Your Vision for 2022

Are you 100% satisfied with how you look and feel? I’m not! Nearly 80% of us would say no.

On the week between Christmas and New Years, I often clear my schedule to review the year past and to look ahead to intentions for the new year. This isn’t your traditional New Years resolution but rather a dedication to a continual process of growth that I have enjoyed for decades. Have you paused to check in?

It is easy to get swept away in the current of obligations but as Jim Rohn said “5 years from now you will arrive.” Will it be where you want it to be?

I ask again… are you 100% satisfied with how you look and feel? You have 3 options. Ignore it, accept it, or improve it.

Ignore it and its reminders will materialize in family photos, annual doctor visits, or a recurring ache in your head, heart, or gut. Though each time it does you’ll be a little farther from being able to do anything about it.

Accept it and you may come to peace with your dissatisfaction robbing it of its power. That’s more than half the battle. But if what you’re accepting has underlying issues and contributes to chronic disease you won’t escape its consequences with acceptance.

Improve it and you may not beat it entirely but even small wins in energy, weight management, and healthy lifestyle habits can add significant value to the quality of your life. Accept the choices you’ve made to bring you to this dissatisfaction and work gracefully to improve it and you’ll earn the greatest biological and psychological rewards.

Are you 100% satisfied with the way you look and feel? Are you ready, willing, and able to do something about it? If you are already doing something about it then perhaps you’re ready for yet another step toward the result you feel you deserve (and need to be satisfied).

If you’re satisfied with your dissatisfaction then read no further. However, if you ARE ready, willing and able to invest a little attention then we need to get clear about what satisfaction looks like and why it is so important to you.

Over the next several weeks in an effort to help you move forward from the holidays I’ll be sending and posting health coaching tips and tools to get and keep your mind in the right place. Play along with me from home or in the gym.

Start here:

Paint a picture…. Close your eyes and imagine you at your best. What do you look like and feel like? Describe it in vivid detail. Who are you with? What are you doing (that you might now be doing now)?

What are the most important elements of that picture? These may very well be your “why”. All action revolves around them.

Write it down somewhere! Feel free to share as much or as little as you’d like with me.