The Well You Philosophy

Destination Mailbox 148 is a personal benchmark for this Well You practitioner. Earlier this year, the decision was made for continuing encore professional development. The continuing education curriculum was not available online, professor led or required a textbook. Instead, the chosen course was an encore life experience designed to test physical, mental and emotional aptitude by registering for my first altitude 12 mile run at the Dirty 30 in Colorado. Realizing this decision overwhelmingly mandated particular requirements for proper training, I set forth creating a plan. The goal was realistic and based on my personal desires. Training presented challenges from fatigue, weather constraints, right alongside self-limiting beliefs. As the hills got step, I hiked with resolve. When the trails were muddy, I didn’t allow the shoe to get sucked in the mud. As the birds sang and the breeze whispered, I listened to an “inner” voice speak with confidence and encouragement. Grateful for resilient fortitude, perseverance reigned.

The Well You professional has established goals for career growth and success. Regular benchmarks are identified as a designation of completed action from signature accomplishment. The Well You professional understands the importance of showing up daily prepared to thrive with a complement of personal and professional goals. The Well You professional adapts regularly to the rigors, stress, and difficulties career development may impose. This adaptation is the cultivation of resiliency. Would you consider yourself resilient? When you are passed over for the promotion or pay increase you thought was deserved, do you resort to feelings of negativity or anger? Or do you choose to learn from the disappointment, furthering to learn with forward growth? The Well You professional is able to surpass those negative feelings of disappointment by demonstrating the determination to “try again” to successfully attain their master-plan goals bringing to fruition a life filled with satisfaction, fulfillment and happiness.

Resiliency is a learned behavior. True, it may come easier for some, but is never far away for any of us. To cultivate increased resiliency, here are 3 reflections for you to consider. On a scale of 1–10 (highest) how would you score:

Change is a fact of living. In the workplace, often change is the result of leadership decisions, the economy or unintended consequences. Change can threaten an individual into retreat with resignation feeling undervalued and dissatisfied. The counter point to retreat is to prevail with an attitude of acceptance that change is unavoidable. Within each change is an unexpected silver lining. These silver linings are gifts intended for the individual to take action. Within this action is an opportunity for personal discovery. It is in this discovery, The Well You continues to develop with lifelong fortitude. During our careers, the inevitability of change impacts each of us from entry to retirement. The embodiment of change should be viewed as a catalyst for life-long well -being.

Articles and seminars are abundant on goal-setting. Goal-setting for effective time management, weight loss, and retirement savings appear in daily news feeds with high regularity. The Well You professional masterfully designs goals with one predominant outcome: “to become a friend to oneself”. Should you wonder what is meant by this statement, take a moment to examine your goals. How were they established? You may not even have any. Why not? Too often goals are based on comparisons or judgments of others, not as true representations of what is desired in our own life from our own efforts. The Well You professional has a healthy nurturing relationship with her/his own thoughts. The most intimate relationship available is between our own mind and our own thoughts. Found deep with these thoughts are fundamental pieces, when knitted together design the master plan of our lives for joy and fulfillment. The time and energy invested to build a relationship with your inner thoughts can give way to meaningful goal setting.

The Well You professional prefers not to rely heavily on the employer’s health plan or Medi Care. A personalized health plan, including proper nutrition and physical activity, is an individual responsibility. As stated above, change is inevitable for our body. Active pursuit of a fulfilling vocation requires a healthy mind, body and spirit life-long. The resilient individual acknowledges there will be challenge and reduced physical stamina as the years advance. Business success can be positively influenced with workplace wellness programs. Each of us are in the business of “body building”. Think about it for just a moment. No, not competitive body building. Though, for some the sport of “body building” is an avenue for empowerment and personal achievement. The body is a responsibility life-long. The human body is the most incredible super computer in existence. Designing a daily practice of care for our body is key for developing an individualized health plan. Manifesting professional and personal success is best led with a healthy body.

Oh how I have celebrated each time my feet crest the last rise to see Mailbox 148! May this shared example encourage you to explore and further The Well You waiting to be discovered. What benchmark are you ready to set today? I would enjoy hearing your experiences in becoming a Well You practitioner.

To contact me directly: mary@coreviewcoach.com

As an Integrative Health Coach, I take seriously practicing what I encourage with clients. Continuing to foster a deep meaningful relationship with “self” is the basis of The Well You philosophy. Thank you for reading to the bottom of this article. Hopefully, by now, you are able to glean a sense of how you may incorporate The Well You philosophy into your life becoming the best version of yourself.

May you be happy, healthy and whole, Mary

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