By Cari Junge
Spot of the Week: Lifestyle
Spot of the Week: Lifestyle
PART 1:
As we close out a 9-month Life-Cycle, this is the perfect time to introduce a Self-Treatment Tool you can begin to use from here on out (that means every September for the rest of your life).
If you’re like me, some of you may need to take the same pill for the rest of your life or at least until sciences find another remedy. That’s a tough one to swallow from my perspective but this forever dose doesn’t weigh on me nearly like that pill does.
Your first step in accepting this tool is to go in knowing it won’t taste bad. It may stuff you up a bit going down but by simply addressing and feeling it doing its work; shifts will happen.
The pill is called Awareness.
I promised last week I would share with you the impact clutter or chaos in our environment can have when order is needed for optimal performance and healthy lifestyle. I’d be doing you a dis-service if I jumped right into sharing experience and guidance without providing you the tools for successfully ridding residue before your mind starts to force.
Let’s start today with reference to our dictionary, thanks to Encarta, of common terms so we begin at the same starting line:
“LIFESTYLE”
1. Manner of living; the way of life characteristic of a particular person, group, or culture.
Using the “mini-word” approach:
1. Existence in Physical World.
“STYLE”
1. Way of Doing Something- a way of doing something, especially a way regarded as expressing a particular attitude or typifying a particular period.
We surely get more flavor with the “mini-word” combinations as we move into Step #2 in just a moment. A few more definitions:
“CLUTTER”
1. Disorganized Mess- a condition of disorderliness or overcrowding or chaos or confusion.
“QUALITY”
1. Standard- the general standard or grade of something or someone.
Use the above definitions and your years of Living Life to take the following personal assessment on your Current State of Clutter (CSC Levels) in your life. It may take you a few weeks to clearly establish confidence in these rankings, so I’m giving you until the 4th week of October to live, listen and feel before I provide feedback for your results- the Sweat of the Matter (PART 2: Why Clean House with Shades On?!) …
NOTE:
1. Don’t rush this.
2. Give yourself time to relax and clear your head before you jump in.
3. Cross-check your answers at different days, times and moods. You’ll be amazed at how that last one has an effect on the big picture.
On a scale of 1-10 (1 being low, 10 being high quality), apply a quantitative measure to your feel for your Quality of Life here and now ________ (ie. 7 of 10)
Question #2:
Using the same rating system, apply a quantitative measure to your feel for each of the following life attributes relative to quality, comfort and wellness:
a. Home (physical environment) _______
b. Work (environment, satisfaction, balance) _______
c. Other Environments (if you spend more than 2-hours per day in one place) _______
d. Car or Means for Transportation _______
e. Purse or Carry-all _______
f. Technology (voicemail, email inbox, etc…) _______
g. Brain (overall confidence, clarity, effectiveness) _______
h. Body (overall health, performance, diet) _______
i. Social Circle (those you spend time with outside of work) _______
j. Time (overall quality of time spent when out of work) _______
k. Sleep (balanced between hours you get and quality of sleep) _______
l. Conviction or religion or belief system _______
m. ‘You’ (how you see yourself managing the above) _______
Other (iconic impacts in your life that cause a physical or mental response)
n. ___________________
o. ___________________
Until next month’s Sweat content, please join me for next week’s In the Spot-Light feature, given our 5th week of the month. Take advantage of the bonus time to clutter-clear before October- see you then a little lighter!
Cari Junge
Nutrition & Therapy Director
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