HELLO 2009 AND YOUR NEW YEAR'S RESOLUTIONS!

It is New Year's Day and I am confident that most of us see the possibilities of the New Year.  We see changes and upgrades for our lives that are desired and needed.  Some of us have our New Year's Resolutions already laid out and we are well-intentioned to make them happen. 

 

The questions is always HOW?  

How do I stick with my good intentions?

How do I focus my energy on what is really important to me for this new year?

Who will support me in my new resolutions?

How will I measure my progress?

How will I know when I've reached one of my goals?

GET CLEAR ABOUT YOUR VISION FOR 2009:

It's important to have a vision of what we want and to be clear about why we even want it.  

• Write down what it would mean to you - what it would look like if you were to lose the 20 pounds you're planning to lose.  
  

GET CLEAR ABOUT HOW TO FOCUS YOUR ENERGY ON THIS:

• Write down exactly how you will go about changing the eating habits that will support your weight loss
  
• Write down your first week's plan - each day's plan

I NEED SUPPORT - BUT HOW DO I ASK FOR IT?

• Write down who you will tell that you are taking this big step, and ask them to support you in this exciting undertaking.  (We don't live in a vacuum - we need support).  
• Write down what will be different (better) for you once you lose the pounds you desire to lose.
  

HOW DO I MEASURE PROGRESS, OR KNOW WHEN I'VE REACHED A GOAL?

• Review your 'vision' of how your weight loss would look
• look at your first week's plan - how well did you do with it?
• Check in with your support person, tell them how much their support helped, or where you need more support.
• Give yourself a big dose of gratitude for any steps you took that move you closer to your desired outcome.  Celebrate every step along the way.

WHAT'S NEXT?

• Write down what you're grateful for about the past week's work on your resolution and where you'd like to see improvement.
• Write down your vision and plan for the coming week
• Check in with your support person 
• Just take the next step in your plan and be sure to keep checking your progress and asking for support.

Keep going, ask for support, and have a sense of humor and good will toward yourself as you make the changes you desire.  My best to you in anything you desire to improve or change!  Oh yes, and think about how much a life coach could support you in making the changes you desire.  Call me at 402-812-8400 and we can discuss it!  My BEST to you,  JoAnn Bouda

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#12. Aging is negotiable but death is not – learn to think rationally about your own death and decide to deal with it your way with panache and as much dignity and little pain as possible. Life is about impermanence. Most people die badly, take way too long, get all maudlin about it, make lots of other people miserable and expend resources on silly services. Enjoy your family, relatives, friends and associates when you are in good spirits and active. Don’t wait to tell people you love them. Don’t delay in telling the truth. Live each day and love the life you live or live the life you love.

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#11. Prepare yourself for middle age and any age that might follow – master the keys for compressing senescence and morbidity. Middle age is a myth – it happens only to those who believe in it. Of course, eventually, we all slow down as we become much older but how much we slow at how fast a pace is up to us. Middle age does not occur when you remove the mirror from above your bed and replace it with a poster of the food pyramid. Focus not on life extension but on the quality of life in the extension. This is where the Physician Wellness Coach and Life Coach will enter as partners on your journey.

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#10. Favor pleasure seeking over pain avoidance – sustain your motivation for high performance and joy with positive incentives and payoffs. Life coaching will assist you in being coherent in your actions with your intentions. Always look on the bright side when pondering lifestyle investments. The wellness alternative is to do the right thing which is to perform sensible acts of a healthy nature that you know will have positive life enhancing returns

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#9. All forms of contemporary medicine, whether scientific or alternative, establishment or complementary, harbor elements (practitioners, modalities, remedies, procedures and customs) that are ineffective, inappropriate, dangerous, bogus and otherwise ill advised. This is why a Concierge Physician or Physician Wellness Coach is so important in your PDP. Undeveloped reasoning skills and a related predisposition to easy answers and a disdain for science create high levels of credulity and gullibility. This is why you need the Concierge Physician and Physician Wellness Coach to sort out the “new age babble, psychofacts and synthetic truths.”

Five Steps to Maximize Your Healing
Treatment
The art of applying, sequencing and performing remedies with the intent of effecting a healing, often multidisciplinary, and always involving the participation of the patient.
Diet
A regulated selection of food and drink that maintains weight provides adequate nutritional foundation to recover from remedies and gives pleasure to the consumer.
Exercise
Any activity that requires physical and mental exertion that results in some shortness of breath and perspiration performed to develop and maintain physical fitness.
Attitude
A state of mind or feeling arrived at through individual effort that sees the future as positive and the remedy as effective. It is also protective for unwanted interference and harmful emotions.
Spiritual
A non-tangible or material power that pervades all things and a source of comfort and energy for those who join with it to guide, enhance and empower their lives.

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#8. Assess and upgrade your personal vital signs. How much you weigh is not very important, at least for your health. It might be for your self concept. What matters far more than fat is body composition and functional capacity, particularly resting heart rates, recovery rates, flexibility, muscle strength and other physical performance parameters. Switch your focus from fat to muscle. Know your waist to hip ratio and BMI as well as your cholesterol and blood pressure. Remember FITT and the Pyramid and become the CEO of your body. ( See the BLC exercise program and tobacco cessation program )

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#7. Choose serenity when you need it. Unmanaged stress is at epidemic levels, you can’t medicate it away, though millions surely try. Coping is impossible – there are simply way too many events and circumstances producing stress. Eventually, you will succumb (get ill, act crazy, wet your pants) to daily pressures, anxieties, fears and so on. Learn lifestyle artistry, beginning with a different mindset about stress that acknowledges that you have a choice as to how to perceive and respond to all events and circumstances that could potentially provoke the stress response Choose an outlook that enables you to be serene at a moment’s notice, no matter what. Be coherent! Learn SAHEMs (Self Applied Health Enhancement Maneuvers) like yoga, meditation, pilates, prayer, exercise, massage or mindfulness of the moment