A thriver's guide to physical health and wellness
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Many of us didn’t become who we are because of our jobs, we got our jobs because of who we are. The number one goal at Lane 8 Mid Life Celebration is for you to think differently about work life balance…
Why should we give three cheers for our work life balance struggles? Because the struggles we are working through today are developing our strength for the ones we”ll face down the road.
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Be one. For yourself. You more than deserve it.
Bad habits unwittingly sabotage our odds for work life balance. We don’t develop bad habits on purpose. But what we accept by default becomes our standard, even if it has negative outcomes.
The most important goal then, is to reverse the process. I finally had a conversation with myself and said, “If you know this, why aren’t you changing?”
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Most people contemplate "Y" balance is important. Sadly, few deliver on it. "Y"?
Balance is often wrongly measured in time spent doing different things. I propose it’s more about the energy spent, not time. For example, we can’t exercise anywhere close to the hours we work each day. But we can make sure that we are consistently exercising every week, 20-60 minutes each time. And by consistently, I mean 3-5 days a week. Every week. All year long. Year after year.
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In a perfect world, what does balance look like in your life?
There is one key to balance and only one, no matter what any guru tells you. Here’s the crazy thing, most people completely disregard it. You don’t need a guru, or even me, to tell you how to achieve balance.
All you have to do is ask yourself a simple question, “Do I feel like there is a decent semblance of work life balance in my day to day life?”
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Who's responsible for our answers?
What helps me balance work and life is learning how to balance the five big life categories: mind, body, spirit, money, hq.
What are you big life categories? Basically, I’m asking if you think there are more or less than the five, or if any of the five and be combined.
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It may close. It may not. You never know. Control the controllables, like your reaction to a full park.
There are things we can control and things we can’t, and most of our work life balance problems challenges stem from our lack of discerning which is which.
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It embarrasses me (for others) how obvious it is.
The answer to this post’s question is brutally simple, “How can I not?”
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Blinding light to the left...
Some things in life are so painfully obvious we have to look away or we’ll be blinded by their brilliance. Can I get an amen for common sense?
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The transferable approach should not be nearly as hard to see as the second insect (above).
Assuming you work very hard and approach your job with excellence and enthusiasm, then you have a perfectly transferable approach to your health and wellness efforts.
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Wellness can last your entire lifetime, even into your 70's, 80's and 90's...
Dear Son, people’s expectations when it comes to exercise, fitness, wellness, and all the other superlatives associated with healthy living come down to our ability to be willing to do the hard work. Period.
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Mind, body, spirit, money, and hq...
You see four of them below. The fifth is the "box" the holds the other four...
America's unheralded work life balance expert. jeff noel, is a Servant, Husband, Dad, Boomer, speaker, author, runner. He believes work is only work if you'd rather be doing something else. Allergic to most pollens and mediocrity, he can't wait for the alarm clock to go off every morning.