What Great Thing Will You Commit to Today?

Making good on your good intentions sets the tone for well-being in all areas of life. Living and expressing integrity with our self care can serve to build a healthy sense of self and personal peace. Think about how you feel when you successfully follow through on a self care goal -- whether it be a goal to get in your morning exercise every day before you head out for the day, or a goal to eat 5 servings of fruits and vegetables daily. Set yourself up for success by aligning your inner dialogue with loving encouragement. Move through your day being mindful of balance and peace. Choose and act in ways that fully reflect your truth and your highest expression. The foundation for a successful life of joy and well-being is built by being consistent with showing up in your integrity.

When you are setting goals and intentions for growing your well-being, the way to success can be made more realizable and reasonable thru aligning with the following tenets for transformation:

v    Build the landscape

When you surround yourself on the outside with the images, sounds, and experiences of the vision that you desire to create you set the tone and the attractive forces on the inside to bring them into actualization on the physical plane. Use the “law of exposure” by decorating your life with pictures of people, places and images of things that inspire you. Place these positive props strategically where you will see them and be reminded of who you really are and your intentions to live your promise – on the bathroom mirror to see while you brush your teeth first thing in the morning, at your work station, on your night stand, any and all places that you go. 

v    Commit to yourself

A most empowering and important relationship to leverage to get the results that you are looking for is the relationship that you have with yourself. I love the distinction between motivation and inspiration when it comes to getting on with getting going. Motivation typically comes from outside of ourselves and is not always sustainable. Whereas inspiration comes from within and can always deliver the encouragement and support needed. Get clear about what gives you life, what turns you on and  attach that inspiration to your commitments and clear the way to successful outcomes!

v    Engage your inner coach and fire the inner critic

Ask yourself if you BELIEVE that you are all about making the shifts in your beliefs and in your actions that will give you the experience of successful self care. You can reinforce positive, new unlimited beliefs by practicing the art of mental hygiene-letting go of old limiting beliefs and patterns of thought. Envision each belief that does not serve you and your truth as being effortlessly dropped or kicked into the dumpster with zeal! Another way to give the inner critic a free pass out of your head is to align with the truth. Set your intentions on what you desire, remember who you really are. Now, move into that expression with grace-filled enthusiasm!

v    Get comfortable with being uncomfortable

Even healthy, life affirming changes can be uncomfortable and sometimes painful. The experience of growing more well by incorporating new and improved lifestyle and mindfulness techniques takes courage as you move into uncharted territory where it can be all too easy to want to retreat back to what is familiar. It is interesting how we might desire to turn to comfort food when we are feeling less than wonderful?. Moving forward, challenging old paradigms of being is a trust walk and faith is required. A powerful practice to ignite movement towards a wellness practice is to begin with end in mind. See yourself having successfully completed that DVD exercise program; the yoga class that makes you stretch; the fulfilling healthy meal; the many different and inspiring acts of self love and kindness and allow that vision to fully wash over you by using all of your senses and finally seal the experience with the feeling of gratitude and appreciation for your success!

Embrace your self care as an adventure in faith and trust. With every moment, in every thought and action you can express integrity and with this expression you can also cultivate a life of true wellness.