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Daily Health

Guest post by: Curly Martin

Article Overview: Simple daily steps towards good health from the download to destinyTM programme on my website. This is day one.

Daily Health

Let's cut right to the chase. How do you define ‘health success?' Forget the clichés that you may have heard in seminars or read in books. This course is about your life and your health, so take personal responsibility and think for yourself. Write your answer here:

My personal definition of health is:

Here are a few thoughts to get your mind ticking over to seek more depth. A surprising number of people never actually think and plan their health. They drift along being buffeted by the marketing advertisements, time of year, climate, what others are doing, and finding themselves fat or thin, healthy or sick, without planning and deciding what they want from health. Many people go from one meal to the next and consider that walking to the shop for the lunchtime sandwich is exercise. Is this you?

A fortunate few have found that if they planned their health early in life and pointed their education towards a particular calling or vocation they could maintain a healthy life style because it is a habit for them. Some people, at quite a late stage in their lives, made a major mid-life health switch and began looking at and thinking about health in very different ways. So the first question to ask, and more importantly answer yourself, is how did you end up where you are now health-wise?

Many people simply picked up their attitudes to health from their family examples or from that of their friends, following what everyone around them does as far as health is concerned. Did YOU make the decisions about your health or was it made for you? How do you feel about this?

If you were following a health plan that seemed like a good idea at the time but now it no longer meets your requirements, what has changed to make you feel this way?

If you drifted into your health routines, how do you feel right now about stopping the drift and taking some positive action to take control of your health, your life and your destiny?

On a scale of 1 to 10, where 10 means being fully committed to changing your situation and beliefs and taking action and 1 means being not bothered, where are you now?

Already by now, you have discovered that coaching is about asking questions that you may not have considered before and finding answers that may surprise or delight you and that might even, in some cases, frighten you. This may be the first time in your life that you have given yourself permission to appear this selfish, introspective or self-centred. Do not spend too long agonising over your answers to the above questions because, usually, the first reply that comes into your mind will be the one that is most truthful for you.

If you could do absolutely anything as far as health is concerned, without any limitations, with no possibility of failure and without having to answer to anyone else, what would you do about your health? Be as specific as you can as you consider all possible health areas you could be involved in. It is okay if you begin by thinking about what you do not want to do and then turn it around. So: ‘I do not want to only eat salads all day' could turn to: ‘I do want to put healthy food regularly into my diet.'

It will help you to come up with possibilities, if you also consider the most important benefits that you want your health to provide.

For example, which of these are most important to you - slim body, good skin texture, ability to run up stairs with breath to spare, relaxing time, fun filled exercising... and so on.

Perhaps you have already revised your answer to the first question, so here is a slight variation which might give you more insight.

My personal definition of successful health is:

Now you have started the process of looking at how you see health, we will be developing this over the 30 days so that by the end of the programme you will not only know how you think and feel about health, you will also know what your healthy routines are and what to do about them!

I Strongly Recommend You Do The Accelerator Activities

The first activity is a health mantra. Repeating the mantra consistently re-programmes your mind and body. You can repeat the mantra silently or vocally, the only requirement is that you learn it and repeat it.

Accelerator Activity

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