You can spend a long time struggling to build a wellness foundation. The resistance you face can cause leaks, backsliding, and the firing up of multiple back-burners. I often highlight the importance of building the deepest, most secure foundation possible. That does not mean I am not aware of practical difficulties and sticking points. When wellness efforts stall and multiple earnest efforts have failed to yield results, you may have to use a temporary, dynamic and atypical construction. A foundation is vital. The most vital element of all is your life itself, however. Ultimately, you must take whatever steps necessary in order to counter the temptation to abandon wellness efforts in the face of a serious lack of results.
When I speak about wellness building, while we are building up discrete aspects of wellness or isolated concerns, ultimately all of us are laying the bricks of the foundation of our lives, the very quantity and quality of it. In other words, the strongest foundation, provides the highest quality and most durable building. The roof stays up as long as possible, and it can best withstand the elements.
We must not abandon the site of our most vital construction, however, no matter the difficulties. Keeping in mind that you will always revert to the ultimate strategy of building the firmest foundation, you must not go an indefinite time without wellness shelter, and you must not abandon your efforts. In the most difficult cases, I recommend pitching a wellness tent.
Rather than allow episodes of wellness sabotage, or unhealthy habits create enough of a sense of pointlessness or impossibility that you abandon your wellness efforts, instead act. Act to put into motion random acts of wellness. Forget or a while about wellness foundation, or what is sustainable. Hit back from random angles. For example:
- Eat only raw food for a day.
- Throw away your cigarettes without a plan, right now, and go for a bike ride.
- Spend one hour trying to banish frustration and anger and think about kittens.
- Drink 10 glasses of water. In one day.
- Commit to getting up at 6:30 and jogging one block, then decide whether to make it two, or go back to bed with a micro-win.
- Journal at least two sentences today.
- Trim your toenails
- Buy some fruit and then wash it, then put it in a bowl at your desk with some napkins.
- Switch ONE coffee for an raw veggie smoothie.
- Sign up and attend a free consultation.
- Breathe, Just breathe, for two complete minutes.
Create wellness momentum, with or without expectation of sustainability. Act in your own favor in spite of the things that you hate that you do. Although you should never give up on the foundation, sometimes it is good for you to just run for any cover you can find.
Build well,
Crc
