My well-being checklist

Last week, I identified a few things which give me energy and contribute to my well-being. Turns out that was just scratching the surface!

Questions began to form in my mind. What could I ask myself about my well-being – in order to lean into my personal agency?

Turns out there was much more I could control.

I could see this as the basis for my lifeboat – maybe it is even the first aid kit.

Here’s a few of the questions I can ask myself:

1. Am I listening to my body and my mind?

2. Am I moving my body?

3. Am I eating and drinking what my body needs?

4. Am I giving my body the right supplements to replenish what is lacking or needs support?

5. Am I getting enough quality sleep and rest?

6. Am I spending enough time with my strong, healthy connections?

7. Am I inhabiting the right spaces?

8. Am I talking positively and compassionately with myself?

9. Am I working with my natural instincts?

10. Am I staying in the present?

11. Am I living my personal values?

12. Am I aware of and secure in my core beliefs?

13. Am I seeing possibility and opportunity?

14. Am I being of service to others?

15. Am I asking for help?

Am I missing anything? Possibly – but I think this is a good start.

What has become clear to me is how there are many moving parts which contribute to my well-being in what some might call a complex adaptive system. A complex adaptive system, like my overall well-being, looks at how relationships between my many moving parts give rise to its collective behaviors and how my well-being system interacts and forms relationships with my environment – and has “the capacity to change and learn from experience”.

I will be keeping this top of mind as I move forward. For each question, there is much, much more to explore.

This outline will serve as a framework for me and my well-being – something I can return to whenever I need it. And trust me, I need it!

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