Health and Wellness

"Let us be about setting high standards for life, love, creativity, and wisdom. If our expectations in these areas are low, we are not likely to experience wellness. Setting high standards makes every day and every decade worth looking forward to." Greg Anderson

What's the big deal? Everything about you and your life rises and falls with your level of wellness. Whether you're in a business for yourself, even a stay-at-home business like internet network marketing, or have a typical job that requires your regular attendance, your ability to perform is a function of your wellness. Your family's well being is a function of your wellness...and of their overall level of wellness. Wellness is something you don't think much about until you don't have it.

How do you define wellness?

Wellness! What's all this stir about wellness? What constitutes wellness anyway? Is there a differerce between health and wellness, or are they complementary terms? If I'm not sick, I'm well, right? What's the big deal?

Great questions. Wellness is rather an all-embracing term, and regrettably, hardly anyone has ever truly experienced wellness in their lifetime--or if they have, it was so long ago that they've long since forgotten what it is like to be truly healthy and well. And no, simply being "not ill" doesn't mean that you are well.

True wellness has become so elusive that many conditions that would define one as "not well" are now so common that they are considered normal. World-renowned economic expert, Paul Zane Pilzer, writes in The New Wellness Revolution (Second Edition), "Modern medicine tells them [us] to accept headaches, stomach distress, body pain, fatigue, arthritis, and thousands of other common [emphasis mine] ailments as inevitable symptoms that afflict an aging population."

Wellness is a pretty extensive and inclusive term. Wellness includes topics such as:

Intellectual and mental clarity, focus, alertness, and memory

Consistent vitality, energy, endurance, and staying power

General sense of well-being

Positive mindset, that is, a better attitude

Body weight/shape/lean-to-fat ratio

Active libido without functional limitations

Sound sleep, feeling invigorated upon awaking

Flexibility, agility, freedom from joint/muscle pain

Problem free digestion and daily elimination

Unrestricted breathing, greater endurance, and rapid recuperation

For added assistant in your understanding of wellness, I've designed an uncomplicated appraisal that will permit you to measure your state of wellness as of the present moment. Simply read each statement, apply the scale of 1 to 5, where 1 is very poor and 5 is excellent, and candidly rate your sense of well being. Click here for the appraisal.

Won't it be interesting to determine how "well" you really are? Be encouraged--no matter how you score with this assessment instrument, there is a clear track for improvement--and often with amazingly rapid improvement. For more about that, call the number on the assessment.

Remember, lifestyle, rather than years, is the fundamental causal factor in determining one's wellness.