When it comes to wellness success, there is a simple 7 step formula to follow. It’s easy-peesy. But like most things that are good for your personal progress, health, wellness and overall success in life: the steps are easy to-do, but also easy Not to-do.
It’s in the Doing that the success happens.
Step 1. Show-UP! Show-up for you, show-up for your life, show-up for success.
Showing up requires 2 things: Hope and Intension for success.
Showing up means: preparing yourself to Make it Happen by bringing the right attitude, and living your life so you can enjoy the possibilities.
So wake-up, get-up, get dressed, put a smile on your face, have Hope, get your head on straight, and show-up for You.
Step 2: Be consistent: It’s not what you do once in a while that matters, it’s what you do most of the time that counts.
If you are eating 80% clean, whole (living) food most of the time, you can enjoy 20% of “fun.” The 80% good outweighs the 20% bad. One “bad” meal wont outweigh a week healthy eating, just like one “good” meal won’t outweigh a week a unhealthy eating.
Exercising daily for 5 days, and taking the next day off wont get you out-of-shape, just like resting for 5 days and exercising for 2 day wont get you in-shape.
Taking your supplements “when you remember” wont be as effective as a consistent daily regimen and opportunity to help yourself.
Skipping hormones because you get busy and forget wont be as healing or helpful to you as a daily treatment plan to support and rejuvenate your body and energy.
It’s what you do consistently that matters. If you aim for consistency, the odds for success will be in your favor.
Step 3: Have a Positive Mental Attitude (PMA): If intension reflects what is in the heart and soul, then PMA reflects the internal conversation we have with ourselves–the way our mind talks to us, and the way we talk to ourselves. Training your mind to tell you good things, have good thoughts, and keep on a positive tract can be challenging. I use my 5 Daily Do’s to help keep my PMA in check.
Step 4: Be Committed for a Long Period of Time: We often overestimate what we can do in one day or one week, and underestimate what we can do in 6 months or one year. For example, most people will abandon a weight-loss goal if they havent lost significant poundage in a week, whereas if they kept this insane persistant focus for a month, they would achieve significant loss, and if they persisted for 6 months or even a year, they would achieve their goal in remarkable fashion. The point is this: It takes more than a day to lose weight. It takes more than a week to recover from adrenal fatigue. It takes more than 21 days to create healthy habit. Keeping this insane persistant focus over-time, and maintaining a long-term perspective will generate success. When working towards wellness, you need the essential daily short-term goals (exercise, breathe, eat vegetables, drink water, sleep, etc), but you also need longer-term goals (21 days, 90 days, 6 months, and 1 year) to maintain your perspective and achieve life-changing success.
5. Have Faith and Burning Desire: Know what you want, and have a burning desire to possess it. Faith, Trust, Belief, Hope, Courage–all words that are necessary to achieve your wellness goals. Faith is belief in things unseen, a knowledge that they are real. Have faith in your goals, and even better, have faith in You. A burning desire is the best way for me to describe what I call: insane persistent focus. The internal desire to get there. All of your energy is focused on this success. And your energy + focus makes it happen.
6. Be Willing to Pay the Price: Success doesnt just happen. It is made through hard work and sacrifice. That’s the price we have to pay to achieve our goal, and to achieve any goal. Maintaining a healthy weight, achieving hormone balance, healing an unhealthy gut or taxed adrenal system, and achieving healthy aging dont just happen. There is a goal, a plan, sacrifice, paying the price, and then success!
To be healthy, you must pay the price: You must sacrifice. You must do things that you don’t want to do (i.e. exercise). You must give up things that you are addicted to (sugar and soda). You must learn new ways to “love” yourself aside from sugar, salt, caffeine, fast food and negative self-talk.
For example: Avoid the soda, and drink water. Exercise, move your body and sweat. Eat your greens, fruits, nuts, seeds, vegetables, and avoid processed, preserved, dead food. Limit sugar and find a healthy way to enjoy treats.
7. Practice Integrity: Integrity is not a conditional word. It’s meaning doesnt change with the occasion. It’s meaning is consistent regardless of the circumstance. You must practice integrity–and you must maintain integrity with yourself. Integrity means that you do what you say, and say what you do. You are honest. That you do your best. Living in integrity is essential to your health, wellness, happiness, and success. So keep your promises to yourself. Be honest with yourself, and do what you say you are going to do.
Bonus step: Let it Go: Let go of what no longer serves you. Forgive yourself when you fall off the wagon, or fall short of your goal. Love yourself through your human experience, get back on track (re-route) ASAP, and keep moving forward with insane persistant focus.
Practicing these 7 steps, plus bonus step #8, will help you to keep moving forward and make your wellness success happen!
And remember:
Everyday matters, because what you do everyday matters. But tomorrow is another day, and another chance to get it right 🙂
Keep moving forward, make it happen!
Live Live Optimally,
Kristie
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Kristie is a wife and mother of 4 and an athlete. She has been working in healthcare for more than 25 years. Kristie’s goal is to assist her patients to achieve and maintain an exceptional level of health and life-balance. She successfully blends prevention, optimization, hormone therapy, and age management with balanced and healthy living into her progressive wellness and integrative medical practice. Read more
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