Do you ever feel like this? You know what you need to do to take care of your health. You may even be an expert at preaching it. But you find it’s a lot harder to actually do it.
I know I’m far from alone when it comes to this disconnect between what we know and what we do instead. It’s frustrating, isn’t it?
Well, I don’t know about you, but I’m ready to step up and play an even bigger game when it comes to my wellness.
Now, I admit that overall I do pretty well. I usually get enough sleep, exercise fairly regulary, and mostly use green and non- toxic cleaning and personal care products.
My big battle, however, is my ‘addiction’ to junk food and extra portions. I was raised to associate food and eating (big portions, of course) with love and comfort and rewards. And what about all those starving children?
Yes, I’m willing to take responsibility and change my programming and habits, but it’s proving to be more challenging than I hoped!
This challenge has led me in the direction of exploring how to achieve goals in a big way. I’ve learned how huge a part our unconscious/subconscious plays. Bottom line – it makes or breaks our success. We have to win this ‘inner game’ if we are going to achieve a our goals in any area of life, including health. It is a process, and it is doable.
Thankfully, as you ‘dance’ with your more challenging wellness goals, it’s good to know there are goals you can accomplish easily.
It’s tempting to think these little action steps don’t amount to much. When you put them into practice regularly, they can have a big positive impact on your health in the short – and-long term. Best of all, they require almost no effort or inner game work. Easy success!
That brings us to our new series:
How to Achieve Your Wellness and Life Goals and the Wellness Challenge
My goal for this 20 week series is for all of us, me included, to step up and take control of our health and happiness.
If you’re thinking ‘uh’ and ‘hard work’, shift that thought. Let’s do this together and let’s make it fun!
Here’s what’s happening:
Every two weeks you’ll receive an ezine with tips for achieving your goals. Our focus, of course will be on holistic wellness, but you can apply these strategies to any area of your life.
Each issue includes a wellness challenge. These are relatively simple, easy to implement, and important health tips that when practiced regularly, make a positive impact on your health.
Are you ready to take charge of your health and have some fun?
Your first challenge – Here’s what to do now.
Post a comment below sharing your top 1-3 wellness goals are (stress relief, healthy weight, green living, inner peace, you name it…). Tell us what you’d like to know about achieving your goals in particular and/or goals in general. If you know of ‘no-brainer’ easy ways to improve your health, share those too. They may show up as one of our challenges!
Then, each time you accept a challenge and take the action step, post a comment under the blog entry for that issue. Just follow the link to the blog in the ezine. Each month I’ll put your names in a hat and choose a winner. When you win, you’ll be recognized in the ezine and on the blog, PLUS you’ll receive a downloadable prize!
At the end of this challenge, I’ll draw from the names of all participants for grand prizes. The more challenges you participate in, the more chances you have of winning.
Feel free to invite your family and friends to join in. The more the merrier.
Note: Everyone is welcome to post, but you must be a member (or family member if you share the same email account) to win and receive challenge updates. Not a member yet, join here, it’s free.
My biggest goal is to stop eating junk food, especially when someone upsets me. Just last Friday my husband pissed me off and so for our evening meal I drove to the sub shop and to the grocery store for subs , soda and potatoe chips. I had to get to the post office that day also. I do wonder if I had not had to go to the post office if I would have gone to get subs etc anyway. While doing all of this I did realize it was because I was upset. So I need to stop the emotional eating. How do I stop this emotional eating?????
Hi JoAnn,
So glad you joined the challenge!
I hear you! Have to confess to doing some junk food soothing myself at times! There are pages up on the main site about emotional eating. The links are in the right hand column of the home page under ‘new pages’. And tap, tap, tap.
Val
Where to begin. my top 3 are healthy weight, stress relief and pain relief. I’m in search of alternative treatments been through conventional and lets say more harm was done which lead to weight gain and other damages to my body. on top of my fibro. I was in car accident with several injuries that I’m dealing with now since dec. 10th, 2011. I’m so frustrated and need some help. Stress I’ve been dealing with some stressful events and had to deal with some traumatic events in the past 7 years. any tips would be greatly appreciated! Thanks
Hi Stephanie,
Congrats to you for joining the challenging. Sorry to hear about your accident. Did you download EFT for Clearing Pain? If so, I’d love to hear how it worked for you. Be persistent with it.
Stay tuned and in the meantime, visit the stress relief primer on the main site for lots of tips to relieve stress.
Val
Hi Val! I just came across your web site a couple days ago and I absolutely love it. Thank you for sharing so many important and life changing ways to benefit body, mind and spirit. I may be too late to enter this challenge, but I will share my goals. I worry a lot and am trying to live more in the present moment. Would love to meditate more, use energy tapping and meridian work to help my energy flow more freely. I would love to be able to stick to a daily routine of giving myself healing time every day. Definitely want to work on a more peaceful and positive mind, and a healthy body and spirit. Thanks again for sharing!
Hi Brook,
You’re not too late at all – we’re just getting started. Thanks for sharing and happy you’re joining us!
Hi All
My goals would be to eat healthier, try to avoid high processed food, to be more active,
and to be a more positive person.
Greetings to All,
There are many areas in my life I would like to improve so choosing a few to start with is not too hard. First and foremost I would love to eliminate some of the stress factors in my life. By choosing and implementing a few of the offerings on this site, I will have the opportunity to focus on those instead of the negative. My intention is to learn to relax during the stressful times and to lose a few of the pounds I put on over the winter that forgot to leave with the snow. This is a wonderful site with so many opportunities to bring about change. I am so surprised to find it is all free. What a blessing Val is to all. Thank you Val for this wonderful place we can all come to for comfort and knowledge.