Converging wellness and success…
Did you know that there are people who, by all societal measurement, have achieved great success and yet don’t feel fulfilled? There are people who have experienced extraordinary “wins” in life and who sadly aren’t fulfilled in ways that actually matter.
You can be wealthy financially, yet bankrupt in other areas of your life; like your emotions, relationships, and/or health.
Unfortunately, success does not guaranty fulfillment. Setting and/or achieving a specific goal or in one area of your life may not be ultimately fulfilling if other areas of life get neglected in the process.
The good news is that you can obtain success in a healthy and happy manner by creating a synergy amongst the 6 primary areas of life.
Learning how to manage this synergy will grow the potential of each area and deeply enhance the level of fulfillment in your life. One this site, you’ll find a wealth of information and shared knowledge from some of the best experts in their individual arenas.
You also need an easy 2-part process for setting goals in each of these areas.
1- Establishing Your Identity ~ Who Are You?
When someone asks “Who are you?”, what is your answer?
Most people start with their name, then move to their job titles, etc. “Hi, my name is Mary. I’m a doctor over at St Stephen’s Hospital.” But, there’s a difference between what you do and who you are. Who is Mary really? These questions lead us to consider a deeper awareness of the inner being who lives in this body.
2- Your Philosophy ~ What Do You Believe?
Your beliefs are what’s most important to you in life.
It includes your personal philosophy, your values and beliefs about the meaning of life and key areas of life such as people, money, spirituality, education, relationships, career options, health & fitness, government, and more. Why do you believe you are here? What is your purpose? How you are presently doing that? DO you have a mission?
Clarifying your identity and philosophy in this way gives a perspective from which one can set goals in the primary areas of life. Many goal setting programs invite you to dream big and write creative lists of what you want, then narrow down from that list the ones that will be your goals for the year. This open creative thinking is a valuable and critical skill in life. It is not the basis for setting goals to make your life fulfilling here at Whole Life Hub. When you set goals based on a clear vision of who you are, what you believe, and your purpose in life, an entirely different and powerful synergy comes into play that is surprisingly effective at creating progress and fulfillment in one’s life. Looking at the big picture and how each area impacts the others is the basis for creating strategies to solve any issues being addressed.
Physical
The physical body you live in & the physical space you live in (home, vehicle, and workspace)
How fit / how healthy do you need to be? Should you look like a fitness model? At Whole Life Hub, we believe the body you live in needs a level of health and fitness that supports the actions that fulfil your purpose and mission in life. This includes the actions necessary to attain goals set in each of the other 5 areas of life.
The system involves 3 stages
- 1- Calming stress, pain, or symptoms in any body systems
- 2- Correcting imbalances that create stress
- 3- Conditioning new patterns
The body we live in addresses in part, stress / adaptation, posture, movements patterns, individualized nutritional factors, exercise, hormonal balance, breathing, hydration, rest and sleeping, digestion, cleansing and detoxification, joint function, pH, inflammation, ergonomics, immune function, blood sugar and glycemic index, movement therapies, metabolism, reproductive function, self-care remedies and maintenance strategies.
The space we live in can facilitate efficient activities to progress in life, or it can be cluttered and hinder our progress toward stated goals. The physical design and organization of these spaces can allow us to feel blocked and restricted or open, creative and productive. Organizing systems and fung shui are a couple of topics to address here.
Mental
The mental area includes how we think and what we think
How we think involves decision making, our patterns of thinking, use (or even knowledge of) rules of logic in our evaluations/analysis, optimal use of words and language for precise communication, meditation to calm the mind, visualization and 3d mental imagery, memory and recall systems, thinking clearly under stress, and creativity. What we think involves content: What do we need to study/learn to attain our goals in life? What conversations, tv, books, ads, jokes we focus on and how it moves us toward our stated goals or not. At Whole Life Hub we encourage focus directed toward the attainment of goals in the other 5 PALs.
Emotional
A new perspective on how emotions happen Consider the possibility that emotions don’t just happen, when emotions effecting our decisions, the emotions that create fulfillment in life…or, values related emotions, virtues, conditioned emotional responses, lie detection clues- faces leaking emotions, your empowering emotional wardrobe, emotional management in relationships, emotions in financial management, anxiety and panic attacks
Social
The value of relationships- Fulfillment Learning /growth- other people as a feedback mechanism or mirror of who we are becoming Utilitarian (support for attainment of goals)
People in our lives: Levels of influence on our behavior: children, spouse, blood family, friends like family, org of shared values, necessary collaboration without shared values, regular contact without shared values, random contact. Quality of influence A – B – C
Relationships needed for other 5 goals,