response will you have inner freedom and?inner calmness.

A calm-minded person with excellent intrapersonal skills can deal with any challenge.

Stress is always caused by inner reactivity. Stressors are out there, but stress is your reaction. It is your automatic (subconscious) inner reaction.

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When your mind has inner calmness and possesses excellent intrapersonal skills, you notice the danger and trigger(s) but have intrapersonal skills to observe and choose your response.

This allows you to meet the challenge wisely (by responding with awareness) and thus avoid personal trauma.

On both physical and mental levels, it comes down to having practical skills. Skills that you have trained in your body and mind. Without such training, life throws you a hardball.

However, the same intrapersonal skills that keep your mind well are also productivity and engagement tools for you and your team.

A fit mind cares,?focuses, and can access creativity at will. Just as a fit body can take on physical action without suffering from pain that is pound to come to untrained muscles after heavier action.

Proactivity as your benefit

Stress, burnout, anxiety and even depression, and many other mental health issues are fully preventable. However, prevention should start when people are well.

You make a business plan when you want to see improved results. You don't wait until you come to the edge of bankruptcy to start with a business plan and setting of actionable goals. However, that is how we currently deal with our mental health in most workplaces.

In today's workplaces, people look at their mental health after they face (serious) problems. That is why we see?poor mental health statistics?worsening year after year.

When would it be enough?

9 out of 10 people at workplaces are already stressed.

Do we need to wait for 99 out of 100?

Who will guide us when everyone is unwell?

Why do most workplaces accept?low employee engagement levels?and huge mental health losses? Probably it is just ignorance and lack of awareness of how great and profitable are mental wellness investments.?

Conclusions

Setting business goals should include setting mental clear mental wellness goals. As we work with our heads, we need fit minds to work and live well.?

A fit mind naturally assumes personal responsibility and is aware of how to integrate personal life and work into a holistic one.

A fit mind is aware of its limits, spots dangers, and dares to tell the truth and face challenges. A fit mid is proactive and can thrive.

And a business that consists of fit minds equipped with excellent awareness-based intrapersonal skills can be at least 3 times more productive.?

Fit-minded people take personal responsibility and make up sustainable workplaces. In such workplaces, stress levels are low and workplace culture thrives.

In such workplaces, people care about themselves, their colleagues and their customers. ??