How to Train Your Wellness: Part One – Deciding on your optimal goal

What is wellness?
We get that question often, so let’s start with that. Wellness means, the state of being in good health.
Which leads us into the meaning of health, the state of being free from illness or injury.

So, wellness is the practice of prioritizing the things that bring you good health and
preventing the things that bring you illness or injury.

Think of an illness or injury like an avoidance.
What is something that you avoid to protect your mind, body and heart?

We know, that can be a heavy question, so here's some examples: 

• Mind Avoidance - consuming social media content.
• Body Avoidance - eating fast food.
• Heart Avoidance - hanging around people who don't treat you with respect.

Next,
think about what affirmations may encourage you and prevent the avoidances.
Here's another example (we love examples!):

• Mind
  • Avoidance for the mind is consuming too much on social media.
  • Affirmation: I can strengthen my wellness by putting a time limit on my time spent on social media apps.
• Body
  • Avoidance for the body is eating too much fast food.
  • Affirmation: I can strengthen my wellness by meal prepping.
• Heart
  • Avoidance for the heart is hanging with people who don't treat me with respect.
  • Affirmation: I can strengthen my wellness by spending more time solo so that I have less expectations from others and more expectations from myself.

These would be considered practices that can help you train your wellness.

Now that we have a better understanding of wellness and how we can tap into this very important aspect of life, let's get into the topic of part one:

How to Train Your Wellness - Deciding on Your Optimal Goal

This is so important because this helps you identify your “why”. When you know why you're trying to achieve something, it's easier to do the work towards success. 
 
With that, we created another example (😊) that shows what it might look like to breakdown your optimal goal:
Example Goal: Establishing Self Confidence 

1. How?
   • Ways to achieve that goal (working out, dating yourself, journaling, therapy) and the research. Surf the internet and books for:
     • paper journaling vs. voice memos
     • therapists that support self-discovery
     • activities/events that benefit mental health
     • ideas that will help you with your goal
2. Schedule!
   • Create a schedule that helps you stay on track of taking steps towards achievement. (It's okay if it's not perfect, just start)
3. Benefits!
   • Write down the perfect ending (write yourself a letter explaining why establishing self-confidence will enhance your wellness and help you become your best self)

A four-step breakdown similar to this reveals the importance of holding yourself accountable along your journey. 

Training your wellness is hefty work and you must be intentional about it. IVO is here to help you do the work and help you to practice the behaviors that optimize your overall health/wellness.
We want to help you get started with a FREE journal page which is presented as a 30 day challenge to help you track and be consistent with one habit/practice.  Click here to access the journal page.
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​We hope How to Train Your Wellness: Part One, inspired you to commit to training your wellness! We'll be back with Part Two next Wellness Wednesday! Thank you for reading and choose well this week!

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