Wellness Wednesday Ideas
Here are a few ideas to use as themes for Wellness Wednesdays:
Create a Roadmap
One of the simplest approaches to creating rich content, that provides wellness 'prompts', is to create a roadmap of activities that help the individual or organisation to explore and refine their approach to wellness, in order to help them reach their full wellness potential. See the diagram above.
This is the roadmap for our course that we've been running with the local city council.
The course is called 'Think Backwards (to Fast Forward your Life).
Breakthrough without the Overwhelm
Often when we look for a course to help up take our wellness up a notch, the length of the course and commitment needed to complete it, creates a further sense of overwhelm, which is the last thing we need. Keep it simple.
For most, when they are trying to find a better approach or a better way forward, it involves progressing from A to B:
- from stuck to unstuck
- from muddled to managing
- from adversity to advantage
Simplicity is key!
Avoid taking the same route habitually
A typical excuse for staying stuck in a situation is as follows:
'I'd like to move from muddled to managing (A to B) but have no time to find a better way forward.'
Taking the same route habitually will lead to the same results.
Provide an alternative.
Provide a Breadcrumb Trail
Using the travel analogy, it's a great idea to provide a breadcrumb trail of steps to success allowing the 'explorer' to think backwards from their current situation, in order to fast forward their life and to propel themselves back on track.
I encourage you to come up with your own breadcrumb trail.
Benchmark the starting point: Start Here!
As the saying goes, simplicity is key to success, so provide a tool to help measure the starting point.
A simple 'Who am I?' exercise is a worthy approach; so for me that would be wife, parent, carer, home-maker, business woman, sister, friend and yogi! Then rate how you feel your performance is, in each of these roles? Where do you do well? Where could you put more effort? It helps to rate each out of 10. Looking back on this at a later date, will hopefully highlight progress.
Jar of Stars!
Provide that spark that lifts the spirit! Create a jar of stars, stickers or labels (that can be written on). Each to contain an affirmation that resonates with the individual; a wish or phrase that can be plucked from the jar, at random, whenever that feeling of being stuck or uninspired, creeps in. It's a great mood-altering practice and much kinder to the waistline than reaching for the cookie jar!
Try these suggestions and let me know how you progress.
